Infrastructure Engineer, Systems

Company Description

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will support, maintain and manage the diverse technologies supported by the Infrastructure Systems team.

The Infrastructure Systems team is responsible for the lifecycle management of compute and storage platforms that underpin our highly demanding products and services.

The global environment is varied and complex, incorporating bare metal, virtualised, and containerised Windows and Linux workloads, both on private and public cloud.

With previous evidence of support, management and exposure across diverse areas of technology, you will play an integral part in improving the day-to-day operational efficiency and predictability of our systems.

You will work on cross-functional infrastructure solutions, helping with business continuity management exercises, problem investigations, incident resolution and system builds, whilst striving for continuous improvement.

You will be required to provide out of hours support on a rota basis, which may also require occasional office presence on weekends.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Exposure to Linux including Ubuntu, Red Hat derivatives or Windows system administration.
• Experience in the use of virtual infrastructures, including using VROps, vCenter and vSphere.
• Experience in the use of file and object storage technologies is advantageous.
• Fundamental understanding of networking, load balancing, enterprise FC storage, tiering and virtualisation.
• Self-motivation to investigate and resolve issues across the systems technology stack.
• Effective time management, organisation and work prioritisation to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail.
• Logical approach to solving problems under pressure.
• Ability to be an active communicator on technical issues.

Additional Information

• Collaborating with technology specialists to fix issues and deliver platform enhancements.
• Recognising areas for continuous improvement and opportunities for automation.
• Supporting, maintaining, building and managing platforms, systems and storage.
• Defining and enhancing system monitoring using modern tooling and practices.
• Mentoring and coaching other engineers to transfer knowledge and skill across the team.
• Participating in an on-call support rota for technical escalation.

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At bet365, we're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued. Where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of their background. We're Never Ordinary, and we're always striving to be better. If you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please don’t hesitate to reach out.