Cloud Engineer

We are evoke, one of the world’s leading betting and gaming companies. The Group owns and operates internationally renowned brands including William Hill, 888, and Mr Green and we’re looking for a Cloud engineer (with programming skills) to join Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team whose mission is to provide highly performant and available services to our customers. Our services and infrastructure need to be resilient - must be able to withstand and recover quickly when pushed to their absolute limits.

To do this we need people who will own it, give a damn, never settle, and care about continuous improvement. We are looking for people who, besides programming skills, have experience in provisioning infrastructure using public cloud provider, know how to automate deployment process and have experience in application and infrastructure monitoring.

The tech stack used within the team:

programming language: JavaScript with TypeScript, public cloud: AWS (services: ECS, EKS, ECR, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS and many more), IaC: Terraform, CI/CD: GitLab CI, Github Actions, monitoring tool: New Relic

What you will be doing:

Implementing internal tools to automate manual workflows Contributing to generic CI/CD pipelines used across teams

Developing bot and fraud prevention solutions

Improving the reliability of Evoke systems

Proposing improvements for graceful service degradation

Enhancing monitoring (primarily in New Relic)

Supporting continuous improvement by evaluating new technologies and presenting them for architectural review

Stress-testing systems and infrastructure to identify weaknesses

Who we are looking for:

We are committed to responsible gambling, and we are looking for people who can support our ethos. To apply to this post, you will have:

• Great communication skills with experience with high traffic systems and products, understanding enterprise applications operational aspects (scalability, monitoring, zero downtime upgrades etc.)
• Good knowledge of and experience with JS
• Experience with at least one public cloud provider (preferably AWS)
• Understanding of concepts and experience with CI/CD (preferably GitLab CI)

What we offer

Our roles offer more than just a job, you’ll become part of the evoke family! We have created an environment where our people can thrive. Check out some fantastic benefits on offer:

Financial: You’ll be compensated a competitive base salary and benefits.

Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well-being, offering fully paid private healthcare via Lux Med.

Life assurance: Safeguarding your financial future and offering peace of mind with a company-sponsored life assurance plan.

Wellbeing events: Including workshops, webinars; Psychological Helpline for you and your loved ones; access to psychological platforms such as Unmind.

Social activities: We love a chance to share knowledge and have fun, coordinating meetups, quality questions events and hackathons.

Free parking: You’ll have access to underground parking space for cars, motorcycles and bikes.

Other perks: Fully paid Multisport passor MyBenefit cafeteria points, employee referral program, and an extra day off for your birthday. We also offer free English and Polish classes for our colleagues!

Hybrid working: Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!

More about Grand Parade

We’re a business that embraces change and progress. With a rich history behind us, we’ve learned a lot and have led the industry in many ways. Now part of evoke, we are marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business.

Our culture is all about creating great experiences, for both our customers and our people. You’ll benefit from flexibility and trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you. By investing in you, we’ll raise our game. Across all that we do, we aim for excellence, encourage creativity, and have fun.

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At evoke, we prioritise diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth. We win together by working as one inclusive team to achieve great things.

So, what’s next? The first step in the recruitment process is to submit your online application, which will be followed by an initial screening call with our Talent Acquisition team, and if successful, you will then be invited to interview.

Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke family!