Posted at: 18 November
DevOps Engineer
Company
CompanySporty Group
Sporty Group is a London-based global consumer internet and technology company specializing in sports media, gaming, and fintech, operating both B2C and B2B, with a strong presence across multiple countries.
Remote Hiring Policy:
Sporty Group is a 100% remote company, supporting a work-from-home culture with a focus on building a technical team primarily in the Southeast Asian timezone. We are hiring from various regions, including Europe, South Africa, Egypt, and Latin America, allowing for collaboration across time zones.
Job Type
Job TypeFull-time
Allowed Applicant Locations
Allowed Applicant LocationsEurope
Job Description
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