Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

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. 

You will have access to development opportunities, including IT conferences, internal training, and lunch and learn sessions. You will be part of a great working atmosphere, performing complex work in a collaborative team of amazing people, with forward-thinking managers. You will have the opportunity to make an impact. 

What We're Using:

We use Kubernetes the #1 and growing platform for containerized workloads

AWS top Cloud Provider.

Current tools also include:

• Istio the #1 popular Service Mesh for Kubernetes
• Prometheus for custom metrics
• Keda for custom autoscaling
• Helm and Helmfile for deployments
• Apache AirFlow for ETL pipelines
• Kubernetes clusters reside in the Cloud and On-Prem.

The latest VMWare VSphere for our on-prem infrastructure

Our team is utilizing tools such as Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud-Init to build out on-prem and cloud infrastructure:

• The latest and greatest tools for the job big and minor: Terragrunt, asdf, and more.
• GitLab for CI/CD & SCM; Gitlab is growing fast as the most popular SCM for private projects and one of the first SCM’s to have built-in CI/CD pipeline.
• NewRelic, PagerDuty some of the best tools for monitoring and alerting.

We do big data:

• Cassandra
• Apache Spark
• Kafka
• SnowFlake

 What You'll Do:

• Work closely with Tech Leads of various teams to assess existing problems and to design process improvement solutions
• You’ll identify and fix bottlenecks in coding development and deployment processes 
• You’ll build coding standardization and automating processes for the organization
• You’ll lead team scrums and maintain a proper agile workflow for the DevOps team 
• You’ll solve the challenge of building the world’s fastest betting engine

What you will need: 

• 5-7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps
• Excellent scripting skills in at least one of the following: Bash, Python, Perl, GoLang, Powershell.
• Architect-level experience with implementing and maintaining high-scale cloud infrastructure as code (via Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc)
• In-depth knowledge and experience with containerization (Docker) and scaling with Kubernetes (EKS, GKS)
• In-depth experience implementing and maintaining automation/configuration management solutions (i.e. Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack) used throughout business
• Experiencing administering and automating practical solutions for SDLC and Release management through CI and related tools including but not limited to: Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Artifactory, Sonar, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of AWS with a focus on cloud networking, (i.e. SGs, Subnets, VPC link, Route53).
• Experience administrating Kafka and Cassandra instances.
• Practical experience managing Agile Release Management and maintaining a scalable SDLC
• Bonus: You have experience with Istio for Kubernetes.

Who are we looking for?

• People who share our vision of always being open to learn, use, and implement the right tool for the job - We're ridding ourselves of legacy tools and “push back” politics.
• Candidates working towards having a standout resume - we'll give you the experience to stack your background with the latest and greatest technologies. 
• If you have a “can-do” attitude and are willing to learn, become and work with the best.

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. 

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