DevOps Engineer - remote

Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in

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. 

In support of our global expansion and due to increased demands on our platforms we're building a remote Devops and Site Reliability Team 

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social, and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds  and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our users further via their grit and innovation.

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

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 

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