Infrastructure Manager

1X2 Network,
the industry acclaimed
Slot Supplier of the Year
(EGR awards 2021), is looking for a
n Infrastructure Manager
reporting directly to the
Head of Infrastructure
. This is an opportunity to join a highly creative, rapidly expanding independent software company.

About 1X2 Network

1X2 has been a pioneer in Virtual Gaming products since 2002 and today stands at the forefront of game development with a portfolio of 150+ titles including Virtual Sports, Table Games, Slots, Instant Win, Arcade and Crash Games. The company boasts a wide range of household name clients (over 250 to be precise) including Bet365, BetVictor and Entain (Ladbrokes, Coral, Bwin etc).

Several brands construct 1X2 Network, each one targeting specific market niches:
Iron Dog Studio
,
AD LUNAM
,
Prospect Gaming
and
1X2gaming
. This is complemented by an extensive ecosystem of trusted partners, ensuring clients benefit from both variety and innovation.

Our Culture

1X2 headquarters is in Brighton on the south coast of the UK, with an additional UK office in Shenfield, Essex as well as further locations in Malta and India, and further supported by remote employees across the globe.

We work with energy and passion to produce and distribute successful mobile and online casino games. Our commitment is matched by a strong company culture, with regular social activities and team gatherings that bring our international network together. Travel is occasionally required by 1X2 Network employees when we collaborate and network with other leading iGaming companies at annual conferences and events. Above all, we pride ourselves in offering our employee's a workplace that initiates personal growth with support from a team of confident, experienced and reliable work colleagues.

The Position

We are seeking a talented Infrastructure Manager to join our dynamic team. Your role will involve building, maintaining, and enhancing our production and office infrastructure in alignment with our company's strategic objectives, with a strong focus on availability, reliability, security and configuration automation. You'll provide crucial support to various teams, ensuring the resilience and high availability of our systems. Your expertise in Linux OS, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and container technologies will be instrumental. If you're excited about technology, thrive in a high-performance environment, and possess a deep understanding of modern tech stacks, we'd love to have you on board.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines in line with company strategies.
• Automate infrastructure and configuration as much as possible.
• Provide support to different teams such as DBA and DEV.
• Maintain and build resilient and highly available infrastructures.
• Build, maintain, and improve IaC.
• Assist in testing pipelines and automation.
• Maintain and improve monitoring systems.
• Participate in learning sessions.
• Be part of a tech-growing team and show passion for technologies and an ambition to learn and grow attitude.
• Be an active role in the team.
• Work in an agile way, providing visibility to work and outcomes.
• Manage and guide local infrastructure team
• Monitor system performance and optimize infrastructure for efficiency and reliability

Required Experience:

• Strong knowledge and experience of Linux OS (CentOS, Debian).
• Extensive understanding of infrastructure automation concepts and best practices.
• Experience with different deployment strategies such as red/green, canary, shadow, to ensure stability during the process of adding features.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Bitbucket pipeline, Jenkins.
• Strong experience on cloud platforms (AWS, MS Azure, GCP) and the ability to work with and understand and support different types of architectures (Event-driven, Monolith, Microservices).
• Strong experience with proxy, load balancing, networking going through each layer of the ISO/OSI stack.
• Solid hands-on experience of container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Strong experience with configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or bash scripting.
• Strong experience working in a high-performance/high-availability environment.
• Knowledge of working with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of in-memory data structure store/cache systems such as Redis.
• Hands-on knowledge of monitoring and analytical systems such as the Grafana/Prometheus/Loki stack or ELK.
• A strong understanding of security best practices.
• Good understanding of database technologies to mainly support the DBA team such as MySQL/MariaDB, ProxySQL, MySQL/MariaDB (i.e., Percona or Galera) clustering, data sharding, data backup, and NoSQL DBs such as MongoDB or similar.
• Understanding how to build and deploy Java applications.
• Hands-on experience with the Tomcat web server.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to effectively manage teams and collaborate with other departments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

The Benefits of working at 1X2 Network

• Competitive salary in addition to a company pension and salary sacrifice schemes.
• We offer long-term career prospects with opportunities to grow.
• A fun working atmosphere working amongst an enthusiastic and dynamic team.
• We offer a stimulating work environment in a state-of-the-art, purpose-designed space.
• Regular social activities, including sports/game nights, Friday drinks, as well as our highly anticipated Summer and Christmas parties
• Excellent location: a 2-minute walk from Brighton train station and 5-minutes from the Brighton Lanes, pubs and night life.