DevOps Automation Engineer

Company Description
Altenar is a provider of sportsbook software and services to licensed gaming operators. Ranging from ‘software-only’ product offers to the provision of a fully managed sports betting platform stack, Altenar offers proven stability coupled with a flexible and personalised service. Our software is developed and operated in-house, whilst being powered by premium quality data feeds.

DevOps Automation Engineer
The DevOps Automation Engineer shall work closely with various Technology teams to deliver reliable, scalable and serviceable technical environments that implement Altenar’s product portfolio. The role shall be highly technical and shall be responsible for research, design, implementation through automation, support and systems engineering assignments. A consistent approach to performance and measurement shall underpin all activities. Information security considerations shall be a primary obligation of the role.

The role demands pipeline automation skills, with strong communication and collaboration skills and requires motivation to achieve results in a dynamic business environment.

Tasks:

• Streamlined functioning of the software deployment pipeline


• Setup and tear-down of product-oriented environments for development, quality assurance, staging, pre-production and production


• Embracing innovation and experimentation in a structured way and empowering the team to think creatively


• Communicating effectively with peer managers, leaders and subject-matter experts in a matrix organization with overlapping areas of ownership


• Coaching people in the use of different processes and tools


• Embracing innovation and experimentation in a structured way


• Communicating effectively with peer leaders and subject-matter experts in a matrix organization with overlapping areas of ownership


• Working in a highly technical, multicultural environment

Qualifications:

• Master or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.


• CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator


• Proven experience in systems engineering in a DevOps environment, where automation and release automation played a major role.


• Proven experience engineering scalable cloud and virtual services

Desirable Experience / Skills:

• Hands on experience with Google Cloud (GC) or other cloud providers


• Experience with message queues such as NATS, RabbitMQ, Kafka


• Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus)


• Experience with DB administration is a plus (MSSQL and NoSQL MongoDB)


• MS Build, Docker build


• Knowledge of virtual server environments: VMWare, Google Compute Engine


• NoSql database experience: MongoDB

Benefits:

• Stable and flexible working environment


• Work-life balance


• Career growth opportunity


• Training and professional development events


• Health insurance


• Competitive remuneration and benefits


• Teamwork and accountability


• Sense of community and defined company culture


• International work environment


• Diverse workplace


• Modern comfortable office in the centre of St Julians


• Corporate parking near our office


• Gym reimbursement

Altenar Ltd (Malta) - KMP-87143