Remote Remote Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer - SportBuff

SportBuff is looking for an experienced Remote Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of services you deliver.

The ideal candidate will draw upon technical background, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills that provides innovative solutions to support development teams. The candidate should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed and a great team player. Candidates should drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

We are bringing the next generation of sports fan engagement and gamifcation to sports. We are already working with some of the most exciting sports boradcasters, esports tournaments, sports rightsholder and events and currently have a huge project with the Fifa World Cup 2022!

Responsibilities

  • You'll contribute improvements within Buff's product, and our core infrastructure with custom integration solutions, automation and scripts, including enhancements, interfaces, functions and features by assessing relevant needs with teams across Roostify
  • Gather requirements, prototype, architect, plan, estimate, implement or update design and implementation of product build, release, deployment and configuration
  • Assist in defining, creating and updating DevOps and quality guidelines, operation manuals, processes and standards
  • Build towards automated deployment processes using configuration management technology solutions
  • Anticipate, identify, mitigate, and resolve issues relating to client facing systems or services and application operation in conjunction with relevant teams to include supporting Client Services by identifying, researching and resolving performance and production issues
  • Lead the technical evaluation and selection process for improving performance, monitoring, gap analysis, predicting trends for system performance, capacity, efficiency, and reliability and recommend enhancements in order to better meet client SLAs and standards
  • Contribute to ongoing efforts to review current software stack and SDLC processes and tools, identifying opportunities to increase efficiency, implementing improvements to enable scale as we grow
  • Strong ownership with a sense of urgency, and drive to launch services

Requirements

  • 3+ years of relevant software development or DevOps/Operations experience in a SaaS or Software entity
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services for SaaS products such as EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, ELB, RDS, SQS, Route53, Cloud Watch, ECR
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools
  • Solid understanding of AWS networking, network security, load balancers, TCP/IP
  • Team or project lead XP will be very beneficial
  • Working knowledge of security standards and best practices
  • Ability to define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems

What you can expect from us

  • Working directly with some of the greatest sports brands in the world
  • Work in an exciting fast paced tech start up environment within sports and esports!
  • You have direct access to senior team members (CEO, CTO, VPs etc)
  • A hugely passionate team who will support you all along the way
  • Working with some of the latest technology creating a new experience for the public
  • A fantastic learning experience, with long term potential from being one of the first hires in what will become a significant team and product
  • Being part of something very special as we change the way sports fans engage with content
  • Employee stock

POI: At Sport Buff, you are a key person of the team and company, and you will actually own some of the company you are building (with the employee equity scheme). Being part of this business at this stage gives you power to shape the business for the future, not just the product but the culture and team too.

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