Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At Longshot Systems Ltd we build advanced platforms for sports betting, analytics and trading. We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform team. We’ve got a medium sized deployment that handles trading and connectivity with sports betting platforms globally. We have several internal teams with different infrastructure requirements and everything has to work well together and be centrally managed. From backtesting to real time trading systems to long running backend services, we have strong internal support for a wide array of systems critical to the business. You would own this infrastructure.

🏢 About Longshot Systems Ltd

Longshot Systems Ltd builds advanced platforms for sports betting, analytics and trading. We are a hybrid working company, working Thursdays in our London (Farringdon) office and flexible the rest of the week.

🎯 The Role

You'd be working closely with the CTO and the development team to support our production & development trading infrastructure, develop new infrastructure and detect, diagnose and help solve performance and stability issues in applications, networks and operating systems. You should be happy wading through metrics, packet dumps and logs to find and solve issues and then automate them away for next time.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure for trading and connectivity with sports betting platforms globally
• Support production & development trading infrastructure
• Develop new infrastructure
• Detect, diagnose and solve performance and stability issues in applications, networks and operating systems
• Automate solutions for recurring issues
• Manage security, user management, auditing, and provisioning
• Handle configuration management, specifically Ansible
• Manage AWS infrastructure including EC2, VPC, RDS, etc.
• Manage networking including AWS VPC multi-region networking, routing, VPN, and general network security
• Take day-to-day ownership of monitoring and alerting tools including Prometheus & Grafana
• Write automation scripts in bash and python
• Manage database administration with Postgres

📌 Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a DevOps engineer, linux focused
• Security, user management, auditing, provisioning
• Configuration management, specifically Ansible
• Strong AWS skills: EC2, VPC, RDS etc
• Networking experience that includes AWS VPC multi region networking, routing, VPN and general network security competence
• Fluency in bash and python for automation work
• DB admin experience with Postgres
• Proven experience within the financial, trading or gaming sector

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with high-frequency trading systems
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform

🎁 Benefits

• Participation in the uncapped company bonus scheme
• 10% matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare insurance
• Long term illness insurance
• Gym membership

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Visa sponsorship is not mentioned in the job description.