DevOps Engineer

We are a leading international digital gaming company, underpinned by superior talent and technology. We operate a multi-branded strategy, using a combination of proprietary and licensed software to provide online bingo and slot gaming and a social gaming mobile application. Every day, millions of people worldwide enjoy our products – which include meccabingo.com and grosvenorcasinos.com – on their mobiles, tablets, and desktops.

• Taking inspiration from Site Reliability Engineering.
• Using containerization to deploy a heterogeneous architecture
• Primarily, we’re using AWS
• Embracing CI and CD to frequently release new code through robust pipelines
• Adopting infrastructure as code; cattle not pets approach

Role Responsibilities

• Involvement in the design of automated solutions
• Automation of operational functions with a security-first mindset
• Creation of new operational solutions both in the Cloud and on Premise
• Automation and configuration management of virtual infrastructure and services
• Set up and standardization of monitoring solutions
• End state documentation of solutions and work with presentations

Things you’ll need to know about:

• Re-basing, merging, cherry-picking, and committing with git
• Familiarity with Cloud Provisioning e.g. AWS & Azure
• Container orchestration, not limited to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm
• The ability to build stable platforms using infrastructure as code tools like Packer, Terraform, and Ansible
• Familiarity with Jenkins in order to support our developers in building their CI/CD pipelines.
• Vagrant is often useful
• We use ELK as a centralized logging solution
• Hybrid Cloud Networking
• Knowledge of Networking and DNS
• Experience with Atlassian products e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Familiarity with DevOps and Agile working practices
• Experience in the development lifecycle from Design through to Support
• Ubuntu
• NGINX
• Version Control with Git
• Ansible
• Knowledge of CDN Providers
• Bash
• Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana
• Python
• Familiarity with ITIL principles
• Liquibase or other database automation tools
• The ability to communicate effectively, whether it’s spoken, written or collaboration over documentation.