Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: Synergy Sports
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Synergy Sports Technology, named by Fast Company as one of the world's top 10 most innovative companies in sports, seeks talented Senior Software Engineers to join our fully remote software team.

This position offers tremendous opportunities to work with the only company that delivers on-demand professional-level basketball, baseball, and hockey analytics linked to supporting video to nearly 1500 pro teams, international, and college teams. Our systems are highly complex and contain petabytes of data and video requiring extremely talented engineers to maintain the scale and efficiency of its products.

We’re looking for an addition to a group of highly experienced engineers in our DevOps solutions and technology team. Working closely with engineering teams to foster a strong culture of collaboration, system development lifecycles, and infrastructure as code practices. Develop and support high-quality digital solutions, with a focus on building operational awareness, supporting configuration management, and ensuring quality. Become integral to a team of software developers, test analysts, and product owners as part of the DevOps Practice.

We are a globally distributed team and we work on an asynchronous model with the flexibility of when and where you want to perform your job, while still being able to attend team calls and regular meetings. Personal initiative and a strong work ethic are highly encouraged and rewarded. The company is deadline-driven and provides a very transparent freedom and responsibilities culture to all our teams. We strongly believe striking the balance between work and family is very important and our culture is focused on the well-being of our team and their loved ones.



**Note: This is a fully remote job and your physical location can be anywhere in Europe.
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**Team Objectives & Responsibilities
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To succeed in this role, you have a diverse background in software development as a senior technical leader. You should have a passion for DevOps, extensive experience of tooling centric to software crafting/hosting, and an expert level understanding of software quality, reliability, release, and scaling principles. You will have experience setting up continuous integration/delivery in agile teams. In addition, you will have operational experience with system administration or site reliability engineering which allows you to craft and maintain resilient systems. You will also have a natural desire to automate all things, coach and guide your peer development community, and a passion for reproducible results.

**There are several key challenge areas:
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- DevOps evangelism and mentorship
- Design, build and improve the software delivery lifecycle for a broad array of products and services.
- Automate the creation and management of our software platforms.
- Craft reusable frameworks that simplify platform, delivery, and observability.
- Enable teams to work efficiently and effectively through technology and ways of working solutions.
- Help drive excellence in development, quality assurance, and operational teams.

**Requirements
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- A technical and people leader, with a passion for results
- Proficient in Kubernetes container orchestration and administration.
- Proficient in deploying and running applications in Kubernetes.
- In depth Cloud experience with either AWS, Azure, or GCP (at least 2 years).
- Detailed knowledge of GNU/Linux OS (at least 3 years of experience w/ administration of production-grade services running on Linux server).
- Application development, technical architecture, or application support experience in an agile/continuous delivery environment.
 -Excellent experience creating Operational Awareness through monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Highly proficient with IaC and Configuration Management tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines (at least 2 years).
 -Strong scripting skills (ability to write Bash script, Python / Ruby / Go / other).
- Excellence with version control systems and application lifecycle management (Git / GitLab).
- Excellent communicator at all levels.
- A team leader with a strong sense of collaboration and personal development.

**Benefits
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- Work remotely on a fully distributed and asynchronous team on large scale problems.
- Big problems, massive impact. We’re working on big scalability challenges and our flat structure means individuals have an incredible amount of impact on everything they touch.
- A-players only. Join our team of best-in-class engineers to disrupt the sports industry and learn, share and grow with great peers on a daily basis.
- A culture geared towards innovation and experimentation. From Deep Learning and Computer vision to Kubernetes and the latest cloud technologies.