DevOps Engineer, Spotlight Sports Group

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Linux

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Grafana

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote from UK

Sports betting experiences

Job no longer available

Sports betting experiences

201-500 employees

B2BAdvertisingSportsMedia

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Linux

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Grafana

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote from UK

201-500 employees

B2BAdvertisingSportsMedia

Company mission

To add value to global sports betting experiences, with a trusted, market-leading offering, and embed premium content, marketing, and affiliate partnerships into their platforms.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We're looking for someone inquisitive, keen to learn, and proactive, especially as this is a remote role
AWS and Cloud technologies - Because innovation happens in the cloud!
Linux/Unix environments - Your playground for technical expertise!
Jenkins CI Tooling - Automating the way to success!
Grafana monitoring stack (LGTM) - Keeping an eagle eye on performance!
Restful APIs - Bridging the gap between applications!
Configuration Management tooling (Ansible/Puppet/Chef) - Streamlining operations!
Terraform - Shaping and defining our infrastructure!

Desirable

Knowledge and experience of push messaging (websockets, etc.) - Pushing the boundaries of real-time communication!
Experience with Docker - Embracing the power of containerisation!

What the job involves

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of driving our digital content infrastructure, products, and services forward. Collaborating with our talented development teams, you'll provide a professional and proactive service, aligned with the business needs in an ITIL best practice focused Operations team
Your responsibility includes providing DevOps collaborative assistance, supporting development teams with day-to-day tasks within the development, stage, and UAT environments prior to release to production
Your success in this role directly contributes to the improvements and evolution of Racing Post newspaper production, website, and digital content infrastructure, products, and services. We also value your experience of hands-on implementation of DevOps practices at scale
In this exciting position, you'll have Research and Development (R&D) opportunities, exploring new technologies for the company to generate new knowledge that might be used to create innovative technology, products, services, or systems

Our take

Spotlight Sports Group is a global leader in sports betting, horse racing, and fantasy sports content. Building on the legacy of the Racing Post, the company has spent decades delivering cutting-edge tech, content, and media solutions to the world's top betting operators.

The company offers a wide range of products designed to engage and educate its users. Its Halo Content Destinations provide content experiences in any language, tailored to any sport. Additionally, Spotlight's market-leading pre-play, in-play, and horse racing insights can be seamlessly integrated into betting platforms, offering real-time value and enhancing user engagement.

To bolster its ongoing success, it has partnered with FTN Network and Betfred, along with expanding its role in covering prominent horse racing shows. These developments further solidify Spotlight's stronghold within the industry and it will be interesting to see what it will do next.