Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Tombola

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Competitive salary

Sunderland

Hybrid

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Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
What will you be doing?
You’ll be making a huge impact on our products and player experience, helping to ensure our systems are always reliable and performant. This is a brilliant opportunity to take on a leadership role, mentor others, and help shape the direction of our technical teams. You’ll work alongside a team that values innovation, creativity, and a genuinely great work-life balance.
You’ll be a key part of ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our critical systems and services. A typical day might look like this:
Ensuring system uptime by monitoring and maintaining the availability and reliability of our services.
Leading the team in implementing automation, monitoring, and incident response strategies.
Automating manual tasks and using tools like Terraform and Git to automate our infrastructure.
Developing and maintaining automated deployment pipelines to streamline releases.
Collaborating with development teams to ensure new features are designed with reliability in mind.
Experience:
Proven experience in a similar SRE role, particularly in a public cloud environment like AWS.
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
Experience with CI/CD and deployment management.
A strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting.
Experience with containerisation technologies like Docker.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with multidisciplinary teams.
Bonus experience:
Skills in database management.
Experience with Microservices Architecture.
Proficiency in integrating security practices into the DevOps process.
Familiarity with various programming languages and tech stacks.
What do we offer?
We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!
As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!
As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.

Culture overview

We’re ambitious, we’re growing quickly and we’re looking for awesome people to join our already awesome team. #tombolalife is a lot of fun - we take pride in what we do, we work hard and we work together. We’re excited about the future and the team that will make an impact.

Employee benefits

Bonus Scheme
Cycle To Work
Flexible Working
Free Food
Free Parking
Gym Membership
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare

Office vibe

City Centre
Friday Drinks
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events

Location

Leadership

James Conway
Director of Technology

Tech overview

Tombola is one of the rare gaming operators with a fully cloud-native stack, running on AWS to deliver “infinite” scalability and cutting-edge performance across multiple European territories. At Tombola, we're not just another player in the game; we're the creators of the game. Our approach is revolutionary – we craft every element of our software in-house, from concept to execution. We take pride in the ingenuity of our developers and designers, united by their passion for pushing boundaries and shaping the future.

Engineering principles

Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Continuous integration
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Rapid release cycles
Test Driven Development
Unit testing

Company tech stack

java
Java
nodejs
Node.js
ios
iOS
aws
AWS
windows
Windows
linux
Linux
vue.js
Vue.Js
bash
Bash
javascript
JavaScript
html5
HTML5
csharp
C#
powershell
PowerShell
asp-net
ASP.Net
typescript
TypeScript
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