Weekend Site Reliability Engineer

We consistently top the charts as one of if not the most used Sports Betting website in the countries we operate in.
With millions of weekly active users, we strive to be the best in industry for our users.

In addition to our DevOps Team we are building a Site Reliability Team whose purpose is to focus on site reliability and security. It will also involved deployment, configuration, and monitoring, as well as the availability, latency, change management, emergency response, and capacity management of services in production.

Responsibilities

• Work across the weekend and your choice of weekdays
• Work with a team of DevOps/SRE and DBA professionals
• Improve existing infrastructure and processes currently deployed in as well as streamlining processes deploy to new countries in the future
• Holistically improve all aspects of our current 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, andOpsWork 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

Requirements

• 4+ years SRE/DevOps experience
• Be based in Europe or Latin America
• Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project
• Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilize cloud resources to fulfill the demand from other teams and production
• Familiar with one program language or script language (Python, Java....)
• Experience managing multiple kubernetes clusters in production (virtualization, orchestration, scalability, security, and high availability), skillset such as Helm, Rancher, ArgoCD
• Solid networking protocol and cyber security knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol
• A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache (CloudFlare, AWS CloudFront)
• Experienced with CloudNative Monitoring solution in Large distributed system using observation model(Trace, Metric, Logging), skillset such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki, ELK, Grafana
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimization

Beneficial

• Experience working with other cloud platform is a plus. (GCP, Azure, AliCloud)
• Familiar with at least one of infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Design and implement CI/CD workflow is a plus (Jenkins, Github Action)
• Experience with system automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Chef)
• Understanding of modern Micro Services and Service Mesh concepts is a plus(Containers, Istio)

Benefits

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual company retreat
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
• Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
• Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
• Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members

Our Mission

Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone

Our Operating Principles

1. Create Value for Users
2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty
3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation
4. Be Responsible
5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty
6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy
7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability
8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride

Interview Process

• Online HackerRank Test (Max time of 90 Minutes)
• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)
• 24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Post Interview Process

• Feedback call on successful interview
• Offer released followed by contract
• ID Check Via Zinc & 2 references from previous employers

Working at Sporty

The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.
Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results.

As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to.

We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.