Overview

Position Title:Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Company:Sky Betting & Gaming

Location:Leeds, England, UK

Job Description:

As a Principal engineer within the Enterprise Tooling area of the Infrastructure tribe, you will be leading improvements and initiatives of Sky Betting & Gaming’s internal PaaS toolset. The role requires an excellent communicator who is excited and passionate about technology, with an ability to communicate technical information to non-experts.

Responsibilities:

  • The Principal Engineer will be involved in projects both working within the squads, and also on their own depending on the nature of the project being delivered.
  • The ideal candidate will be able to look at a system end to end and make informed recommendations on how to implement improvements for its stability, scalability and performance.
  • Designing, developing, supporting and optimising the toolset, including Elasticsearch ECE clusters, Hashicorp Vault, terraform, AWS, in-house developed applications, Kafka, Chef, Jenkins, AWS and Artifactory.
  • Designing and implementing projects for new automation and shared tooling.
  • Work closely with other teams, implementing changes that help improve speed and release quality.
  • Responsible for reviews of platform code changes, approving or suggesting improvements to authors as appropriate.
  • Own issues from initial diagnosis through to implementation of a fix.
  • Challenge and suggest improvements to existing systems or processes on an ongoing basis.
  • Own improvements to the tools, following the software development lifecycle through test and into live.
  • Keep up to date with the latest open-source technology and best practise, and suggest areas where new tools or practise can help the business achieve its goals.

Requirements:

  • Planning our work via Sprint Planning, Jira and Kanban boards.
  • Work within our ITIL service management framework.
  • Identify areas where we can make efficiencies and avoid future workload by suggesting solutions that complement our existing tooling strategy.
  • Inception sessions to collaborate on solutions and break down our project epics into stories.
  • Continuous Delivery using the toolset we maintain.
  • Retrospective sessions to agree how we can improve technical delivery, operational support and team processes.

About Sky Betting & Gaming

We’re a tech and digital company that quickly grew to become a market leader in the betting and gaming world. How? By understanding what our players want, and then giving it to them. Bigger. Bolder. Better.