Senior Linux End User Technology Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Senior End User Technology Engineer, you will use strong technical expertise to ensure delivery of innovative solutions and first-class end user support.

You will lead the design, configuration, and management of desktop infrastructure, both on-premise and in the cloud. Playing a critical role in a skilled high-performing team, you will ensure platforms and services remain operational, secure, and compliant, enabling our 365-day-a-year business to function seamlessly.

In this role, you will provide 3rd-line maintenance and support for a global desktop infrastructure, keeping endpoints up-to-date and addressing vulnerabilities, security risks, and identifying future technology opportunities. Actively engaging with end users through face-to-face interactions, demonstrating a commitment to delivering exceptional service, will be essential for your success.

We seek a leader with strong technical expertise, capable of driving project work using structured methodologies, providing regular updates, and mentoring team members. You will oversee escalated technical issues, ensuring prompt service restoration and ongoing team development.

The salary range for this position is between $90,000 to $120,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Deep Linux expertise, extensive experience with enterprise-grade Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.
• Understanding of their package management systems (APT).
• Advanced proficiency in shell scripting :  Bash is essential; Python is highly desirable, for automation, troubleshooting, and system administration.
• Configuration management experience using Puppet required.
• In-depth knowledge of user and group management, file system management (LVM, RAID), process management, service management (systemd, SysVinit, and kernel tuning.
• Hands-on experience with virtualisation technologies like VMware vSphere, KVM, and containerisation platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Linux security best practices, SELinux, user permissions, SSH hardening, and vulnerability management.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Git / Gitlab experience.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and delivering projects at scale, large scale application roll outs, upgrade and removals end to end.
• Excellent communication and attention to detail, capable of conveying technical information to non-technical stakeholder.

Additional Information

bet365 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.