Engineer (Platform Engineering) - United Kingdom - Sportserve

Description

Sportserve forms part of a remarkable group of B2C sports betting and B2B sportsbook technology companies, focused on delivering first class sports betting experiences and casino products for our users worldwide. Along with Sportion, TechSpirit, Standard Focus and Sportelligent, we are the driving force behind the world renowned sports betting company and our flagship brand, Dafabet.

Since launching our global hiring initiative, we now employ over 2,000 people worldwide, offering exciting career paths in Technology, Trading, Operations and Media. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and international culture that embraces the global community and acts locally. We offer office based, hybrid and remote work on permanent and consultancy contracts all over the world, making us the true global employer of choice.

We are looking to hire an Engineer to join our global team in Technology.

This is a challenging, fast-paced and exciting environment, with plenty of opportunities to influence and grow the technology area.

We are looking for an Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team to proactively ensure the stability, resilience and scale of our core on-prem and cloud infrastructure

The Engineer will play a pivotal role alongside all areas of technology to ensure that technical solutions are aligned across teams, deliver value to the customers as well as ensuring consistent monitoring, logging and alerting.

The key values that we strive towards in the Technology are:

• Ownership
• Continuous Improvement Mindset
• Trust
• Honesty

What you'll be getting up to:

• Take ownership and pride in the work you deliver, ensure what is delivered is of quality and takes into account security, capacity and performance
• Continuously iterate and improve on existing technologies whilst keeping up-to-date with the latest trends to keep us ahead of the game
• Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas, innovation and continuous improvements
• Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate
• Improve the team skill set by increasing and sharing knowledge thus setting the benchmark of quality and precision engineering
• Understand the importance of and be a strong advocate for non-functionals eg. monitoring, alerting, logging etc
  
  

List of skills we think you'll need:

• Ability to deep dive into problems to find the underlying issues
  
  
• Leads on live production issues
  
  
• Attention to detail, Dig into understanding what is actually needed rather than what may be requested
  
  
• Proficient in agile practices
  
  
• Advocating and practising continuous improvement and handling challenging situations
  
  
• Dealing with changes on a daily basis
  
  
• Ability to demonstrate the value of changes introduced
  
  
• Proven communication and collaborative skills while working with 3rd parties

Technical Skills:

• OS Administration - Linux - RHEL and debian based flavours
• Web servers - apache, nginx,
• Databases - mysql, mariadb-galera cluster , proxysql cluster
• Caching - redis , mem-cached, varnish
• Traffic Management - Haproxy,keepalived, Cloud load balancing etc..
• Scripting - bash , python
• CI/CD - gitlab-ci, jenkins, ansible, terraform , Helm, Fluxcd, Hashicorp toolkit
• Virtualisation and Orchestration - vmware, docker, kubernetes
• Cloud - Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
• Monitoring and Observability - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos

List of skills we'd love you to have:

• Windows, IIS, Drupal
  
  
• CDNs - CDNetworks, Akamai, Incapsula, etc..
  
  
• APIs - REST, JSON, SOAP, etc..
  
  
• Testing - Terratest, ansible molecule
  
  
• Security - OKTA, vouch proxy
  
  

**Applications in English please

Diversity & Inclusion

We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of Equality isn't just the right thing to do, it's also the smart thing.