Grand Parade, a part of William Hill company, is looking to hire a System Administrator.
Who we are and what do we do in Grand Parade?
Grand Parade is a part of William Hill Group – a leading global betting company. We are a top Cracow-based software house specializing in building advanced systems for online sports betting, gaming and media industries in Europe, USA and Australia. The solutions built by Grand Parade are used by tens of millions of users every day and our customers include the great majority of key businesses in the gaming field.
What challenges we are facing every day?
- Complex real- time web apps
- Interactive dashboards and scoreboards supporting thousands of requests per second
- Real- time data processing
- More than 20 million users daily
- Gigabytes of data per day
Responsibilities include:
- Having impact on the organization introducing improvements to processes, technologies, etc.
- Working on large projects
- Analyzing running systems in search of potential issues
- Solving problems on production systems
- Working with existing documentation
- Providing input and advice on company’s projects
- Analyzing running systems in search of potential issues
- Solving problems on production systems
- Working with existing documentation
- Engaging in core Information security principles contributing to PCI-DSS compliance and active protection of William Hills Infrastructure
- Making extra effort to help support teams and end users – “goes the extra mile”
- Having flexible attitude, ability to perform under pressure
- Having a commitment to quality and a thorough approach to the work
- Taking Ownership of work and sees this through to completion
- Forging strong relationships with WH Technology, business colleagues and key stakeholders
- Works effectively as part of a highly technical and talented William Hill Delivery team
- Aligning, communicating, and planning infrastructure initiatives in partnership with senior management, peers, and Project Management
- Act as a coach to support less experienced colleagues with the adoption of new technologies and processes
What do we expect?
- Hands on Technical experience in administration of Linux (preferably Red Hat
- Expert knowledge in Linux administration
- Excellent knowledge in technologies used by the company (Ansible, Zabbix, ELK Stack, Nginx, Varnish, Docker, AWS, Scripting)
- Significant experience in working on live production systems
- Being able to cooperate within the team and with remote stakeholders
- Excellent English (both written and spoken)
- Strong knowledge of Networking - DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, routing
- Excellent background in packaging and deployment of applications e.g Java, PHP using Version control systems (GIT) and Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins)
- An excellent working knowledge of configuration management, provisioning and Orchestration tools such as Puppet, CFengine, Chef, Ansible, Salt. Working knowledge and understanding of Puppet is highly desirable
- An excellent working knowledge of load balancing, high availability/clustering technologies
- Some experience with Juniper, Checkpoint and Cisco firewall technology
- Experience in managing and maintaining application delivery platforms such as F5, Stingray/Steel app
- An excellent general working knowledge of IT systems environments i.e. operating systems, networking, applications, platforms and databases
- An understanding of project & service delivery processes, development & testing methodologies and working to Change and Release managements practices
- Maintains a holistic focus when dealing with day to day issues
What do we offer?
We offer competitive salary and opportunity to work with amazing people (without bored managers who prefer 10-years old solutions), Lunch & Learn, internal training sessions and interesting events organized by employees (e.g. internal GP football league, FIFA, board games).
Basically it looks like that:
- Stable employment
- Attractive social benefits (Fully paid private healthcare Enel-Med and Multisport pass, daily fruits)
- Flexible working hours
- Lots of integration events & company parties
- Competitive salary
- Company competitions with cool prizes
- Brand new office in the city center (+1000m2)
- Business trips to our headquarter in London
- Employee referral program (up to 5000 PLN)