Devops Engineer, Spotlight Sports Group

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Groovy

Python

Linux

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Grafana

Git

Unix

Datadog

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

3 days a week in office

Sporting agency offerings better experiences

Be an early applicant

Sporting agency offerings better experiences

201-500 employees

B2BAdvertisingSportsMedia

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Groovy

Python

Linux

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Grafana

Git

Unix

Datadog

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

3 days a week in office

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

Are you passionate about technology, sports, and media? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
We're looking for someone inquisitive, keen to learn, and proactive, especially as this is a London based role (hybrid with 3 days in the office, 2 from home)
Strong technical foundations and experience with AWS
Linux/Unix server administration
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
Strong understanding of DevOps concepts (performance monitoring, autoscaling, failover, redundancy, traffic analysis)
Efficiently skilled using containers and containerisation architecture (e.g. Docker, AWS ECS)
Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab)
Experience with monitoring and observability tools, such as, Grafana and DataDog
Comfortable in at least one of the following programming languages (Python, Go, Groovy)
Experience using source control (BitBucket, Git) and feature branching strategies
Network configuration and troubleshooting
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to clearly document work
Familiarity with CDN architecture and services
Understanding of WAF technologies

Desirable

Experience with web delivery workflows
Familiarity of microservices architectures

What the job involves

We're seeking a new DevOps Engineer to join our UK-based team of 6. You'll be at the forefront of driving our digital content infrastructure, products, and services forward. Providing a professional and proactive service aligned with business needs in an ITIL best practice-focused Operations team is key to this role
Your responsibilities include offering DevOps collaborative assistance, supporting development teams with day-to-day tasks within the development, stage, and UAT environments before 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 in 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. Excellent communication skills are essential for effective stakeholder interaction

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Spotlight Sports Group is a global leader in sports bettering, 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 marketing-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. Tese development further solidify Spotlight's stronghold within the industry and it will be interesting to see what it will do next.