Weekend DevOps Engineer

• 3+ years DevOps / platform engineering experience • Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM • Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project • Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production • Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform • Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash, Python, or Golang; experience with Rust is a plus • Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling, for example Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry • Experience with real user monitoring (RUM), with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus • Proven on-call and incident response experience, comfortable triaging production issues under pressure, leading post-mortems, and driving follow-up actions • Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise, prevent alert fatigue, and avoid waterfall alerting patterns • Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work • Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus, as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments • Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol • Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments • A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached • Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation, JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous

What you’ll be doing • Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals; covering Saturday, Sunday and Monday (5 days in total with flexibility in your days off) as a Weekend SRE • Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the countries we’re deployed in, as well as streamlining processes to deploy to new countries in the future • Continuously improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency, with a focus on optimising resource utilisation, reducing costs, and streamlining environment provisioning through GitOps-first practices • Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards covering metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring (RUM) • Own weekend on-call operations, triaging and responding to production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving post-incident reviews • Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signal quality, with attention to preventing alert fatigue, waterfall alerting, and notification flooding • Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services, and use them to drive reliability improvements and on-call prioritisation • Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities • Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits as well as perform our own internal security sweeps • Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries • Mentoring less experienced team members What you’ll bring • 3+ years DevOps / platform engineering experience • Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM • Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project • Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production • Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform • Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash, Python, or Golang; experience with Rust is a plus • Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling, for example Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry • Experience with real user monitoring (RUM), with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus • Proven on-call and incident response experience, comfortable triaging production issues under pressure, leading post-mortems, and driving follow-up actions • Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise, prevent alert fatigue, and avoid waterfall alerting patterns • Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work • Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus, as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments • Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol • Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments • A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached • Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation, JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous Our stack • Languages: Java / Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, JavaScript • Database: Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL Community • Cache: ElastiCache, Redis, Valkey • Messaging: Apache RocketMQ, AutoMQ, Kafka • Networking & Proxy: Nginx, Kong, Cilium, eBPF • Orchestration & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Helm • Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3 • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions • Metrics: Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager • Logs: Loki, Vector • Traces: Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Alloy • Profiling: Pyroscope • RUM: Grafana Faro, OpenTelemetry SDK • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform • CDN & Edge: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront • AWS CloudWatch What’s in it for you • Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter • 28 days paid annual leave • Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this • Referral bonuses & flash bonuses • Top of the line equipment • Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities Interview process • Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team • Online assessment via Hackerrank • Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days) If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours. Originally posted on Himalayas Site-Reliability-Engineer, DevOps-Engineer, SRE, Platform-Engineer, Cloud-Engineer, Mid-Level-DevOps-Engineer