What You’ll Be Doing Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the countries we’re deployed in as well as streamlining processes to deploy to new countries in the future Continuously improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency with a focus on optimising resource utilisation reducing costs and streamlining environment provisioning through GitOps-first practices Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling alerting pipelines and Grafana dashboards covering metrics logs traces and real user monitoring (RUM) Own weekend on-call operations triaging and responding to production incidents performing root cause analysis and driving post-incident reviews Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signal quality with attention to preventing alert fatigue waterfall alerting and notification flooding Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services and use them to drive reliability improvements and on-call prioritisation Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits as well as perform our own internal security sweeps Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries Mentoring less experienced team members What You’ll Bring 3+ years DevOps / SRE / platform engineering experience Must be based in Europe Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project Experienced with cloud platforms especially AWS including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code particularly Terraform Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash Python or Golang experience with Rust is a plus Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics logs distributed traces and profiling for example Prometheus Loki Tempo Pyroscope and OpenTelemetry Experience with real user monitoring (RUM) with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus Proven on-call and incident response experience comfortable triaging production issues under pressure leading post-mortems and driving follow-up actions Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise prevent alert fatigue and avoid waterfall alerting patterns Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments Solid networking knowledge especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments A strong understanding of cache including CDN HTTP cache Redis / Memcached Excellent troubleshooting skills including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous Our stack Languages Java / Spring Boot Node.js Python JavaScript Database Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Community Cache ElastiCache Redis Valkey Messaging Apache RocketMQ AutoMQ Kafka Networking & Proxy Nginx Kong Cilium eBPF Orchestration & GitOps Docker Kubernetes (EKS) ArgoCD Helm Computing & Storage AWS EC2 VPC AWS Lambda EBS S3 CI/CD Jenkins GitHub Actions Metrics Prometheus Mimir Grafana Alertmanager Logs Loki Vector Traces Tempo OpenTelemetry Alloy Profiling Pyroscope RUM Grafana Faro OpenTelemetry SDK Infrastructure as Code Terraform CDN & Edge Cloudflare AWS CloudFront AWS CloudWatch What’s In It For You Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter 28 days paid annual leave Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this Referral bonuses & flash bonuses Top of the line equipment Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities Interview process Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team Online assessment via Hackerrank Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each not separate days) If you’re interested we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process) and we aim to respond within 48 hours.