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• DevOps Engineer

  Who we are

  The Workshop is a tech company that develops incredible software for the online gaming industry. Living by the motto “Fearlessly Forward,” innovation is at the centre of everything we do, whether it’s our games, new products and technologies. We understand that great ideas come from great people, and great people thrive when they’re trusted to challenge, change, improve, and perfect our products and processes. Our strength lies in the diversity of our skills, and that comes from the diversity of our people. The Workshop is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, trust each other, and value collaboration. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, belief (or lack thereof,) and programming language preference. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer a pleasant, supportive place to work – whoever you are. It’s a place where you can try new ideas, take risks, and move Fearlessly Forward.

  What you'll do

  Working for the teams who make and deliver our software, you’ll make sure services are effective across test, development and production environments.

  It’ll be your job to drive improvements, whether they relate to boosting enjoyment of the software or the efficiency of our teams. You’ll be empowered to improve software, using your analytical and diagnostic flair to the full. And, above all, you’ll make certain our agile methodology isn’t hampered by operational requirements, or delays in delivery or software transitions.

  You’ll be part of a super-motivated DevOps team whose mission is to create new and awesome tools that will empower our development teams to do things in an automated and safer way. Whilst standardising processes to ensure all development teams are aligned with each other.

  You will:

  • Plan upgrades of large, complex systems across a variety of environments, working closely with key staff across multiple sites.
  • Manage technical releases including software deploys, de-risking deploys and change request reviews.
  • Investigate and diagnose problems, assign or carry out code and deployment fixes, and keep documents up to date.
  • Make workflow more efficient and the system more stable.
  • Build and verify new servers, including tracking network changes.
  • Build tools for automate, simplify and de-risk processes.
  • Work with bleeding-edge tools and technologies.
  • Administer more than 20 Kubernetes clusters with hundreds of services.

  What you'll bring

  • Familiar with containerisation (Docker, rkt) and virtualisation (VMWare, Vagrant, VirtualBox) technologies.
  • Strong experience working with Kubernetes clusters and observability tools such as Fluentd, Kibana, Logstash, Prometheus and Grafana. Familiar with Service Mesh, ideally using Istio.
  • Knowledge in Public and Private clouds: Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMWare.
  • Experience with HashiCorp stack: Terraform, Consul and Vault. Ability to understand and implement Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
  • A strong and deep level of understanding of Continuous Integration and Deployment concepts and tools, including SCMs (Git, Subversion), CI servers (Bamboo, Jenkins), build tools (Maven, Gradle), binary repositories (Nexus, Artifactory) and code quality tools (SonarQube). Experience with the Atlassian stack is desirable.
  • Strong knowledge around platform automation technologies, such as Puppet and Ansible. Experience with AWX is a plus.
  • Good level of understanding regarding database administration, including but not limited to, Cassandra, Neo4j and ElasticSearch as well as the traditional ones (MySQL, Oracle, etc).
  • Equipped with basic programming know-how – including an understanding of code and coding concepts – plus advanced knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby...). Knowledge in Django framework is a plus.
  • Familiar with software development, including concepts, current technologies and frameworks.
  • A talented Linux administrator who knows about network diagnostics and services.
  • Basic knowledge in Windows systems administration and investigation, with expertise that covers Event log and Services.
  • Flexible enough to meet tight deadlines and driven to deliver to strict SLAs.

  Please note - due to the ever changing DevOps world we are flexible and understand you may not have experience in all of the above technologies. However, Kubernetes and Cloud are essential for this position. 

  What's in it for you

  • Relocation Package for you and your family to move to Malaga;
  • Challenging and fulfilling work at an innovative, global company that uses cutting-edge tech
  • Global work experience in an agile methodology
  • International, friendly and inclusive multi-cultural environment (over 35 nationalities that speak altogether almost 30 languages!)
  • Competitive salary and relocation packages for you and your family
  • Private health insurance and life insurance from day 1
  • Sabbatical Program - Six weeks’ paid leave for every four years of service
  • Flexibility of working from home/office to stay both safe and collaborative
  • Flexible working hours, well-being programs, learning and growth opportunities
  • Team building events, learning labs, Hackathons/Designathons
  • Opportunity to shape the tech community inside and outside of The Workshop, mentoring and sharing knowledge with others.

