Infrastructure Engineer

 

Description:

BettingJobs are working with an established sports betting odds provider who are based in London. They are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their team in London.

 

Requirements:

• Operational support for the company servers, networks and cloud infrastructure.

• Responding to faults and incidents with potential to impact product uptime and availability.

• Maintaining a wide understanding of the architecture and service interdependencies.

• Management of high priority security vulnerabilities and implementation of mitigations where appropriate.

• Ensuring a high level of observability and monitoring throughout of infrastructure and services.

• Implementing backups of data stores, monitoring and testing backups and restores.

• Working with other operational teams to triage issues and resolve issues.

• Provision of compute/network/cloud capability to support new projects and products.

• Attending project calls and meetings to understand requirements and work with stakeholders.

• Support project delivery processes in the role of Infrastructure design authority and/or architect.

• Provide financial forecasts and options for infrastructure capabilities to support project/product requirements.

• Provide resource impact estimates and delivery forecasts for infrastructure components.

• Delivering infrastructure components in line with forecast and to specification.

• Implementing new configuration management code to support application deployment requirements.

• Maintenance of existing legacy “DevOps” capabilities including server configuration management, software build and test infrastructure capabilities and artifact deployment.

• Lead on transition to ‘containerisation’ and ‘gitops’ of applications and deployment workflows.

• Continual research and assessment of new “DevOps” technology and vendor capabilities.

Requirements:

• Significant infrastructure engineer experience.

• Linux skills ( RHEL ).

• Puppet skills.

• Kubernetes skills.

• Experience working with AWS and hosted server providers.

• Ability to be on-call one week out of four as above.

• Experience mentoring and supporting junior engineers.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing and alternating priorities and constant focus on delivery.

• Logical and structured approach to problem-solving in both near-term (tactical) and mid-to-long term (strategic) horizons.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Any AWS certifications.

• Ansible skills.

• Terraform skills.

• Industry/Domain experience.

• Exposure to the sports data information or betting systems domain is a bonus.