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We are evoke, one of the world's leading betting and gaming companies with internationally renowned brands, including William Hill, 888, and Mr Green. Working with us, you will be at the heart of the technological revolution of one of the world's most trusted betting and gaming companies. We deal with projects ranging from mobile Casinos to online Sportsbooks and everything in between.

The platform you support will process 500 online bets per second, accommodate 20 million users, and process 160 terabytes a day. You can be sure there are many challenges waiting for you. 

The Leeds-based, highly skilled SRE team are primarily managing the Kubernetes clusters within the organisation for multiple departments, and through a DevOps culture enabling those departments with observability and pipelines for their business applications. Their job is to guarantee system reliability, performance, and supportability with a strong engineering emphasis on building autonomous solutions that deliver value to end-users early, often, and fast.

We are also open to candidates that come from a Software Engineering background – As long as you show the willingness to learn, we are more than happy to invest the time and effort in getting you where you need to be. Please note the interviews for this role will be face-to-face in our central Leeds office.

What you will be doing:

• Ensuring Reliability - Best in class Observability and Security, applying the Four Golden Signals, with appropriate Testing and Disaster Recovery Plans 
• Improving Productivity - Automate rapid delivery through software delivery pipelines using Infrastructure as Code 
• Maintaining and  Developing Infrastructure - Curate the Container Orchestration, Monitoring, Messaging and Data Storage Platforms, developing any necessary integration 
• Supporting Incidents – Assist Incident Management in Production all the way through impact assessment, service restoration and post-mortems, including being part of the SRE on call rotation 
• Sharing Knowledge - Enabling development teams within the DevOps Culture, promoting best practice, documenting runbooks, presenting talks, working with production engineering teams 

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:  

• A base in Leeds with working experience of an incident response model and fluency with observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana) 
• Experience defining alerts and implementing dashboards from existing monitoring and logging data 
• Relentless focus on customer experience with good understanding of security best practice
• Fluency in cloud infrastructure (AWS) – using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Git), building automated pipelines (Gitlab CI, Lambda) with experience with a container orchestration platform (Kubernetes, Helm).

What we offer:

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

• Financial: Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• 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!
• Holiday entitlement: You’ll be entitled to 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday. 
• Perks and discounts: Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
• Family Support: Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
• Health & wellbeing: Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education. You will also have access to gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
• Travel Card: Enjoy access to our Metro Card loan for convenient and money saving commuting. 
• Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well-being, offering comprehensive healthcare benefits (or a cash alternative). 
• Pension package and life assurance: Safeguarding your financial future and offering peace of mind.

More about evoke:

We’re a business that embraces change and progress. The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke.

At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on 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.

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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.

Sound good? Then you belong at our place! The first step in the recruitment process is kickstarting your application, followed by an initial screening call and an interview stage.

Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family!