Senior Dev Ops Engineer

June 5

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Fixing betting with a core focus on price and product

sports betting • exchange platform • betting exchange • prediction market • fintech

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💰 Series B on 2021-06

Description

• Are you ready to revolutionize the heartbeat of our real-time distributed exchange systems? Join us as a DevOps Engineer, where your role isn't just about maintaining; it's about crafting and fortifying the backbone of our dynamic, 24/7 highly available software services infrastructure. • In this thrilling landscape, we thrive on self-service, automation, scalability, and the pursuit of elite engineering velocity. As the guardians of high availability, we place a premium on testability, reproducibility, and a robust suite of monitoring and alerting tools. Your canvas? A tech stack featuring K8S services built in C++, Javascript, Rust, and Python, with PostgreSQL as our stalwart DBMS and Apache Kafka for seamless queuing. Our CI/CD workflows dance to the beats of Nix, Jenkins, and GitLab CI. And here’s the kicker – we breathe life into our infrastructure with the magic of Ansible and Terraform, sculpting a high-scale Kubernetes-based microservices haven within the realms of AWS cloud.

Requirements

• You have commercial experience working with K8S and any of following: Jenkins, GitLab, Grafana, AWS, ELK logging stack, Prometheus • You are a key player maintaining and augmenting our existing and new backend services • You have a solid knowledge of cloud-based application and services architecture patterns, the capabilities of several tech stacks - including several languages • You have fundamental system administration on linux-based Operating system • You are proficient in Python and Bash scripting • You have commercial work experience using PostgreSQL database, Kafka, Redis data store • You enjoy collaborating with other team members to create solutions • You are great at balancing the act between perfect/idealistic design and the pragmatic need of the short term goals • You actively help defining and reinforcing the standard for engineering best practices • You explore and promote the next big technologies that will keep the company’s edge • You have 2-4 years experience in DevOps engineering

Benefits

• Stock options which vests over 4 years • Pension scheme - an impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same • Health insurance • Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee and soft drinks also included) • We're a member of a cycle to work scheme • We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training • 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year! • Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home • 20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year • We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don't need to worry about what to make or buy for lunch as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house chef Alex!