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.

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

Degree in a related major (Engineering / CS)
Proven system administration experience in heterogenous environments (Windows / Linux with RPM package management predominantly)
Basic scripting skills (bash, powershell, python or other)
Detailed knowledge of TCP/IP and related network protocols such as IP multicast, public IPv6
Knowledge of system security (e.g. intrusion detection systems) and data backup/recovery
Solid understanding of redundancy mechanisms such as NIC teaming, link aggregation, shared storage clustering, TCP load-balancing, SSL offloading, majority node-set clustering, failure fencing
Solid understanding of process scheduling, virtual memory models, swap and troubleshooting performance in the operating system
Solid understanding of distributed/shared block storage, file storage, IO performance
Solid understanding of virtualisation using VMware, KVM and other technologies.
Solid understanding of Linux containers and their theory of operation.
Solid understanding of Microsoft Active Directory in a production environment
Good appreciation of information security concepts such as segregation, threat surfaces, and the importance of vulnerability management
Basic appreciation of the organization of parallel development streams and the use of code repository and versioning systems (based on Git), build systems
Excellent organizational skills and familiarity with project planning approaches/tools
Strong documentation skills

Nice to have, but its not critical,if you have no experience with these technologies, we will be happy to teach you:

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix, Grafana, Prometeus)
Experience with log aggregation systems (Elastic / Graylog)
Experience with DB administration is a plus (MSSQL and NoSQL MongoDB)
Experience using deployment pipelines for infrastructure changes and management
Knowledge of .NET (.NET Core)

Benefits

Stable and flexible working environment
Work-Life Balance
Career Growth Opportunity
Training and professional development events
Health insurance
Competitive Remuneration and Benefits
Teamwork and Accountability
Sense of Community and Defined Company Culture
International Work Environment
Diverse Workplace
Modern comfortable office in the centre of St Julians
Corporate parking near our office
Gym reimbursement

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