Weekend DevOps Engineer

Sporty Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Competitive salary

28 days paid annual leave

Core hours 10am–3pm local time

Referral bonuses

Top of the line equipment

Annual company retreats

Job summary

Sporty Group is seeking a Weekend DevOps Engineer to join a team of DevOps and DBA professionals. You will cover Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays with flexible days off, while improving infrastructure and deployment processes across six countries and future expansions.

You will own cloud operations, monitor via autoscaling and Grafana dashboards, and collaborate with security agencies for audits. Mentoring juniors and adopting modern tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD will be part of your

Qualifications

• 3+ years DevOps experience.
• Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM.
• Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project.
• Solid knowledge of AWS and how to utilise cloud resources for production demand.
• Understanding of modern Micro Services and Service Mesh concepts.
• Experience managing Kubernetes, including CI/CD with Kubernetes.
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP and HTTP.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with Linux; JVM optimization beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of DevOps/DBA professionals; cover Sat, Sun and Mon as a Weekend DevOps Engineer.
• Improve existing infrastructure and processes across 6 countries; streamline deployments to new countries.
• Holistically improve DevOps infrastructure: reduce costs, streamline provisioning, improve response times.
• Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure via autoscaling, automated alerts, and dashboards (Grafana).
• Take ownership of cloud operations activities.
• Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits and perform internal sweeps.
• Aid in reconfiguring architecture to speed deployments to new countries.
• Mentor less experienced team members.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Networking

Tools

Grafana

Terraform

Docker

Job description

What you’ll be doing

• Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals; covering Saturday, Sunday and Monday (5 days in total with flexibility in your days off) as a Weekend DevOps Engineer
• Improve existing infrastructure and processes in the 6 countries we’re currently deployed in as well as streamlining processes deploy to new countries in the future
• Holistically improve all aspects of our DevOps infrastructure including: reducing costs; streamlining environment provisioning; lowering response times and incorporating the latest techniques and technologies
• Monitor and maintain the existing cloud infrastructure via autoscaling, automated alerts, and OpsWork and Grafana dashboards
• Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities
• Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits as well as perform our own internal security sweeps
• Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries
• Mentoring less experienced team members

What you’ll bring

• 3+ years DevOps experience
• Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM
• Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project
• Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production
• A sound understanding of modern Micro Services and Service Mesh concepts
• Experience managing Kubernetes, including CI / CD with Kubernetes
• Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol
• A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation, JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous

Our stack

• Languages: Java / Spring Boot, TypeScript / VueJS
• Cloud Libraries: Netflix Eureka, Netflix Ribbon, Feign, Netflix Zuul
• Database: MySQL, Oracle, Mybatis, Druid
• Cache: Redisson, ElastiCache, Redis
• MQ: Apache RocketMQ
• Tasking: Elastic Job
• Server: Netty
• LoadBalance & Proxy: Nginx
• Virtualization: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher
• Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3
• Maintenance: AWS Opsworks, Salt, Chef
• CI/CD: Drone, AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins
• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch
• Logging: ELK, Rsyslog, Log4j2
• CDN: Cloudflare

What’s in it for you

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
• Top of the line equipment
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview process

• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Online assessment via Hackerrank
• Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)