Lead: Site Reliability Engineering, Sandton

The Lead: Site Reliability Engineering is responsible for establishing and driving the SRE discipline within Sun International. The role owns platform reliability, availability, and performance across all production environments, ensuring the iGaming platform delivers a seamless, always-on experience for players, driving shared ownership of reliability across engineering and product teams. The role will define SLOs and error budgets, build observability and incident management capabilities, drive infrastructure-as-code adoption, and lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers. The role bridges development and operations, embedding reliability practices into the software delivery lifecycle and championing a culture of automation, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Core behavioural & Technical / proficiency competencies:

• SRE Principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, toil reduction)
• Azure Cloud Platform (compute, networking, storage, PaaS, security)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates)
• Observability & Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Application Insights)
• Containerisation & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes / AKS)
• Incident Management & Disaster Recovery
• CI/CD & Deployment Strategies (Azure DevOps, blue-green, canary)
• Scripting & Automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Security Hardening & Compliance (Defender for Cloud, PCI-DSS)
• Cost Optimisation & FinOps