Who are we?
Smarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over £29 billion in volume since 2010. Our company mission is to fix the betting industry with the best products and best prices. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a transparent platform that offers the best value for bettors, with the fairest odds, best technology and a superior customer experience.
Smarkets is a Series B tech company that brings a professional, product-led approach to our mission. We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.
Join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our betting trading technology landscape.
Role expectations and responsibilities
Are you ready to revolutionize the heartbeat of our real-time distributed exchange systems? Join us as a DevOps Engineer, where your role isn't just about maintaining; it's about crafting and fortifying the backbone of our dynamic, 24/7 highly available software services infrastructure.
In this thrilling landscape, we thrive on self-service, automation, scalability, and the pursuit of elite engineering velocity. As the guardians of high availability, we place a premium on testability, reproducibility, and a robust suite of monitoring and alerting tools.
Your canvas? A tech stack featuring K8S services built in C++, Javascript, Rust, and Python, with PostgreSQL as our stalwart DBMS and Apache Kafka for seamless queuing. Our CI/CD workflows dance to the beats of Nix, Jenkins, and GitLab CI. And here’s the kicker – we breathe life into our infrastructure with the magic of Ansible and Terraform, sculpting a high-scale Kubernetes-based microservices haven within the realms of AWS cloud.
Role Requirements
- You have commercial experience working with K8S and any of following: Jenkins, GitLab, Grafana, AWS, ELK logging stack, Prometheus
- You are a key player maintaining and augmenting our existing and new backend services
- You have a solid knowledge of cloud-based application and services architecture patterns, the capabilities of several tech stacks - including several languages
- You have fundamental system administration on linux-based Operating system
- You are proficient in Python and Bash scripting
- You have commercial work experience using PostgreSQL database, Kafka, Redis data store
- You enjoy collaborating with other team members to create solutions
- You are great at balancing the act between perfect/idealistic design and the pragmatic need of the short term goals
- You actively help defining and reinforcing the standard for engineering best practices
- You explore and promote the next big technologies that will keep the company’s edge
- You have 4 years+ experience in DevOps engineering
Our Values
- Push to win
- Make others better
- Give a shit
- Be a pro
- Bring the energy
Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what’s expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard.
We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development.
These include:
- Stock options which vests over 4 years
- Pension scheme - an impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same
- Health insurance
- Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee and soft drinks also included)
- We're a member of a cycle to work scheme
- We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training
- 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!
- Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home
- 20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year
- We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don't need to worry about what to make or buy for lunch as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house chef Alex!
What happens next
We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around.
- CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible
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HackerRank Exercise - At home test to show off your skills
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Let’s chat - Quick chat with our team about your experience and the role
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Technical Interview - Live Technical Interview + Experience and Mindset Chat
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In Office Interview - Lunch with other colleagues in the team + CEO Chat
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