Sporty Group is hiring a
DevOps Engineer

Summary

The job is for a DevOps Engineer at Sporty, a popular internet site operating in more than 20 countries. The role involves ensuring smooth operation of the site, setting up new infrastructure, improving existing infrastructure, and mentoring less experienced team members. The stack includes various technologies like Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript/VueJS, MySQL, Oracle, Redisson, ElastiCache, Redis, Apache RocketMQ, Elastic Job, Netty, Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3, AWS Opsworks, Salt, Chef, Drone, AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch, ELK, Rsyslog, Log4j2, and Cloudflare.

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 optimization would be highly advantageous

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

Benefits

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual company retreat
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
• Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
• Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
• Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members