DevOps Engineer » EltasJobs

Working with William Hill, you will be at the heart of the technological revolution with one of the world’s most trusted betting and gaming companies. William Hill deals with projects ranging from desktop or mobile casinos and betting sites, to name a few. We process 500 online Sportsbook bets per second each Saturday, that’s the same as the number of orders processed by Amazon UK, on its busiest day of the year. We deal with more than 20 million users daily; impressed? You can be sure there are many more challenges waiting for you.

When we say cutting edge, we mean it. Here, you can work on highly reliable systems with low latency, much like the transactional systems of the best financial institutions, but…with the fun included.

What you will Do

Responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation and support of infrastructure components that host the customer facing production applications

Design and build tools and frameworks that support deploying and managing customer mobile/web apps

Design, build, and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infra

Assist in guiding application developers on proper techniques for building scalable applications

Foster collaboration with software product development, architecture, and IT teams to ensure releases are delivered with repeatable and auditable processes

Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup and restores of different environments

Work independently across multiple platforms and applications to understand dependencies

Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability

Design and architect solutions for existing customer facing applications as they are moved into cloud environments such as AWS

Perform incident and change management on all devices and operating systems

Perform maintenance as required

Participate in on-call schedule and patch rotations

What you will need:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

6+ years of work experience in an IT environment

4+ years of Linux Systems Engineering/Architecture experience

Proven, expert-level experience working with highly-distributed systems, scalability and SaaS applications with a proven ability to speak authoritatively about architectural, design, and implementation details

Expert experience with configuration management tools like Salt/Chef/Ansible, etc.

Expert experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, Travis, etc.

Proven ability to script using languages like Node, Perl, Bash, or Python

Understanding of systems hardening and secure systems configuration

Experience with IaaS like AWS or Azure

Understanding of security concepts such as Firewalls, IPS, IDS, VPN, and MFA

Ability to thrive as an individual or a small team member on projects

Extensive experience and knowledge in solving problems that are complex in scope, requiring in-depth evaluation as well as the ability to identify problems in advance and propose solutions

Require limited supervision and direction; drive results, and set priorities appropriately & independently

Excellent communication, presentation, writing and editorial abilities

Excellent organizational and time management skills

Ability to work on a 24×7 on-call, weekday and weekend schedule

Essential Functions/Exposures:

Must be able to sit for extended periods of time

Must be able to type and talk on the phone for extended periods of time

Regular attendance in the office

William Hill provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union/domestic partnership status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. William Hill complies with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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