About us...
Blip is a Tech and Innovation Hub with a strong knowledge in software development, mobile apps, web platforms and retail applications for betting and gamming.
We are part of Flutter Entertainment – one of the World´s Largest Groups in the bookmaking industry, with annual revenue of around 2 billion euros. The Code we develop, powering brands such as PaddyPower, Betfair, and Fanduel, is used by over 5 million people in more than 100 countries and we are in the API Billionaire Club alongside players such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
We are looking for an exceptional DevOps Engineer to deliver game-changing improvements for Blip.
What You'll be Doing...
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Take active part in the production problem root cause investigation, identification, and resolution (where necessary);
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Maintain, improve and troubleshoot our core systems used by several teams, some of those are Kafka, Zookeeper, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, ActiveMQ, Brooklin, etc.;
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Preventive monitoring;
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Define, implement and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
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Iteratively improve monitoring & alerting
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Reduce Toil;
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Reduce or eliminate manual/repetitive tasks
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Improving the resilience and reliability of the systems to reduce or eliminate manual intervention on service recovery
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Design, develop and/or implement tools that will help the team(s) to perform their work more efficiently;
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Contribute to planning and development of our technological stack;
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Team player on an Agile team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and with demanded quality to support our products
What We're Looking For...
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Familiar with SRE and DevOps methodologies
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Good Linux systems administration & Networking knowledge
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Experience on configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef
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Ability to debug and optimize code on at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Golang, Ruby or Scala
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Familiar with CD/CI pipelines comprising Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Go, Ansible, and more
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Technical experience in managing a highly available and highly scalable public /private cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, Azure)
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Nice to have hands-on knowledge of container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift);
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Ability to interact effectively with other functional teams;
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Excellent communicator, common sense and a passion for the art of problem-solving.
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Good written and verbal English communication skills
