Dev Ops Engineer

Who Are We?

Smarkets is transforming the betting exchange space by delivering world-class technology and the best-priced markets in the industry. With over £29 billion in traded volume since 2010, we’ve built a product-led, transparent, and fair platform that challenges the norms of traditional betting.

As a Series B tech company, we pride ourselves on engineering excellence, lean product thinking, and scientific rigor. With a close-knit team and a passion for innovation, Smarkets is where top talent comes to make a real impact.

Now, we’re looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to help scale our infrastructure and empower our developers with streamlined, self-service tooling and operational excellence.

You’ll join the Dev Ops Infrastructure Team, responsible for real-time distributed systems that power our trading engine-systems that are always-on, ultra-low latency, and demand resilience at scale.

You won’t just be building infrastructure—you’ll be crafting platform capabilities to streamline how engineers build, test, deploy, and run applications across our hybrid estate of self-hosted, co-located hardware and AWS cloud.

This is a role where infrastructure meets engineering productivity: part Dev Ops, part Platform, 100% mission-critical.

• Platform Enablement:
  Design and maintain internal tooling and workflows that improve the developer experience across deployment pipelines, observability and testing environments.

• Empower Developers (Dev Ex):
  Automate workflows, streamline CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab), and ensure fast, safe, and reliable deployments across environments.

• Infrastructure Automation:
  Build, manage, and scale Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.

• Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Collaborate closely with product engineers to provide reliable, low-friction paths for development, testing, and deployment.

• Operational Excellence:
  Monitor, debug, and ensure the stability of our systems with robust alerting and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

• System Reliability:
  Optimize performance and availability for high-throughput, low-latency services that power the betting exchange.

• Collaborative Delivery:
  Participate in on-call rotations, incident reviews, and cross-functional projects with engineering and SRE teams.

• Security & Compliance:
  Contribute to secure system design and operational practices that support industry-standard compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc).

• 2–4 years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or platform engineering roles.

• Strong Linux systems administration background.

• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS (or other public clouds).

• Familiarity with Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, Kafka, and production-scale deployment.

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI) and a passion for improving the build/deploy process.

• A pragmatic mindset that balances ideal solutions with immediate business needs.

• Curiosity and initiative to explore new technologies and bring fresh thinking into the team.

• Exposure to Nix-based Build environments.

• Understanding of self-hosted or hybrid infrastructure models.

• Experience with ArgoCD, Backstage or internal developer portals.

• Knowledge of Rust or C++ environments.

• Interest in performance engineering and low-latency systems.

• Languages:
  
  Python, Bash, Rust, NodeJS

• Data stores:
  Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, Kafka

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Nix, Jenkins, Git Lab CI

• Monitoring & Observability:
  Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Sentry

• Push to win

• Make others better

• Give a shit

• Be a pro

• Bring the energy

Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what’s expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.

We offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard.
We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits…