Platform(DevOps) Engineer

Sportserve; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports betting company is seeking an Engineer for their Platform Engineering team. This role offers the opportunity to influence and grow the technology infrastructure while ensuring service reliability. Ideal candidates will demonstrate a strong technical background in Linux systems, CI/CD tools, and collaborative problem-solving skills. This position promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from tech enthusiasts eager to join an innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to deep dive into problems to find underlying issues.
• Leads on live production issues.
• Proven communication and collaborative skills while working with 3rd parties.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stability and resilience of core infrastructure.
• Continuously improve existing technologies.
• Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas and innovation.

Skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Communication

Collaboration

Continuous improvement

Tools

Linux

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Grafana

Prometheus

GitLab CI

Nginx

Job description

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Sportserveforms 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.

What you'll be getting up to:

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
• Trust

Key Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications:

List of skills you 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
• 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
• CI/CD - gitlab-ci, jenkins, ansible, terraform, Helm, Fluxcd
• Web servers - nginx
• Caching - Redis
• Monitoring and Observability - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos
• Scripting - bash, python
• Virtualisation and Orchestration - docker, kubernetes
• Databases - Cloud Managed MySql

Desireable

• OS Administration - Linux - debian based flavours
• Web servers - Apache,
• Caching - Varnish
• CI/CD - jenkins, Hashicorp toolkit
• Virtualisation and Orchestration - vmware
• APIs - REST, JSON

** We only invite applications in English

Diversity & Inclusion at Sportserve

At Sportserve, we are deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe in building a team that reflects a wide array of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. Embracing diversity not only enriches our work culture but also drives innovation and excellence. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where everyone’s contribution is valued and respected.

If you’re a passionate about technology and looking to start your career in an international, forward-thinking Sports Betting company, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to become part of our exciting journey!