Devops/Cloud Platforms Engineer

Sundays are big days for us. We have millions of our closest friends come over to watch the games and maybe we’ll enter a million Daily Fantasy line-ups or we’ll place around three million SportsBook wagers. Perhaps we’ll use our Casino products during the game intervals or maybe we’ll take a punt on the horses. Either way, our customers see odds, lines, spreads, line-ups, play-by-play live scoring updates, deposits, and withdrawals. We see resilient Cloud and on-premise infrastructure hosting a multitude of horizontally-scalable services that contend with data consistency challenges at scale. This is not a sports job - this is a DevOps job - infrastructure drives our organisation.

FanDuel is looking for DevOp aficionados like you in both the UK and US time zones to join our expanding Cloud Platforms team. The most important characteristic of this team is that we love helping our Engineering teams. FanDuel is a place for people to work better together and Cloud Platforms treats people the way we’d want someone to treat our friends.

Forget stakeholders, synergies and other management buzzwords: Cloud Platformers have charming personalities and the ability to explain complicated things simply. The occasional use of an animated GIF may be required. Aside from that, we’re on a huge drive to fully containerise our architecture.

Skills you have, or will quickly develop a deep understanding for -

• ●  Knowing your way around the AWS console - everything from IAM to EC2 to Lambda to RDS to SQS to EKS and much more besides, like Outposts, for example

• ●  Orchestration. Docker and Kubernetes are really huge for us

• ●  Terraforming all the infrastructural things

• ●  Building pipelines using Buildkite and Jenkins

• ●  Being comfortable taking DataDog for a walk

• ●  Managing configuration with Puppet and Chef

• ●  Scientifically automating continuous delivery using shell, Perl, Python or whatever

• ●  Knowing git and GitHub (no-brainers really)

• ●  Having some experience with internet networking

• ●  Knowing how an app should be built for the cloud

• ●  Being cool with managing database schema deployments

• ●  Capacity planning

• ●  Being comfortable authoring some light documentation and sharing with your peers

• ●  Occasionally being on-call

• ●  Taking a day a fortnight to work on something you care about

You’re good at -

• ●  The English language, thinking logically and being pragmatic

• ●  Putting yourself in other’s shoes, seeking to understand before being understood

• ●  Working remotely

  For bonus points -

• ●  Perhaps you have a software engineering or an architectural background?

• ●  You understand the data consistency challenges inherent in distributed systems

● You know that resilience, security, observability and performance are number one priorities before the first PR is created

As you grow at FanDuel, you will -

• ●  Advance your career within well-defined, skill-based tracks, either as an individual contributor or as a manager - both providing equal opportunities for compensation and advancement

• ●  Mentor more junior Engineers

Competitive compensation is just the beginning, you can also expect -

• ●  An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth

• ●  To contribute to exciting products used by a highly passionate customer base

• ●  Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game

• ●  Generous vacation allowance to let you prevent work from eclipsing life

• ●  UK: Generous pension plan / US: 401K plan with company match

• ●  UK: Medical and Dental / US: Attractive health insurance premiums

• ●  10% time (that day a fortnight, mentioned above)

  The bit the Talent team made us put in -

  FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products all built with one goal in mind - to give fans new and innovative ways to interact with their favourite games, sports, teams, and leagues. FanDuel Group is based in New York, with offices in Scotland, California, New Jersey, Florida and Oregon. Our brands include:

• ●  FanDuel - A game-changing real-money fantasy sports app

• ●  FanDuel Sportsbook - America’s #1 sports betting app

• ●  TVG - The best-in-class horse racing TV/media network and betting platform

• ●  FanDuel Racing - A horse racing app built for the average sports fan

• ●  FanDuel Casino & Betfair Casino - Fan-favourite online casino apps

• ●  FOXBet - A world-class betting platform and affiliate of FanDuel Group

• ●  PokerStars - The premier online poker product and affiliate of FanDuel Group

  FanDuel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.