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Join SportPursuit, a leader in sports retail, and propel your DevOps career while enjoying unparalleled work flexibility and benefits
Overview
Salary
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Location
UK - Remote/Hybrid
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Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary:
SportPursuit is revolutionizing the online sports retail industry since 2011, offering the best deals in sports and outdoor gear to its 7 million members worldwide. With a mission to inspire adventures with affordable, high-quality equipment, SportPursuit is a vibrant place to work, where every team member plays a significant role in the company's growth.
- Manage and scale the production environment for a growing customer base and product line.
- Develop monitoring systems with the engineering team for new services.
- Supervise a team member and enhance the reliability and quality of software.
- Measure and optimize system performance.
- Handle daily DevOps tasks, including microservice infrastructure setup.
- Experience with ELK, MySQL, Postgresql, Redshift, PHP, Python, Docker, AWS Lambda, AWS, Redis, Kubernetes is essential.
- Proficiency in scripting and configuration tools like Terraform.
- Interest or experience in SRE methodologies.
The organisation - SportPursuit fuels sporting adventure with affordable, great quality kit. Founded in 2011, SportPursuit is an innovative online retailer with over 7 million members across the UK, Europe and beyond. We hunt down the best deals available online on a wide range of quality sports and outdoor brands and create an inspiring, personalised shopping experience for each customer. Everyone in the SportPursuit team has the opportunity to make a difference and help grow the business.
The role - In this role we're keen to make sure that you can help us maintain a scalable and reliable production environment for running software services while the rest of the business grows our customer base and product offering. You will be responsible for the production environment by creating monitoring and working with engineering team to create monitoring for services they create. You will also manage one other team member, improve reliability, quality of our software, measure and optimise system performance, and help with daily DevOps team tasks like setting up the infrastructure for microservices.
Job requirements - You must have experience with technologies like ELK, MySQL, Postgresql, Redshift, PHP, Python, Docker, AWS Lambda, AWS, Redis, Kubernetes. You should also have experience of scripting languages beyond simple scripts, familiarity with Terraform or similar configuration/infrastructure as code tools, and experience working with SRE problems or interested in moving into that field.
Benefits - We offer a friendly and dynamic working environment with a Core Hours working pattern, 25 days of holiday a year as standard with the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days extra, flexible Bank Holidays, the ability to work anywhere in the world for up to 30 working days a year, a workplace pension, a Learning and Development budget available to all employees, staff discount for access to great quality kit, Lunch & Learn sessions, socials with a budget that grows every time we hit budget, and a hybrid working model where we are mostly remote. When you're in the office we'll have lots of free food and drink - help yourself to tea and coffee as well as healthy snacks and fresh fruit. Other treats are also on hand - Chocolate Hobnobs are an office favourite.
