Job Description
The Sporting Group is one of the world’s leading names in sports betting technology and trading. The Group employs almost 300 staff, predominately at its central London HQ, and has two principal divisions, Sporting Index – a B2C operation, the pre-eminent sports spread betting company, and Sporting Solutions, a rapidly growing B2B operation which supplies real-time pricing and sports trading capabilities to sportsbooks around the globe.
Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.
In order to maintain our industry standing with ever increasing customers and products, and support our increased use of Cloud Technologies, we have invested in our Technology function through the creation and definition of the Site Reliability Engineering team. DevOps practices form the base of this team, complimented with an SRE focus on SLOs, SLAs, error budgets and collaborative working.
The Role
Reporting to the SRE Manager, the Site Reliability Engineering will be part of the Site Reliability Engineering team and overall SRE/DevOps capability across Sporting Group. Key responsibilities include:
- Selection, definition and ownership of the frameworks, standards, policies, principles, technologies and suppliers we use to deliver SRE & DevOps capabilities to support the Engineering and Technology Operations teams.
- Communication of these capabilities and ways of working to the relevant Engineering and Technology Operations teams to ensure we are delivering new software features at pace but balanced with the operational readiness, resiliency and quality standards demanded to meet the defined SLOs
- Manage the day-to-day priorities of the SRE team, and direct and coordinate the work done by 3 rd -party DevOps resources embedded in engineering teams from Code Factory and Opinov8.
- Building and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines and build processes for all current cloud-based deployments and extending these to on-premise infrastructure when appropriate.
- The performance of all cloud-based services, ensuring they have the right levels of security, scalability, resilience and performance to meet the agreed SLOs
- Monitoring key metrics through the deployment and use of capabilities such as Istio, Prometheus, Sumo Logic
- Management of Cloud security and performance capabilities including CloudFlare (DNS / DDoS / CDN), Secrets management, certificates and credentials.
- Assessment of the feasibility and cost of migrating on premise workloads to the cloud, using tools such as Anthos for Cloud Migration
- Proactively collaborate with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Software Engineers and Tech Ops System Engineers to ensure new systems are build according to SRE best practise, and can be deployed within minimal friction to the production environment.
What we are looking for
- 5+ years’ experience of leading and working in DevOps / SRE
- Experience in cloud infrastructure set up and management – specifically GCP (GKE, Cloud functions, Kafka, Pub/Sub, VPCs) and AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, BigQuery, Step functions)
- Extensive experience with Linux OS and containers
- A background in technology architecture, design, engineering, systems administration (including virtualised, cloud and container-based systems), networking and security
- Experience building highly automated infrastructure using modern tooling (e.g. Ansible / Terraform), using immutable, everything-as-code methodologies
- Great communication skills, capable of explaining complex technologies to senior stakeholders
- Sharp delivery focus, proactively working through blocking issues, assisting and educating engineers on how to deliver cloud-based services in an automated way.
- Expertise in problem solving and analysis of distributed, microservices based systems