AWS DevOps Engineer - Sports Trading

AWS DevOps Engineer - Sports Trading

We are working with a leading private sports betting consultancy, who work by applying algorithmic trading principles to sports indices namely football and cricket. As part of their ambitious growth plans they are looking to bring on a few DevOps engineers to work alongside their software engineers in a small, dedicated agile teams.

As they are set up in a similar way to a hedge fund these systems are low-latency, by using the latest technologies to achieve this, they have become the leading firm in this area over the last 10 years.

The main work in these teams will be continuing to build CI/CD pipelines, building Kubernetes clusters, and provisioning AWS and pushing DevOps across the business. You will drive the automation of the development and deployment processes via a range of new technologies and techniques including increasing the adoption of infrastructure as code practices. You will have a chance to define architecture and bring in new technologies too as the business moves forward.

Skill Set:

Strong knowledge of production AWS cloud technology deployments

Demonstratable understanding of security best practices

Production monitoring and alerting of micro-service-based systems

Working knowledge of container-based deployments Linux and associated Scripting languages (preferably Python, bash, PowerShell, etc)

Load balancing and HTTP services

High-availability clustering solutions

Tech stack:

Kubernetes, EKS, Rancher

Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation CI/CD tooling, Jenkins, Octopus

ELK, CloudWatch

Prometheus, Grafana

VMware virtualisation

Hashicorp suite (Vault, Consul)

Git, GitFlow, GitOps

NGINX, Traefik

ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, NATS, SQS

SQL and NoSQL/Document databases (eg MySQL, EventStore, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, etc.

If you have the relevant skills and would like the chance to spearhead this transformation please get in touch!