DevOps Engineer

1 month ago


London UK, UK, United Kingdom PlayMeTech Full time

About Us:


PlayMeTech is a proprietary trading firm and alternative investment manager, focused on quantitative and fundamental sports trading. With professionals across Europe, Asia, and the USA, our group combines deep research with proprietary, tech-driven methodologies to trade on all major public exchanges and markets, generating risk-adjusted returns. Our trading philosophy is fuelled by a passion for competitive sports and quantitative research. By applying predictive systems and our seasoned knowledge of public sports markets, we aim to deliver sustainable, short- and long-term value for partners and investors with minimal correlation to traditional financial markets. PlayMeTech executes systematic strategies on the world’s most frequently played sports, identifying market inefficiencies and diversifying capital across various wagering categories, including spreads, totals, and more.



Key Responsibilities:


  • Manage the existing AWS infrastructure
  • Linux systems and network administration, including high-performance configuration and troubleshooting
  • Install, configure, update, and troubleshoot services such as OS-level issues, web servers, database servers, application servers, and VPN (e.g., Apache, MySQL, Postgres, SSH, DNS, OpenVPN)
  • Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Set up and troubleshoot filesystem/database backups
  • Security compliance and hardening
  • Identify and document server compromises, and enhance security through DevSecOps practices
  • Proactively participate in process improvement and automation initiatives
  • Oversee CI/CD pipelines using CodeBuild and GitHub Actions
  • Sustain the process of knowledge sharing with related teams
  • Participate in releases and deployments to various environments
  • Maintain detailed documentation for post-incident root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Communication with users and stakeholders
  • Provide out-of-hours on-call support



Skills / Competencies Required:


  • 4+ years of relevant experience in a DevOps role
  • Expertise in managing production systems
  • Proficient with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and Helm
  • Good Python development skills
  • Strong knowledge of microservices architecture
  • Advanced experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and CodeBuild
  • Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible.
  • Skilled in monitoring and observability systems: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
  • Strong understanding of networking and Unix-based operating systems
  • Ability to work across multiple projects in an agile environment
  • Excellent communication skills



Desirable skills:


  • Experience of using Ansible
  • Experience of developing applications in Python
  • Experience with MySQL, Postgres, and MongoDB
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Pulumi and Terraform
  • Exposure to high-frequency trading and real-time data handling



Benefits:

  • Salary: £80,000+
  • Performance-based bonus scheme
  • 30 days of holiday (exclusive of bank holidays)
  • Private health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and accident insurance


The successful candidate must be available to commence employment in January 2025.


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