Infrastructure Engineer, Systems
Bet365 is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help power the technology behind its sports betting platform, ensuring systems remain robust, scalable, and ready for anything. The Infrastructure Systems team manages the lifecycle of compute and storage platforms underpinning highly demanding products and services.
This global environment is varied and complex, incorporating bare metal, virtualised, and containerised Windows and Linux workloads across private and public cloud. Improving day-to-day operational efficiency and predictability is key. This role involves working on cross-functional infrastructure solutions, business continuity management, problem investigations, incident resolution and system builds, all while striving for continuous improvement. The role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid work from home policy.
- Collaborate with technology specialists to fix issues and deliver platform enhancements.
- Identify areas for continuous improvement and opportunities for automation.
- Support, maintain, build and manage platforms, systems and storage.
- Define and enhance system monitoring using modern tooling and practices.
- Mentor and coach other engineers to transfer knowledge and skill across the team.
- Participate in an on-call support rota for technical escalation.
- Provide office weekend support on a rota basis.
- Linux expertise including Ubuntu or Red Hat derivatives (required)
- Windows Server administration, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP and Failover Clustering (required)
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) experience, including vCenter, vSphere and operations/monitoring tooling such as Aria Operations (required)
- Hands-on experience in file, object and block storage, with knowledge of vendors such as NetApp, Hitachi and Pure (required)
- Drive to implement automation through AI, scripting and coding using languages such as PowerShell, Ansible and Python (required)
- Interest in using AI-powered tools to support technical investigation, documentation and agent-based workflows (required)
- Fundamental understanding of networking, load balancing, enterprise FC storage, tiering and virtualisation (required)
bet365 is one of the world's leading online gambling companies, founded in 2000 by Denise Coates CBE. The company employs over 9,000 people and serves more than 100 million customers in 27 languages, with a market-leading position built on its In-Play betting product. It offers betting across 96 sports and hundreds of thousands of streaming events, handling millions of requests and bets at peak times. Headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, England, bet365 is known for its software innovation and continues to develop its online betting and gaming platform.