Platform DevOps Team Lead

The Wow

The Team Lead is responsible for the execution of the implementation of the strategy, development, and operational excellence of CI/CD platforms and Internal Developer Portals (IDPs). This role ensures that engineering teams have reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure, enabling them to build, test, and deploy software seamlessly. The ideal candidate is both highly technical and an effective leader, capable of aligning platform strategy with business goals while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. This team is also responsible for, aligning with and enabling, the Developer Experience (DevEx) principle, ensuring that developer workflows are streamlined and efficient.

Your technical expertise, leadership skills, and collaborative mindset will be essential in driving the team forward.

A taster of what you will be involved with:

• Technical Leadership: Implement the roadmap for platform enablement, ensuring alignment with the organization’s objectives.

• CI/CD & Infrastructure Excellence: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of CI/CD templating pipelines, expose Infrastructure functions through IDPs, and Infrastructure automation to improve developer productivity and system reliability.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams to provide robust platform solutions and ensure best practices.

• Operational Efficiency & Reliability: Implement observability, and performance optimization strategies to maintain service KPIs and deployments efficiencies.

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, fostering professional growth and technical excellence.

• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies, driving continuous improvements in platform capabilities.

• Developer Experience (DevEx) Enablement: Advocate for and implement strategies that enhance developer workflows, automation, and overall efficiency.

• Reachability: You will be expected to form part of a 24/7 on call roster to support your engineering team during out–of–office incidents calls

What we are looking for

• Technical Expertise: Strong background with 3+ years’ experience with most of the following technologies:

• AWS 

• Kubernetes 

• Terraform/ Ansible

• CI/CD tooling: ArgoCD, Github Actions, etc 

• Helm 

• Git 

• Knowledge of best practices in IT operations, such as ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) and DevOps principles.

• Software Engineering & Automation: Proficiency in scripting and coding (Python, Go, Bash, etc.), automation, and system optimisation.

• API Development & Integration: Experience designing, developing, and managing APIs, including RESTful and GraphQL APIs, ensuring seamless integration between services and platforms.

• Leadership & Communication: Proven experience in leading and managing a team of engineers and technicians, including resource planning, workload allocation, performance feedback, and mentoring.

• Agile & Project Management: Experience working in Agile environments, managing backlogs, sprints capacity and optimisation, and driving platform initiatives efficiently.
  
  

What we offer

Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.

Challenge accepted?