Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering

FanDuel ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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FanDuel Group is a collection of brands operating at the intersection of sports, gaming, tech, and entertainment. Our mission is to give sports fans the chance to win everyday and create experiences they can't wait to share with their friends. We're not just a company, we're a collective. And we're not just coworkers, we're a community. We're an all-hands-on-deck crew of dreamers, doers, thinkers, makers, builders, breakers, and rebuilders. We value teamwork above all else, and we believe that diversity and inclusiveness are at the core of any good team. Like any good sports team, we've got passion. Passion for building a product our customers will love, passion for being the best in our field, and passion for our own people. With a company that's as committed to its people as it is to its customers, FanDuel Group is a great place to develop yourself and your career. Release Engineering is a brand-new team in FanDuel. Our goal is to enable engineering teams to maximize the velocity at which they can deliver new functionality to our customers. We will achieve this with quality and control in an automated framework. This is an opportunity to shape and implement world class automated delivery and deployment at scale. The online U.S. gaming market is new and you can help us to be a leader in the industry by giving us the ability to deliver valuable products and services to market as efficiently as possible in a regulated environment. We're looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. Role and expectations * Design, build and support, tools and frameworks that enable product development teams to deploy and release software to customers. These will provide different options to suit the varying product risk profiles. * Create and promote best practices for delivery and deployment in a DevOps culture. * Provide the capabilities that manage product release trains for features or system components that require regulator oversight or testing before, or after, release. * Ensure that the best practices and tools are in place to fulfil our other change submission control standards e.g. automated promotion checks, release notifications/approvals to/from stakeholders, change auditing etc. * Explore a multitude of technology to solve complex problems. * Write good, professional, code following best practices. * Reflect our values in day-to-day working. Experience * Strong sense of ownership, with demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services. * Experience building tools or capabilities to further CI/CD practices. * Proficient in OOP and scripting for automation tooling. * Experience with database integrations (SQL/NoSQL). * Understanding of source control management e.g. GitHub. * Experience with CI tools. For example, gated promotion pipelines in Jenkins. * Familiarity with configuration management e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible. * Demonstrated use of artifact control tools (Nexus, Artifactory, Image repositories). * Experience working with an AWS technical stack or similar. * Flexible in learning and working with new technologies. * Ability to build relationships with colleagues across the company. * Some experience of mentoring more junior staff. * Loves automation. * You believe anything is possible and that great teams achieve great things together. Bonus points for * Experience with API development. * Knowledge of VMware. What you can expect An open and collaborative team who value and respect each other An autonomous environment where you are empowered to make decisions A new technical challenge around every corner, we're never short of interesting problems to solve An excellent wellbeing package including, flexible working & uncapped holidays, employee assistance program, full medical, dental and optical cover and cycle to work scheme. Excellent development opportunities including, 10% time, hackathons, conference attendance, online and in-office training and our preference is to promote from within. A stress-free financial package inclusive of, pension, life assurance, share save scheme, value creation rewards and season ticket commuter loans. We're very proud of the company we have created and the biggest contributor to our success is our people. We strive to create an environment that allows people to bring their whole selves to work, one that promotes a healthy work/life balance and one that is dedicated to supporting the personal and professional development of its people. FanDuel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment.Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential

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