DevOps Engineer - FanDuel, Hybrid & Remote

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans, every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.

The role:

We’re looking for passionate & experienced technologists, strong communicators, and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to both learn from and educate others. In the role of DevOps Engineer working for our Casino vertical, you will work amongst multidisciplinary teams, effectively collaborate with your teammates in tackling complex challenges to create world class products and experiences as we continuously build out our exciting and innovative customer experience within the fast paced and growing Casino environment. You will thrive on the technological advancement of the team and will always work towards its improvement.

What you will do:

• Work with your team leaders to direct your focus and to ensure that you are working on the right problems for the wider team’s benefit.
• Develop infrastructure through reusable code with automated tooling and tests.
• Ensure services are monitored effectively using application and system metrics.
• Understand the complexities of working with multi-tier applications and scaling of distributed systems across data centres and cloud.
• Take ownership of the tasks assigned to you and contribute to the delivery of new features and tooling for both business and technical stakeholders.
• Take security into consideration when working on new features.
• Provide tailored communications to different stakeholders.
• Support engineers in accomplishing their daily work, including building CI/CD pipelines (we use Buildkite), writing Terraform modules or Helm chart, providing advice in application design.
• You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions.
• On-call rotation where required.
• Most importantly, you are: humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.

Qualifications and abilities:

• AWS - everything from IAM, Lambda, Cloudfront, RDS and DynamoDB.
• Docker
• Kubernetes and Helm Terraform
• Code in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Node.JS or Java
• Use of a monitoring platform (we use Datadog) for application observability
• Familiar with Git and GitHub
• Knowing how an app should be designed and built for the cloud
• Being comfortable authoring documentation and sharing with your peers
• Ability to host demo sessions to educate others
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Familiarity working in an Agile environment
• Maintain relationships with other disciplines and stakeholders

FanDuel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential. The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you.

What you can expect:

• 25 days of annual leave;
• Sharesave scheme;
• ”Flexible Benefits” of your choice;
• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);
• Free parking;
• Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy';

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.
By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, in order to consider you for prospective role within the company.