Вакансія Configuration / Performance Engineer

Playtech is the world's largest online gaming software supplier traded on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, offering cutting-edge, value-added solutions to the industry's leading operators. Company's business portfolio consists of the most prominent names in the business, including William Hill, Netplay, Betfred, Mansion, Bet365, etc.

Playtech develops unified software platforms and content for the online and land-based gaming industry, together with providing a range of ancillary services such as marketing, hosting and CRM services.

Behind the eminent success of Playtech's products and services there are around 5,000 people with offices and development centers in 14 countries, the majority of whom are engaged in research and development of current and future gaming technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Setup configuration management process and tools
• Create smooth continuous integration process for development components
• Support virtual servers based on ESXi, AWS, configure APM solution, monitoring servers and MySQL databases
• Analyze, plan and manage capacity of performance environment
• Analyze product's performance bottleneck, investigate complex configuration and performance issues
• Debug, troubleshoot, and work with team members to find and fix issues
• Analyze performance test data, defects and test results. Deduct the chain of events leading to a failure
• Design, develop and execute automated data driven performance test scripts. Create reports that describe detected defects and possible causes

Requirements:

• 2+ years Linux/Unix [Ubuntu, Centos/RHEL] administration and configuration
• Experience in one of scripting languages and cli tools (Python, bash, awk, sed)
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools: Puppet, ansible
• Understanding of continuous integration process and tools: Jenkins, Bamboo
• Understanding monitoring principles and experience with monitoring systems: zabbix, graphite, Nagios, NewRelic
• An understanding of protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, WebSokets, XHR, Protobuf and DNS
• Basic knowledge in databases: MySQL, oracle
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related area
• Experience with virtualization technologies: vmware, AWS
• Experience with web and application services: Apache, Tomcat, nginx
• Knowledge of version control systems and frontend application servers: git, mercurial
• Experience with performance testing approach
• Demonstrate innovative ability by trying alternate solutions to resolve issues
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-motivated and willing to "do what it takes" to get the job done.
• Service oriented mentality and keen attention to details.
• Proven verbal and written communications skills in English

Conditions:

• Professional growth
• Educational possibilities
• Competitive compensation
• Fully-equipped perfect office space located in the city center ("Palats Sportu" metro station)
• Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
• Possibility to cooperate with a product company

We are seeking for a talented and motivated individual to contribute to the configuration management and performance testing in System Test group as Performance Engineer (DevOps).

The ideal candidate is a thinker who is passionate about the most advanced technologies and methods in configuration management, virtualization and performance testing.

As a part of Performance Testing Team you will be responsible for managing, debugging, configuration, and troubleshooting complex applications and infrastructure performance issues.

This process includes but not limited to researching for a suitable solution, troubleshooting issues, interacting and collaborating with plenty of technical resources such as developers, DBAs and architects across entire company.

If you are creative, "out of box thinker" and ambitious enough to make a difference in such a large scale International business, you are more than welcome to apply for one of our open positions at Playtech Kyiv. We'll contact you if there's a fit with one of our opportunities.