Smarkets is hiring a Remote Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
\nWho are we?\n\nSmarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over ยฃ29 billion in volume since 2010. Our company mission is to fix the betting industry with the best products and best prices. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a transparent platform that offers the best value for bettors, with the fairest odds, best technology and a superior customer experience.\n\nSmarkets is a Series B tech company that brings a professional, product-led approach to our mission. We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.\n\nJoin our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our betting trading technology landscape.\n\nRole expectations and responsibilities\n\nJoin us at the forefront of engineering innovation as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Maestro! As a key collaborator, youโll delve deep into cloud-based architecture, wielding your expertise to strike the perfect balance between visionary design and real-world practicality.\n\nYour playground? An environment where autonomy reigns supreme, ownership is the norm, and innovation pulses through every line of code. Here, youโll champion engineering best practices, carving out standards that push boundaries while keeping a keen eye on costs and business objectives.\n\nYour canvas? A landscape brimming with cutting-edge techโmicroservices, Kubernetes, and beyond. Your mission? To explore and champion the next big thing that will keep our companyโs tech prowess unparalleled.\n\nYour toolkit? Itโs diverse and robust, from Linux wizardry to terraforming mastery, Python and Bash scripting finesse to the orchestration of high-scale Kubernetes-based microservices on AWS cloud. Your expertise in networking configurations and security measures will fortify our infrastructure, ensuring not just efficiency but ironclad protection.\n\nBut it doesnโt stop there. Your leadership shines through in navigating audits and compliance checks, guaranteeing that our technology adheres to the highest industry standards.\n\nAnd if youโre brimming with experience in managing Developer and SRE tooling platforms like GitLab, Jenkins, Grafana, and more, or have wielded the powers of PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka data stores in commercial settings, weโre eager to have you on board!\n\nIn a vibrant startup setting where everyone lives and breathes technology, where camaraderie fuels our close-knit teams, and where engineering uniqueness is a way of lifeโthis is where youโll thrive. Come shape the future of tech with us!\n\nRole Requirements:\n\n\n* You have to be based in Europe (EU)\n\n* You are a key player with in-depth knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure architecture patterns.\n\n* You are proficient at balancing between idealistic design and short-term pragmatic goals.\n\n* You actively help defining and reinforcing the standard for engineering best practices.\n\n* You explore and promote the next big technologies that will keep the companyโs edge.\n\n* You have a solid knowledge of cloud-based application and microservices architecture patterns.\n\n* Strong Linux system administration skills.\n\n* Strong IAC and terraform knowledge and awareness of best practices.\n\n* You are proficient in Python and Bash scripting.\n\n* You are an expert at configuring and managing networking components, including VPN setups, to establish secure and efficient communication within and beyond the infrastructure.\n\n* You have extensive experience managing high-scale Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructure on AWS cloud.\n\n* You have experience leading and navigating technology infrastructure audits, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.\n\n* You have 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.\n\n* You have extensive experience managing self-hosted developer and SRE tooling platforms such as GitLab, Jenkins, Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Prometheus.\n\n* You have commercial work experience using PostgreSQL database, Redis and S3 data stores.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits and Values\n\nWe offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Our values are at the heart of everything that we do which include; push to win, make others better, give a shit, be a pro and bring the energy. \n\nWe believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering whatโs expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard. We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development. These include:\n\n\n* Stock options which vests over 4 years\n\n* Pension scheme - An impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same\n\n* Health insurance\n\n* Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee, soft drinks also included)\n\n* Weโre a member of a cycle to work scheme\n\n* We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a ยฃ1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training\n\n* 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!\n\n* Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home.\n\n* 20 days a year of globally working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year.\n\n* We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you donโt need to worry about feeding your belly as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house Chef Alex!\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Redis, Python, Education, Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon, England, United Kingdom
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Octopus Energy is hiring a Remote Database Reliability Engineer
\nHelp us make a big green dent in the universe. We're on a mission to drive the global renewable energy revolution, and we need loads more people to help us make our vision a reality.\n\n\nAt Kraken Technologies weโre looking to revolutionise the energy system to make power cheaper, greener and better for people around the world. Our tech platform โKrakenโ is already licensed to support 40 million customer accounts in 14 countries, and we aim to serve 100 million globally by 2027.\n\n\nOur Technology Team has grown extremely quickly as a result, tripling in size within the last 18 months. With this rapid growth, we are looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering Department in Australia. We have an office in Melbourne if you'd like an office space but we also are open to someone working remote anywhere in Australia. \n\n\nOur Global Platform Engineering department is responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining the robust and scalable infrastructure, tooling, and services that power and support our platform. As a Database Reliability Engineer within the Platform department, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the availability, performance, and integrity of our databases. \n\n\nYour proficiency in database management and optimisation techniques will shape our approach, ensuring stability and high performance for our brands and clients. Staying abreast of the latest trends in database technologies and best practices will be vital. Your analytical skills and attention to detail will be indispensable as you pinpoint areas for enhancement, ensure optimal database operations, and continuously improve our database reliability and efficiency.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll do \n* Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our databases hosted in AWS\n* Monitor database performance, implement optimisations, and assist in database capacity planning\n* Implement monitoring and observability of database metrics \n* Work closely with application teams to ensure database changes adhere to best practices and performance benchmarks\n* Keep up to date on the latest developments and best practices in AWS and PostgreSQL\n* Liaise with our AWS account team and relevant AWS service teams where required\n\n\n\nWhat you'll have \n* Expertise in administering, tuning, and maintaining PostgreSQL databases\n* Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly RDS, EC2, S3, and DMS.\n* A solid understanding of database design, SQL, and transactional processing.\n* Knowledge of security best practices for databases, especially hosted in AWS\n* Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation\n* General ability to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve database-related issues in a timely manner\n* Some experience with other relational databases or NoSQL databases\n\n\n\nWhat would help \n* Understanding the complexities and challenges of large scale distributed systems\n* Experience managing very large databases\n* Python experience, particularly with Django and the Django ORM\n* Familiarity with data engineering tools, including Kafka, Spark, and Airflow.\n* Understanding of ETL processes and tooling with PostgreSQL databases\n* Experience with CDC tooling and integrating PostgreSQL data with Datalake solutions\n\n\n\nWhy else you'll love it here\n* Our company culture - We are organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people.\n* Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together \n* Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success \n* Office - have a certain tech requirement? Weโll do our best to get it. We also have drinks, snacks and a coffee machine at the WeWork office space.\n* Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you \n\n\n\n\n\nWeโre looking for someone who thrives on solving tough problems. Someone who can challenge those around them, and be challenged, while delivering delightful experiences for our internal and external customers. \n\n\nIf this sounds like a great opportunity and you live in Australia but you are based outside of Melbourne, we are also open to remote working ๐ \n\n\nIf this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. \n\n\nStudies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Django, NoSQL and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote, Australia
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