At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape system stability and improve performance for a leading online gambling platform.
- Company: Join bet365, a global leader in online gambling with a culture of creativity and innovation.
- Benefits: Hybrid work options, competitive salary, and opportunities for personal growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with mentorship opportunities and a focus on continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on system reliability while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in software engineering with Python, Golang, or JavaScript; knowledge of SRE principles.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
hackajob is partnering directly with bet365 to hire for this role.
Company Description
We're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000.
Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 10,000 people and serve over 120 million customers in 26 languages.
We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity.
This offers employees a wealth of growth opportunities, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling.
As a forward-thinking company, we're breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what's possible for our global worldwide.
Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, featuring more than 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year.
With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe (750,000), we handle over 6 million HTTP requests daily and process more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak.
Job Description
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will shape the stability of the systems behind every click, query and live change.
Our Site Reliability team protects and improves the availability, performance and resilience of the systems that support our global product.
This role combines software engineering, automation and incident response to reduce toil, sharpen observability and strengthen service health across a complex technical estate.
You will work with Open Telemetry, logging, telemetry and automation to surface issues faster and improve operational control.
The role also includes using AI tools, LLM platforms and coding assistants to boost productivity, support autonomous operations and improve system insight.
Working across SRE, development and IT Operations, you will help embed reliability throughout the software development lifecycle, lead technical work and share knowledge that lifts standards across the wider engineering community.
This role is eligible for inclusion in the company's hybrid work from home policy.
Qualifications
Software engineering background with Python, Golang, Java Script or similar language.
Knowledge of modern development practices, including testing, source control and delivery lifecycles.
An understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, reliability measurement and incident management.
Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Open Telemetry, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana or Pager Duty.
Proficiency in shell scripting for automation and system management.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible.
Knowledge of Cloudflare or a comparable edge platform, including DNS, CDN, WAF, DDo S protection and traffic management.
Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems across edge, network, platform, application, dependency and origin layers.
Experience working in a large-scale, 24/7 enterprise where uptime, performance and stability are critical.
Practical experience using LLM platforms and coding assistants safely to improve productivity, quality and root-cause analysis.
Additional Information
Develop and maintain resilient tools, operational APIs and automation for effective system management.
Use orchestration and scripting to remove manual activity, reduce toil and improve operational consistency.
Write and contribute to code, telemetry and instrumentation that improve service reliability and observability.
Build dashboards and operational views using telemetry from Grafana, Splunk, New Relic and related platforms.
Configure and manage Cloudflare edge services using Infrastructure as Code and integrate edge telemetry with observability platforms.
Diagnose incidents end to end, trace issues from the edge through to origin systems and coordinate effective remediation.
Participate in live incident response, post-mortems and root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
Maintain and administer monitoring, alerting, APM and analytics toolsets, including Pager Duty workflows.
Drive initiatives that improve reliability, observability, performance and continuous improvement across teams.
Mentor colleagues, share knowledge and work with IT Operations to deliver tooling that increases business value.
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At bet365, we're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued.
Where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of their background.
We're Never Ordinary, and we're always striving to be better.
If you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please don't hesitate to reach out.
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