Site Reliability Engineer

Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in

In addition to our DevOps Team we are building a Site Reliability Team whose purpose is to focus on site reliability and security. It will also involved deployment, configuration, and monitoring, as well as the availability, latency, change management, emergency response, and capacity management of services in production.

Our Stack

• Backend Application Framework: Spring Boot (Java Config + Embedded Tomcat)
• Frontend Application Framework: VueJS
• Micro Service Framework: Spring Cloud Dalston (Netflix Eureka + Netflix Eureka + Netflix Ribbon + Feign)
• Database: AWS RDS, RDS Proxy, MONGODB
• Public Cache: AWS ElastiCache + Redis
• Message Queue: Apache RocketMQ, RabbitMQ
• Distributed Scheduling: Dangdang Elastic Job
• Data Index and Search: ElasticSearch
• Log Real-time Visualization: ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana, Grafana Loki
• Business Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana
• Reverse Proxy: Nginx
• CDN: Cloudflare
• Server Virtualization Container: AWS EKS + AWS EC2
• Server Operation System: CentOS
• Static File Storage: AWS S3
• Inner DNS Resolution: AWS Route 53
• Network Management: AWS VPC
• Cluster Management and Scaling: AWS OpsWorks
• Cluster Monitoring: Prometheus + AWS CloudWatch
• HTTPS Certificate Management: AWS Certificate Manager
• Malicious Attack Defending: AWS WAF & Shield
• Cluster Alert: AWS SNS + Slack
• Continuous Integration/Deployment: Jenkins, Rancher, ArgoCD
• Configuration Tool: Ansible, Chef, Salt

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of DevOps/SRE and DBA professionals
• Improve existing infrastructure and processes in the 6 countries we’re currently deployed in as well as streamlining processes deploy to new countries in the future
• Holistically improve all aspects of our current infrastructure including: reducing costs; streamlining environment provisioning; lowering response times and incorporating the latest techniques and technologies
• Monitor and maintain the existing cloud infrastructure via autoscaling, automated alerts, andOpsWork and Grafana dashboards
• Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities
• Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits as well as perform our own internal security sweeps
• Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries
• Mentoring less experienced team members

Requirements

• 3+ years SRE experience
• Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project
• Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilize cloud resources to fulfill the demand from other teams and production
• A sound understanding of modern Micro Services and Service Mesh concepts
• Experience managing Kubernetes, including CI / CD with Kubernetes
• Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol
• A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimization, JVM optimization would be highly advantageous
• Experienced with CloudNative Monitoring solution in Large distributed system using observation model

Benefits

Quarterly and flash bonuses

Flexible working hours

Top-of-the-line equipment

Education allowance

Referral bonuses

28 days paid annual leave

Annual company retreat - we all went to Dubai in 2022 and are planning 2 more retreats for 2023!

Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation

Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system 

We score 100% on The Joel Test

Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful

Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members