Sportserve forms part of a remarkable group of B2C sports betting and B2B sportsbook technology companies, focused on delivering first class sports betting experiences and casino products for our users worldwide. Along with Sportion, TechSpirit, Standard Focus and Sportelligent, we are the driving force behind the world renowned sports betting company and our flagship brand, Dafabet.

Since launching our global hiring initiative, we now employ over 2,000 people worldwide, offering exciting career paths in Technology, Trading, Operations and Media. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and international culture that embraces the global community and acts locally. We offer office based, hybrid and remote work on permanent and consultancy contracts all over the world, making us the true global employer of choice.

We are looking to hire a Lead Engineer to join our global team in Technology. This is a challenging, fast-paced and exciting environment, with plenty of opportunities to influence and grow the technology area.

As our Lead Engineer, you will build and lead the SRE Engineering team in order to automate and enhance existing processes and to enable teams to reduce their time to delivery, whilst ensuring the stability, resilience and scale of our services. You will work alongside all areas of technology to ensure that technical solutions are aligned across teams, deliver value to the customers as well as ensuring consistent monitoring, logging and alerting.

In addition, the Lead Engineer is responsible for building capability and maturing operational ways of working across multiple cross-functional teams, with focus on technical excellence and a high-performance culture.

What you'll be getting up to:

• Provide leadership and guidance across the SRE team; motivating and driving the team with technical leadership acting as a subject matter expert and leading best practice techniques.
• To lead the SRE team in ensuring technical assurance in significant projects, for the delivery of quality technical deliverables, which may involve several teams or technologies.
• To oversee the SRE team to ensure they are involved in every step of the application software development lifecycle, including product design, development, testing, and transition into operation.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the SRE team to improve their skillset, increase knowledge and set the benchmark of quality and precision engineering.
• Oversee the implementation of service transition and change and release process changes, ensuring that processes are reviewed and improved with onus on optimisation.
• Evaluate risks and defects, analysing specifications, and customising applications for specific customer needs.
• Work with technology teams to produce and maintain standards, guidelines, and pattern catalogue.
• Measuring and driving delivery and quality improvements through the capture and analysis of metrics.
• Build innovative prototypes and lead technology teams to develop quality solutions, by translating architectural designs into lower level implementation details, helping implement user stories if required.
• To lead and influence teams to ensure quality and operational excellence, and to ensure teams are aligned to design patterns and design collateral.
• Work with Engineering management to drive through best practice, techniques and technology both on the team and around the company.
• Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas, innovation and continuous improvements.
• Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate.
• Understand the importance of and be a strong advocate for non-functionals, for example monitoring, alerting, logging etc.
• Define adequate strategies to deal with technical debt.
• Collaborate with the operational teams to enhance company’s Incident and Problem management capabilities.
• Accountable for the quality of the implementation and deployment of the team’s work.
• Accountable for the security, capacity and performance of the system.
• Act as escalation point in Incident management processes.
• Take ownership of RCA activities in your respective area.
• Learn from your experiences, adopting a continuous improvement mindset to help make better decisions.
  

List of skills and requirements we think you'll need:

• Proficient in agile practices
• Demonstrable experience of leadership in complex, cross-company projects to deliver operational improvements
• Strong engineering background acquired during a previous hands-on development role
• Managerial and leadership skills, able to motivate and lead personal development plans for employees
• Driving change and handling difficult situations
• Excellent command of the English language - written & spoken.

A strong proficiency in the following technologies, including but not limited to:

• Web servers - Apache, nginx, IIS, Drupal
• Databases - Oracle, MYSQL, MSSQL
• Traffic Management - F5, Haproxy, Keepalived
• CDNs - CDNetworks, Akamai, Incapsula
• Scripting - Bash, Bat, Python, Perl
• Programming Languages - PHP, .NET, Java, JS, Ruby, Flutter
• Caching - Redis, Memcached, Varnish
• APIs - REST, JSON, SOAP
• CI/CD - gitlab, jenkins, ansible, terraform
• Monitoring and Observability - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Prometheus, PRTG

List of skills we'd love you to have:

• OS Administration - Windows, Linux
• Virtualisation and Orchestration - VMware, Docker, Kubernetes
• Networking - Cisco, Brocade
• Cloud - Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
• Testing - Testrails, K6, Gatling
• Security - Trellix, Fireeye, OKTA, Cisco Anyconnect, entrust

**We warmly invite applications in English.

Diversity & Inclusion at Sportserve

At Sportserve, we are deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe in building a team that reflects a wide array of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. Embracing diversity not only enriches our work culture but also drives innovation and excellence. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where everyone’s contribution is valued and respected.

If you’re a passionate about technology and looking to start your career in an international, forward-thinking Sports Betting company, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to become part of our exciting journey!