DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will bridge the divide between Development and Operations, and help your team deliver better products faster. You will work closely with a group of coders to implement and maintain best practices in automation, continuous integration, monitoring, and a culture focused on frequent releases of working, useful software. You will become both a mentor to your team and a subject matter expert in your product.

Along with other DevOps Engineers in the Tallinn office, you will report to the DevOps Manager and have the support of a guild of DevOps masters across all of Genius Sports’ locations.

report into the DevOps Manager you will be joining a company that uses Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) in both the development and IT Operations teams. You will collaborate closely with both groups to meet release deadlines. You will play a key role in ensuring frequent releases as we continue to reduce our cycle time, de-risk future releases and provide quick ROI.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

- Working as an embedded member of development and product teams to ensure high performance and reliability across all tiers of the stack.
- Helping to improve our infrastructure platform by automating the manual maintenance tasks and increasing efficiencies with our cloud platform.
- Guiding project teams through technology selection and architecture & security governance.
- Designing, enabling and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for dev teams.
- Defining new patterns and standards as required.
- Mentorship and knowledge transfer to others
- Promoting an open culture and DevOps

PERSONAL SKILLS
- A passion for automation, simplicity, consistency, security, availability, and scalability of systems
- A strong sense of ownership, drive and obsessive attention to detail
- A willingness to keep learning new tools and languages
- Reasonably good English skills – we’re a very international company


TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Experience with Linux & command-line interfaces (cross-platform skills a bonus)
- Comfortable with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Code and scripting - proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Ruby)…
- …and at least one infrastructure language (Cloudformation, Terraform)
- An in-depth understanding of networking protocols such as HTTPS, DNS, TCP/IP
- Experience with Docker and containerization in general
- Proficiency in CI and Build automation – ideally GitLab
- Experience with application performance monitoring tools, centralized logging and alerting systems

BONUS SKILLS (not mandatory, but will definitely help!)
- Experience with Kubernetes, EKS, ECS
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, SaltStack or Ansible
- .NET, PHP application deployment experience
- Experience with a serverless stack (preferably AWS Lambda)

WORK & CAREER ENVIRONMENT

At Genius Sports, you will be working in a supportive, multinational and passionate team. We encourage you to learn and strive towards your professional growth with a generous training budget and dedicated creative/self-development time. We also provide sports/health benefits for all employees.

You will be working out of our spacious modern office in a central Tallinn location – with good access by car and by public transport, convenient for both city-dwellers and those who prefer the open countryside, and with a great variety of lunch spots within walking distance! You will also have lots of events and activities during which to get to know your colleagues, from regular out-of-office events to in-house Playstation tournaments and sports-tracking competitions.

For further information or details, feel free to contact us!