DevOps Engineer

Sporty Group

Partnered with some of the World’s greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we’re on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of the 'Top Ranked Fastest Growing and Most Successful Online Gaming Brand in the World'. Home to SportyBet, SportyTV, Sporty.com, Football.com and the newly launched SportyFM, we continue to lead with innovation and exclusive sports content.

Sporty is expanding and we're building the world's go to platform for everyday entertainment.

We spend millions per year on our infrastructure in order to support millions of users across more than 20 countries. Our DevOps Engineers play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of the site, as well as setting up new infrastructure for greenfield projects and geographic expansion. 

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

Responsibilities

Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals

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 

Requirements

3+ years DevOps experience

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