Sportserve
Sportserve forms part of a remarkable group of B2C sports betting and B2B sportsbook technology companies, focused on delivering first class sports betting experiences and casino products for our users worldwide. Along with Sportion, TechSpirit, Standard Focus and Sportelligent, we are the driving force behind the world renowned sports betting company and our flagship brand, Dafabet.
Since launching our global hiring initiative, we now employ over 2,000 people worldwide, offering exciting career paths in Technology, Trading, Operations and Media. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and international culture that embraces the global community and acts locally. We offer office based, hybrid and remote work on permanent and consultancy contracts all over the world, making us the true global employer of choice.
What you’ll be getting up to:
Provide leadership and guidance across the SRE team; motivating and driving the team with technical leadership acting as a subject matter expert and leading best practice techniques.
To lead the SRE team in ensuring technical assurance in significant projects, for the delivery of quality technical deliverables, which may involve several teams or technologies.
To oversee the SRE team to ensure they are involved in every step of the application software development lifecycle, including product design, development, testing, and transition into operation.
Provide coaching and mentoring to the SRE team to improve their skillset, increase knowledge and set the benchmark of quality and precision engineering
Oversee the implementation of service transition and change and release process changes, ensuring that processes are reviewed and improved with onus on optimisation
Evaluate risks and defects, analysing specifications, and customising applications for specific customer needs
Work with technology teams to produce and maintain standards, guidelines, and pattern catalogue
Measuring and driving delivery and quality improvements through the capture and analysis of metrics
Build innovative prototypes and lead technology teams to develop quality solutions, by translating architectural designs into lower level implementation details, helping implement user stories if required
To lead and influence teams to ensure quality and operational excellence, and to ensure teams are aligned to design patterns and design collateral
Work with Engineering management to drive through best practice, techniques and technology both on the team and around the company
Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas, innovation and continuous improvements
Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate
Understand the importance of and be a strong advocate for non-functionals eg. monitoring, alerting, logging etc
Define adequate strategies to deal with technical debt
Collaborate with the operational teams to enhance company’s Incident and Problem management capabilities
Accountable for the quality of the implementation and deployment of the team’s work
Accountable for the security, capacity and performance of the system
Act as escalation point in Incident management processes
Take ownership of RCA activities in your respective area
Learn from your experiences, adopting a continuous improvement mindset to help make better decisions
Requirements:
Proficient in agile practices
Demonstrable experience of leadership in complex, cross-company projects to deliver operational improvements
Strong engineering background acquired during a previous hands-on development role
Managerial and leadership skills, able to motivate and lead personal development plans for employees
Driving change and handling difficult situations
Dealing with change on a daily basis
Ability to demonstrate the value of changes introduced
Proven communication skills
Web servers – Apache, nginx, IIS, Drupal
Databases – Oracle, MYSQL, MSSQL
Traffic Management – F5, Haproxy, Keepalived
CDNs – CDNetworks, Akamai, Incapsula
Scripting – Bash, Bat, Python, Perl
Programming Languages – PHP, .NET, Java, JS, Ruby, Flutter
Caching – Redis, Memcached, Varnish
APIs – REST, JSON, SOAP
CI/CD – gitlab, jenkins, ansible, terraform
Monitoring and Observability – ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Prometheus, PRTG
List of skills we’d love you to have:
OS Administration – Windows, Linux
Virtualisation and Orchestration – VMware, Docker, Kubernetes
Networking – Cisco, Brocade
Cloud – Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
Testing – Testrails, K6, Gatling
Security – Trellix, Fireeye, OKTA, Cisco Anyconnect, entrust
Diversity & Inclusion
We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing.
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