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title: 'Infrastructure Engineer at LiveScore Group'
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# Infrastructure Engineer at LiveScore Group 

- **Company:** LiveScore Group 
- **Location:** Cape Town, South Africa
- **Posted:** 2026-05-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/livescore9/jobs/8537478002

## Job description

## INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Cape Town

Hybrid working (On-site Tuesday and Thursday)

Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain is our newest addition to LiveScore Group – Wonderlabz.

With a strong legacy collective expertise, the team in Cape Town push the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges delivering inhouse gaming software to LiveScore Group of the highest quality, every time.

LiveScore Group is home to LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet and now Wonderlabz - four of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming industries today. We are passionate and excited about what we do in the Sports Media, Gaming and Betting sector and are proud of the high ratings we have achieved. We live our values, aiming to enhance and increase the enjoyment of sport through innovative products and immersive experiences. Trust is important in how we work, ensuring we are a collaborative unit who holds each other accountable. Relentlessly ambitious in everything we do, we embrace change and understand that failure is part of success.

We use our platform for positive social change and work to build a company our employees are proud to work for. We have a long-term commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our I.D.E.A (Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Awareness) Forum is critical to our business and is embedded in our organisational structure to support a sense of belonging for everyone and to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive.

## The Role

The Infrastructure Engineer’s role is to administer the Online Gaming platforms, ensure optimum performance and availability of such platform, provide third/fourth-level troubleshooting support, and liaise with all applicable service providers and third parties including NOC/1st/2nd line support. Provide technical support to all roles.

## Key Responsibilities

- 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 included detailed log and metrics analysis to provide detailed analysis, resolution and future prevention of such issues

## Skills, Knowledge and Experience

- All-rounder with proven experience in linux based environments with very good IT knowledge
- Possess excellent communication skills, capable of delivering information to both technical as well as non-technical personnel, the ability to work autonomously and in a team environment
- Detect/analyse alarms to provide fault isolation and remote troubleshooting, being a responsible individual for problems until their complete resolution
- Ability to analyse logs for troubleshooting issues, including malicious activity or cybersecurity threats, code and systems errors and problems
- Understands how to direct, support and guide other team members and knows how to motivate them with great attention to detail and acts as a senior technical resource for outages until restoration.
- Production support or implementation of Kubernetes, preferable in google managed Kubernetes environment (GKE) for at least 24 months
- Virtualisation - OpenStack, VMware, Cloud - Experience with any: Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, OpenShift/OKD
- Excellent log analysis and setup of aggregated logging systems such as Splunk/EFK and excellent networking skills including packet capture and analysis
- Excellent monitoring and metrics analysis and systems implementation such as Grafana, APM, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc… with deep knowledge of various monitoring tools and excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience with code repositories GitHub/Gitlab, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles and DNS/HTTPS certificates

What can we offer?

- Discovery medical aid
- 21 days leave
- Discretionary company performance bonus

## About LiveScore Group 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LiveScore Group converges the worlds of sports media and sports betting through its owned ecosystem of brands LiveScore, LiveScore Bet, and Virgin Bet.
- **Entity Type**: Private (privately held)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2019 (LiveScore Group formed after demerger from Gamesys; the LiveScore brand dates back to 1998)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Sports media, online sports betting, online gambling
- **Target customers**: B2C sports fans and bettors globally; also B2B advertising and software development clients
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Fuelling Fans’ Passion for Sport” — delivering a frictionless, converged experience that combines real-time sports content with a world-class sportsbook

## Products & Services
- **LiveScore**: Real-time sports scores, free-to-air live streaming (e.g., Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup), free-to-play games like LiveScore 6. Available in over 200 territories. Type: Mobile app and web platform.
- **LiveScore Bet**: Online sportsbook offering betting opportunities, launched in UK (2021), Nigeria (2020), Ireland, and briefly in Netherlands (exited 2024). Type: Sportsbook.
- **Virgin Bet**: Online sportsbook brand launched in 2019, operates in UK and South Africa (launched 2025). Type: Sportsbook.
- **B2B Services**: Advertising revenue from sports media and software development (50% YoY growth in FY25). Type: Service.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of £206.3m for FY25 (12 months to 31 March 2025), up 15.3% YoY [next.io](https://next.io/news/results/livescore-group-cuts-net-loss-fy25/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Ringier AG — £50m strategic investment in 2022 [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
  - Virgin Group — invested as a shareholder in October 2024 [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
  - Kambi — completed migration to Kambi sportsbook platform in July 2024 [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
  - X and xAI — announced a transformational partnership in 2025 [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Revenue growth of 15.3% in FY25; B2C online gambling revenue up 18.3% to £185.1m [next.io](https://next.io/news/results/livescore-group-cuts-net-loss-fy25/)
  - 45M+ LiveScore users globally [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
  - Record 165K betting actives on LiveScore Bet in 2022 [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
  - Expanded into Bulgaria (2024) and South Africa (Virgin Bet, 2025) [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/)
  - Net loss reduced from £48.9m to £28.6m YoY; EBITDA loss improved 60.8% [next.io](https://next.io/news/results/livescore-group-cuts-net-loss-fy25/)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 20.5% year-over-year to 14,020 [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/livescoregroup)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Convergence model**: Own and operate a fully integrated ecosystem where sports media content (LiveScore) drives betting engagement (LiveScore Bet, Virgin Bet), reducing customer acquisition costs and improving retention.
- **In-house tech stack**: Purpose-built, proprietary technology delivering a seamless user experience across apps and web.
- **Industry-first four-day work week**: Announced in 2025, a strong employer branding differentiator [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/).
- **Strategic partnerships**: With Virgin Group, Ringier, and X/xAI provide brand credibility, distribution, and AI capabilities.
- **Global reach**: Offices in 7 countries (UK, Gibraltar, Malta, South Africa, Nigeria, Ireland, Austria) and LiveScore available in 200+ territories.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling the convergence model in regulated markets (UK, Ireland, South Africa) while exiting less favourable markets (Netherlands, Bulgaria).
- Invest in marketing and brand building to drive user growth, particularly in the UK where revenue increased 26% in FY25.
- Leverage AI and data partnerships (e.g., with xAI) to enhance personalisation and product innovation.
- Expand Virgin Bet into new geographies (South Africa launched 2025) and deepen B2B software development revenue.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Fueled by shared passion for sports and innovation” — collaborative, energetic environment with a focus on personal and professional development [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/careers/).
- **Flexible work**: “Flexible work arrangements allow for a healthy work-life balance” [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/). Notably, the company introduced a **four-day work week** in 2025, a rare perk in the industry.
- **Offices**: Global presence with hubs in London, Stoke-on-Trent, Gibraltar, Malta, Cape Town, Lagos, and Vienna. Roles span technology, product, marketing, compliance, and commercial.
- **Tech-driven**: Engineering roles include Data Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Software Engineer — working on a purpose-built tech stack at scale.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly expanding private company with increasing revenue and improving profitability, offering career advancement opportunities.
- **Employee rating**: 3.4/5.0 on LinkedIn (170 reviews), with work-life balance at 3.4 [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/livescoregroup).

## Sources
1. [livescoregroup.com](https://livescoregroup.com/) — Company overview, milestones, office locations, convergence model
2. [livescoregroup.com/careers](https://livescoregroup.com/careers/) — Careers page, culture, four-day work week
3. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/livescoregroup) — Company details, employee count, reviews, open positions
4. [next.io](https://next.io/news/results/livescore-group-cuts-net-loss-fy25/) — FY25 financial results (revenue, net loss, EBITDA)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/livescore9](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/livescore9) — Current job openings (9 roles as of July 2026)

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