  Sound good? Then we’d love to hear from you.

• Software Engineer

  Who we are

  The Workshop is a tech company that develops intuitive software for the online gaming industry. Our motto is to move “Fearlessly Forward” together. Cooperative innovation is at the centre of everything we do – from our games, new products and technologies, to how we collaborate and share inspiration with one another.

  What we believe

  We understand that great ideas come from great people, and great people thrive when they’re trusted to challenge, change, improve, and perfect our products and processes. Our forte lies in the diversity of our skills – and that comes from the diversity of our people.

  Our commitment to you

  The Workshop is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, where we all learn together, trust each other, and value collaboration. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, belief (or lack thereof), and programming language preference. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer a friendly, supportive working environment for all. It’s a place where you can try new ideas, take risks, and enjoy the support to move Fearlessly Forward.

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  What you’ll do

  We are always interested in discussing this opportunity and looking for talented developers with solid inquisitive, design, and problem-solving skills, expertise with high-performance applications. We need our engineers to be versatile, display authority and team collaboration qualities, and be enthusiastic to tackle new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

  • You'll join one of our engineering teams and will be using agile methodologies working in a team of engineers and product owners.
  • You'll design and develop software, deploy it in production, and provide operational support.
  • You’ll be responsible for coding from the very beginning until the production environment, collaborating in an international and inclusive environment.
  • Write, maintain and document unit and integration tests, and write up new and modified functionality.
  • You will work closely with other specialists (quality, security, product) to make our software design, delivery, and quality unbeatable.
  • You'll participate in the full-cycle software engineering: analysis > design > code/test > deployment > maintenance/support
  • You will follow best practices at all aspects of software development: Design, Coding, Testing, Operational procedures, Monitoring.
  • You will give and receive feedback via Code Reviews, Retrospectives and help out removing technical blockers affecting someone else 
  • You will actively engage with other teams to manage dependencies and resolve impediments
  • You will promote and facilitate tech innovation. Investigate new tools/technologies/ideas to promote further improvement of the system

  What you’ll bring

  • Positive, growth mindset, knowledge sharing, and creativity while problem-solving with others.
  • Demonstrated back-end skills (multithreading, OOP, etc.) and/or strong front-end skills. You don't need to be proficient in both, but willing to learn and work in a T-shape role.
  • DevOps skills: having knowledge of system admin and interest to learn more. 
  • Good understanding of what quality code means (clean code & testing) and understanding web-based applications (HTTP protocol, Web Servers, Caching, etc.).
  • Good testing practices (unit, component, and E2E testing).
  • Ability to prioritize work, and collaborate with the business (e.g. Product, BI, Design, and Talent Teams)
  • Understanding of the data modeling, architecture, and how other systems work.
  • An agile approach to development, and a good understanding of lean and agile methodologies.
  • CI/CD approach to work and understanding of CI/CD tools.
  • Collaborative, respectful attitude, and good communication skills in English.
  • Curiosity to learn new languages/frameworks, to experiment and try out new technologies.

  What you'll work with

  • Java – latest version.
  • Web development (JS/Angular).
  • Web services (REST).
  • Spring boot, Spring cloud.
  • Build tools (Maven, NPM, Webpack) as well as version control systems (Git).
  • Containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Testing frameworks (JUnit, Jasmine, JBehave and Selenium) and testing practices, contract testing.
  • Apache Cassandra and Elasticsearch.
  • Messaging (RabbitMQ).
  • Concurrent programming and threading.

  What’s in it for you

  • Flexible ways of working

  • Inspiring and fulfilling work at an innovative and values-driven company creating cutting-edge tech
  • Attractive salary and customisable benefits package
  • Flexible working hours
  • Contemporary and accessible office environments with a range of workplace perks
  • Six weeks’ paid leave for every four years of service
  • Relocation package for you and your family including soft-landing package services to help you settle in (applicable in Spain, if you are moving from a different city/country)
  • Being part of a team with a forward-looking, international mindset and agile working practices
  • A friendly, inclusive, and multicultural environment (we are made up of over 35 nationalities, speaking almost 30 languages)
  • Wellbeing programmes, learning, and personal growth opportunities
  • A range of employee events throughout the year, including team building activities, Learning Labs, Hackathons, and Designathons
  • Opportunities to shape the tech community within and outside of the company, through mentoring and knowledge-sharing

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Who we are

  The Workshop is a tech company that develops intuitive software for the online gaming industry. Our motto is to move “Fearlessly Forward” together. Cooperative innovation is at the center of everything we do – from our games, new products and technologies, to how we collaborate and share inspiration with one another.

