Maintain and improve cloud infrastructure across multiple countries, manage Kubernetes and CI/CD, optimize performance and costs, handle monitoring and security audits, lead deployments, and mentor junior team members.
What you'll be doing
- Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals
- 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
- 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
- Offline Take home assignment
- Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
- Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
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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