Description
What you’ll be doing
- Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals
- Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the countries we’re deployed in, as well as streamlining processes to deploy to new countries in the future
- Continuously improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency, with a focus on optimising resource utilisation, reducing costs, and streamlining environment provisioning through GitOps-first practices
- Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards covering metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring (RUM)
- Own weekday on-call operations, triaging and responding to production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving post-incident reviews
- Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signal quality, with attention to preventing alert fatigue, waterfall alerting, and notification flooding
- Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services, and use them to drive reliability improvements and on-call prioritisation
- 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 / SRE / platform engineering experience
- Must be based in Europe
- 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
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform
- Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash, Python, or Golang; experience with Rust is a plus
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling, for example Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience with real user monitoring (RUM), with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus
- Proven on-call and incident response experience, comfortable triaging production issues under pressure, leading post-mortems, and driving follow-up actions
- Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise, prevent alert fatigue, and avoid waterfall alerting patterns
- Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work
- Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus, as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments
- Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol
- Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments
- 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, Node.js, Python, JavaScript
- Database: Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL Community
- Cache: ElastiCache, Redis, Valkey
- Messaging: Apache RocketMQ, AutoMQ, Kafka
- Networking & Proxy: Nginx, Kong, Cilium, eBPF
- Orchestration & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Helm
- Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Metrics: Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager
- Logs: Loki, Vector
- Traces: Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Alloy
- Profiling: Pyroscope
- RUM: Grafana Faro, OpenTelemetry SDK
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- CDN & Edge: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront
- AWS CloudWatch
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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