A gaming company have a great job opportunity for a Platform Engineering Group (PEG) Engineer to join their amazing team in Cape Town. You will administer the Online Gaming platforms, ensure optimum performance and availability, provide third/fourth-level troubleshooting support, and liaise with all applicable service providers and third parties including NOC/1st/2nd line support. Does this job seem like the perfect challenge you’ve been looking for? Keep reading!

Your key job responsibilities as the Platform Engineering Group (PEG) Engineer in Cape Town will include:

- Partake in the design and implementation of new setups
- Assist in process improvement and automation.
- Test and design new systems/services and their suitability for possible use in production environments
- Proactive monitoring and support of the live and staging infrastructure
- Investigate and react to any live or staging issues that might arise
- Prepare and take part in the periodic release of new software
- Act as an escalation point for issues flagged by customer support
- Handle service requests, incidents, problems and change requests, using ITIL best practice
- Assist in process improvement and automation.
- Assist in intensive investigations into problems that would include detailed log and metrics analysis to provide detailed analysis, resolution and future prevention of such issues

Requirements for this Platform Engineering Group (PEG) Engineer job in Cape Town:

- At least 10 years of experience predominantly in linux based environments
- All-rounder, with very good IT knowledge and especially in Linux technologies
- Possess excellent communication skills, capable of delivering information to both technical as well as
- Deep knowledge of various monitoring tools
- Detect/analyse alarms to provide fault isolation and remote troubleshooting, being a responsible individual for problems until their complete resolution
- Act as a senior technical resource for outages until restoration
- Ability to analyse logs for troubleshooting issues, including malicious activity or cybersecurity threats, code and systems errors and problems
- Experience with code repositories Github/Gitlab
- Experience with MongoDB from an administration and deployment perspective including MongoDB clusters and data replication between instances
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with DNS/HTTPS certificates