Weekend DevOps Engineer

Weekend DevOps Engineer at Sporty Group

As a Weekend DevOps Engineer at Sporty Group, you will join a dynamic team of DevOps and DBA professionals. This role covers Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, totaling five days with flexibility on your additional days off.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals, covering Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (5 days in total with flexibility in your days off) as a Weekend DevOps Engineer.
• Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the 6 countries where we’re currently deployed, while streamlining processes for future deployments to new countries.
• 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, OpsWork, and Grafana dashboards.
• Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities.
• Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits and perform internal security sweeps.
• Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries.
• Mentor less experienced team members.

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years DevOps experience.
• Must be based in Europe or Asia.
• 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.

Our Stack

• 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

What’s In It For You

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability.
• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter.
• 28 days paid annual leave.
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this.
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses.
• Top of the line equipment.
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities.

Interview Process

• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team.
• Online assessment via Hackerrank.
• Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days).

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.

Key Skills/Competency

• DevOps Engineering
• AWS Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes Management
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Microservices Architecture
• Linux Troubleshooting
• Networking Protocols
• Cache Management (CDN, Redis)
• Infrastructure Automation
• System Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus)