Weekend DevOps Engineer

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 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

What you'll bring

• • 3+ years DevOps experience

• • Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM

• • 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.

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