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About Altenar

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.

Job Description

The Infrastructure Engineer shall bring first-rate technical design and implementation skills in the fields of computer server operating systems, storage and networking together with the supporting knowledge of automation tools.  The role shall work closely with various Technology teams to deliver reliable, scalable and serviceable technical infrastructure to the Altenar product portfolio in a repeatable way.  The role demands a combination of inquisitive, conscientious and highly-organized behaviours to complement the required technical skills with a consistent approach to system performance measurement and security by design throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

The Infrastructure Engineer is part of the collective within Altenar that uses DevOps practices and must be an effective communicator, and able to collaborate across teams using processes such as the Architecture Review and other peer review.  The role requires the person to be fanatical about design and documentation and able to develop a deep understanding of the system’s norm to allow successful complex troubleshooting.  

What you’d be responsible for:

• Design, creation, maintenance of shared systems such as NTP, DNS, monitoring clusters, log aggregation clusters
• Deployment, operation and maintenance of site networks using multi-vendor technology such as hardware loadbalancing, 10G/40G Ethernet switching, inter-VLAN or microsegmentation firewalling, IP routing. 
• Operate and support Altenar wide-area network connectivity, coordinate with and support office internetworking.
• Manage effective resource utilization, segregation and billing on Altenar public cloud accounts
• Operate and support Altenar’s on-premise and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters
• Provide infrastructure expertise to the DevOp collective, support Automation team in environment preparation and as escalation for troubleshooting.
• Embracing innovation and experimentation in a structured way
• Communicating effectively with managers, leaders and subject-matter experts in a matrix organization with overlapping areas of ownership 
• Plan work, report on progress, escalate blockers.
• Having a strong sense of duty and exercising duty of care beyond the immediate fix
• Being guided by the principles of security by design and serviceability in mind to ensure that agility does not come at the expense of disproportionate risk or the accumulation of technical debt.
• Being trustworthy and accountable in the handling of company data and physical assets 

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