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.

What you'll be getting up to: 

We are looking to hire a talented 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 part of the Network Engineering team, you will proactively ensure the stability, resilience and scale of our services by automation, testing and engineering. You will play a pivotal role 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.

List of skills we think you'll need:

• Leadership skills. 
• Ability to motivate and lead personal development plans for your team.
• Proficient in agile practices.  
• Driving change and handling difficult situations
• Adaptability to shifting directions, circumstances and priorities. 
• Effective communication skills. 
• Problem solving. 
• Defining and maintaining processes. 

Technical skills 

• Deep understanding of network protocols, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and other protocols commonly used in enterprise networks.
• Deep knowledge of general routing, load balancing and switching.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex network issues like network performance issues
• Experience with firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures.
• Able to review network design and architecture documents.
• Experience with ops culture and good understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards.
• Design: strong network design skills, including the ability to design and implement network architectures that meet the needs of the organization.
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP
• Well-versed in network automation tools and techniques, including scripting or programming languages like Ansible and Python.

Mindset:

• Take ownership and pride in the work you deliver.
• Ensure what is delivered is of quality and takes into account security, capacity and performance. 
• Automate, continuously iterate and improve on existing technologies whilst keeping up-to-date with the latest trends to keep us ahead of the game. 
• Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas, innovation and continuous improvement. Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate.
• Improve the team skillset by increasing and sharing knowledge thus setting the benchmark of quality and precision engineering. 
• Understand the importance of and be a strong advocate for non-functionals, e.g. monitoring, alerting, logging etc.

**Applications in English please

Diversity & Inclusion 

We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing.