About the role
What you’ll be doing
* Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals * Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the countries we’re deployed in, as well as streamlining processes to deploy to new countries in the future * Continuously improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency, with a focus on optimising resource utilisation, reducing costs, and streamlining environment provisioning through GitOps-first practices * Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards covering metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring (RUM) * Own weekday on-call operations, triaging and responding to production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving post-incident reviews * Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signal quality, with attention to preventing alert fatigue, waterfall alerting, and notification flooding * Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services, and use them to drive reliability improvements and on-call prioritisation * 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
What you’ll bring
* 3+ years DevOps / SRE / platform engineering experience * Must be based in Europe * Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project * Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production * Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued * Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform * Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash, Python, or Golang; experience with Rust is a plus * Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling, for example Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry * Experience with real user monitoring (RUM), with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus * Proven on-call and incident response experience, comfortable triaging production issues under pressure, leading post-mortems, and driving follow-up actions * Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise, prevent alert fatigue, and avoid waterfall alerting patterns * Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work * Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus, as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments * Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol * Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments * A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached * Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation, JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous
Our stack
* Languages: Java / Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, JavaScript * Database: Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL Community * Cache: ElastiCache, Redis, Valkey * Messaging: Apache RocketMQ, AutoMQ, Kafka * Networking & Proxy: Nginx, Kong, Cilium, eBPF * Orchestration & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Helm * Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3 * CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions * Metrics: Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager * Logs: Loki, Vector * Traces: Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Alloy * Profiling: Pyroscope * RUM: Grafana Faro, OpenTelemetry SDK * Infrastructure as Code: Terraform * CDN & Edge: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront * AWS CloudWatch
What’s in it for you
* Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability * A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter * 28 days paid annual leave * Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this * Referral bonuses & flash bonuses * Top of the line equipment * Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Interview process
* Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team * Online assessment via Hackerrank * Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)
If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.