Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Degree 53 ,
Manchester, Greater Manchester
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About Us Sharp Gaming is a brand new state-of-the-art technology platform for the gambling industry. We are on an exciting journey to build the next generation sports betting and gaming platform that will support market leading bookmakers globally. With over 25 million investment so far, we have a long term vision for it with lots of opportunities in the future. Sharp Gaming is based in Manchester City Centre and stems from the gaming division at Degree 53. The platform is still in development and we are recruiting talented individuals to help bring our vision to life. Due to our successful growth, we are now looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. What will I be doing? We are looking for a talented engineer who has hands-on experience in site reliability engineering practices, who can successfully lead engineers of many disciplines and calibres to support our ambitions to build an enterprise grade digital gambling platform, working across a varied technology stack to bring platform reliability, operational efficiency, high performance and service excellence. You will be part of our platform engineering team, but will work closely with product teams, evangelising the importance of performance, reliability and resilience, as well as mentoring developers and testers on good practices of building robust applications. You will be self motivated, liaising with product development, DevOps and architecture to understand the platform, current limitations and scale requirements. You will also also work with the business stakeholders to define key metrics, and ensure tools and dashboards are available to monitor and alert on metrics. You will proactively look to identify improvements, by defining test scenarios, and analysing results to identify improvements that the platform engineering team can deliver into production, alternatively providing requirements along with any building blocks and PoCs that can be passed to product development teams for implementation. You will be proficient in identifying gaps in tooling and metrics, that will aid in uncovering potential issues within the platform, you will be analytical by nature, using facts and evidence gained through testing to help identify problems, and come up with potential solutions. You will be goal orientated, looking to meet business targets, as well as setting out personal goals for improving site reliability skills across the teams. About You No shrinking violet, you will be prepared to get stuck into any problem, across any part of the technology landscape. You will have a can-do attitude, and will enjoy being outside of your comfort zone as you try to solve problems, large and small. Excellent communication and collaborative skills is a must, and you will be proactive in engaging stakeholders and ensuring deadlines are met. You will have experience in mentoring people working across different technical disciplines and be able to provide technical leadership and governance in ensuring design and implementation meets the business objectives. Experience in running applications on virtualised infrastructure is essential, as well as adapting services to containers using popular orchestration technologies. You should have excellent working knowledge of both Linux (CentOS) and Windows 2016 Servers, and have good knowledge of networking protocols. You will have some understanding of how DNS, NTP and Active Directory works. You must have solid experience in C#,using the latest .net core and framework versions. Ideally, you will be a polyglot developer, comfortable in writing code in different styles and techniques that suit the language, and follow good test first practices. You will have a strong background in working on both monolithic and distributed systems using both synchronous and asynchronous based API's. You must have experience of working in an Agile environment, and be able to support working towards a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery approach. You should have experience with database systems such as MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, as well as No SQL database solutions such as Redis or MongoDB. You must possess excellent problem solving skills, and be proficient using operational tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Splunk, ELK or Prometheus. What's in it for me? * Competitive salary * Employee of the month * Monthly team lunches * Referral bonus * 25 days holiday a year in addition to bank holidays * Flexi-time (start anywhere between 7.30am and 9am - whatever suits you best!) * Company Pension Scheme * City Centre Office space with a cosy breakout area and Wii U and PS4 consoles Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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