Weekend DevOps Engineer
Sporty Group
WorldwideremotePosted 13 days ago
Skill Required
Site-Reliability-EngineerDevOps-EngineerSREPlatform-EngineerCloud-EngineerMid-Level-DevOps-EngineerDevOps EngineerDevOpsBackup and RecoverySOCGitHub ActionstroubleshootingObservabilityIstioSpring BootEngineeringServerlessJavaScriptPostgreSQLKubernetesPrometheusnetworkingautomationTerraformdesigningRedisNode.jssecurityMongoDBJenkinsPythonGolangFulltime
Key highlights
- Competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 3+ years DevOps / platform engineering experience
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM
Role overview
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals; covering Saturday, Sunday and Monday (5 days in total with flexibility in your days off) as a Weekend SRE
- Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the countries we’re deployed in, as well as streamlining processes to deploy to new countries in the future
- Continuously improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency, with a focus on optimising resource utilisation, reducing costs, and streamlining environment provisioning through GitOps-first practices
- Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards covering metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring (RUM)
- Own weekend on-call operations, triaging and responding to production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving post-incident reviews
- Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signal quality, with attention to preventing alert fatigue, waterfall alerting, and notification flooding
- Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services, and use them to drive reliability improvements and on-call prioritisation
- 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
Requirements
- 3+ years DevOps / platform engineering experience
- Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM
- 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
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform
- Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash, Python, or Golang; experience with Rust is a plus
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling, for example Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry
- Proven on-call and incident response experience, comfortable triaging production issues under pressure, leading post-mortems, and driving follow-up actions
- Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise, prevent alert fatigue, and avoid waterfall alerting patterns
- Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work
- Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol
- Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments
- 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
Nice to have
- experience with Rust is a plus
- Experience with real user monitoring (RUM), with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus
- Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus, as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments
Benefits
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Additional details
- Our stack Languages: Java / Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, JavaScript Database: Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL Community Cache: ElastiCache, Redis, Valkey Messaging: Apache RocketMQ, AutoMQ, Kafka Networking & Proxy: Nginx, Kong, Cilium, eBPF Orchestration & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Helm Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3 CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions Metrics: Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager Logs: Loki, Vector Traces: Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Alloy Profiling: Pyroscope RUM: Grafana Faro, OpenTelemetry SDK Infrastructure as Code: Terraform CDN & Edge: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront AWS CloudWatch
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
- Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
- Interview process Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team Online assessment via Hackerrank Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)
- 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.
- Originally posted on Himalayas