Site Reliability Engineer

bet365, one of the world’s leading online gambling companies, is a driving force in the development of enterprise and Internet technology. We have rapidly grown into a global operation, delivering an unrivalled online experience to more than 45 million customers in 20 languages.

The Site Reliability team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join this exciting and vital part of the bet365 family.

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team has 2 focus areas:

1. Develop software to automate the Operational activity required to keep the site running smoothly.
2. Build dashboards, monitoring and alerting to ensure that System Health is understood in real time.

Site Reliability Engineers utilise a range of technologies to complete the required development – Software Engineering is at the core of what we do. We maximise the use of system data to help the business make more informed decisions regarding capacity requirements and application health in the production estate.

We’re looking to deepen and broaden the team’s Software Engineering capability and are keen to talk to candidates from a range of backgrounds – the key things we’re looking for are strong development experience and a keen interest in what it takes to understand the health of complex systems running under significant load in the live environment.

We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology’s greatest challenges and continue to break new ground in software innovation.

What will you be doing?

• Developing bespoke in house tooling using a range of technologies to aid colleagues in IT Operations to complete their duties, e.g. Javascript, Golang, Python, .NET, Powershell, SQL.
• Working with automation and orchestration platforms (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins), to automate manual activity.
• Building sophisticated monitoring dashboards using log data, metrics and events in modern monitoring and graphing technologies (e.g. Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Nimsoft).

What do you need to excel in this role?

• Strong experience developing software and of contemporary Software Engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of contemporary monitoring, analytics tooling and best practice.
• Excellent investigative and diagnosis abilities.
• Strong appetite for learning and applying learning on the job.
• Ability to handle and thrive under pressure, often multitasking and dealing with reprioritisation of work.
• Accountability for your own high performance expectations with ability to learn from mistakes in an open and transparent way.
• Ability to work with autonomy but also to collaborate well and progress work as part of a cross functional team.

We like to reward your effort:

You will have access to our Cycle to Work scheme and gym membership. If your commute to work is too far to cycle we can offer an interest free loan for public transport season tickets to help make the commute more affordable.

We recognise how important family can be and, to help you achieve a good work life balance, we offer maternity/paternity benefits, tax free childcare scheme and gifts for special family occasions. You will receive holidays appropriate to your role plus additional bank holidays, life assurance cover and income protection. We are aware that one day you will be looking to retire, so we also offer matching pension contributions.

We know how to have fun but we also know how to work hard, and your hard work will be rewarded through a bonus scheme specific to your role.

We are conscious at how fast the world is now moving and, more than ever, we need to ensure we are the best we can be. Therefore, so we have invested in an onsite training and development team to make sure we are always at the top of our game. We will also give you a personal Pluralsight account for you to build upon your technical skills at your own pace.