Senior Developer – Automation, Monitoring
Allwyn UK
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Watford • United Kingdom
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About the role
- As a senior you will drive the design, deployment, and management of the automation and monitoring platforms to support our applications and services.
- Establish and enforce best practices for security, compliance, and cost management.
- Build & maintain the monitoring and alerting infrastructure and configuration.
- Develop dashboards to visualise key information to business stakeholders.
- Configure automation for new system integrations using existing custom frameworks and manage job configurations using Control-M scheduling.
- Develop new automated processes making use of programming knowledge.
- Maintain a fundamental understanding of the Allwyn infrastructure and gaming platforms to aid with capacity planning and troubleshooting.
- Build GitHub Actions automations to deploy code into test & production environments
Requirements
- Experience with application monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, along with administration skills in Sensu, Logz.io: Modern Observability Powered by AI , Consul, Hashicorp Vault, Grafana, Graphite & InfluxDB, or equivalents. Some experience with ServiceNow ITOM would be a bonus.
- Comprehensive practical experience with AWS, use of Terraform & Ansible and past use of ECS & Fargate, containerisation using Docker to build custom images. Experience using serverless technologies, for example Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge.
- Exhibit strong object-oriented programming skills in Python, with practical experience in writing Lambda functions and/or complex scripts.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools, code linting, and experience with GitHub Actions.
- Significant experience with low-level *nix administration and troubleshooting.
- Possess a strong understanding of network and web technologies, including the TCP/IP stack, HTTP, HTTPS, RESTful APIs, certificates & encryption.
- Have some web development experience using modern technologies, preferably NodeJS, Java or equivalent.
- Experience using JIRA and Confluence for project management and collaboration.
- Have a basic understanding of Azure services.
- Be an excellent communicator, able to collaborate at different levels, across diverse skill teams.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset, capable of assessing risks and proposing effective mitigation actions based on professional judgement.
- Be highly self-motivated, proactive, and capable of working both independently and as part of a team.
- Handle ambiguity, competing requirements, and shifting priorities. Be open to self-disruption, modernization, and simplification.
- Demonstrate a desire for consistency and automation of everything.
Benefits
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
- 26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days (and bank holidays)
- Single Private Health Cover
- Complimentary Private Medical
- Income Protection
- Flexible Benefits – EV Scheme, Money Coach, Will Writing, Mortgage Advice, Dental and Eye Care Schemes.
- Enhanced Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity, Adoption)
- Wellness Allowance £500
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted Health Assessments
- Volunteering Days
- Matched Funding
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
automationmonitoringprogrammingobject-oriented programmingweb developmentnetwork technologieslow-level *nix administrationserverless technologiesCI/CDcost management
Soft Skills
communicationanalytical skillsproblem-solvingself-motivatedproactivecollaborationstrategic mindsetability to handle ambiguitydesire for consistencyability to work independently