  What we believe

  We understand that great ideas come from great people, and great people thrive when they’re trusted to challenge, change, improve, and perfect our products and processes. Our forte lies in the diversity of our skills – and that comes from the diversity of our people.

  Our commitment to you

  The Workshop is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, where we all learn together, trust each other, and value collaboration. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, belief (or lack thereof), and programming language preference. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer a friendly, supportive working environment for all. It’s a place where you can try new ideas, take risks, and enjoy the support to move Fearlessly Forward.

  Your mission

  Site Reliability Engineering is the outcome of combining IT operations responsibilities with software development. With SRE there is an inherent expectation of responsibility for meeting the service-level objectives (SLOs) set for the service they manage and the service-level agreements (SLAs) we agree with our clients.

  Working with the teams who make and deliver our software, you’ll make sure the platforms and services customers rely on, are available when customers want to use them. SRE goal is to build highly-scalable and reliable systems.

  What you’ll do

  • Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.

  • Help build reliable systems and define standards and best practices.
  • Improve the observability of our systems to make them react on symptoms and not outages.
  • Understand the full software stack and contribute to improve the performance and reliability of applications.
  • Automate repetitive manual processes when appropriate.
  • Optimise the software and incident lifecycles to booster the reliability of our systems.

  What you’ll bring

  • A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it.
  • Passion about learning new languages and frameworks.
  • Good stakeholder management skills. Ability to translate technical into business language.
  • Understanding of Web-based applications (HTTP protocol, Web Servers, Caching, etc.).
  • Strong experience working with Kubernetes, Helm and K8S Operators.
  • Expert on Observability tools including but not limited to Prometheus, Nagios, Fluentd, ECK or Google Stacktrace.
  • Demonstrated experience as a full-cycle software engineer: analysis > design > code/test > deployment > maintenance/support.
  • A strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Deployment concepts and tools, including SCMs (Git, Subversion), CI servers (Bamboo, Jenkins), build tools (Maven, Gradle), binary repositories (Nexus, Artifactory), GitOps and code quality tools (SonarQube).
  • Knowledge on platform automation technologies, such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform or Pulumi, is a plus.

  What's in it for you

  • Inspiring and fulfilling work at an innovative and values-driven company creating cutting-edge tech
  • Attractive salary and customisable benefits package
  • Flexible working hours and ways of working
  • Contemporary and accessible office environments with a range of workplace perks
  • Six weeks’ paid leave for every four years of service
  • Relocation package for you and your family including soft-landing package services to help you settle in (applicable in Spain, if you are moving from a different city/country)
  • Being part of a team with a forward-looking, international mindset and agile working practices
  • A friendly, inclusive and multicultural environment (we are made up of over 35 nationalities, speaking almost 30 languages)
  • Wellbeing programmes, learning and personal growth opportunities
  • A range of employee events throughout the year, including team building activities, Learning Labs, Hackathons and Designathons
  • Opportunities to shape the tech community within and outside of the company, through mentoring and knowledge-sharing

• Data Software Engineer

  The role

  The Workshop is currently looking for a Big Data Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in Malaga. The ideal candidate will have good knowledge of fast-moving and large volume data in multi-tiered data and analytics platforms.

  The role involves the design, development, implementation, and support of a cutting-edge real-time data platform, which includes including data streaming, a data lake, and a blazing fast analytics database. We are looking for someone who is passionate, motivated, driven, and up for the challenge.

  What you’ll do

  • Design, develop and support the real-time data platform and pipelines

  • Conceptualize, evaluate and build a proof of concepts on new models, tools, and techniques.

  • Collaborate, peer review, cross skill, and share expertise with other team members.

  • Performance tuning of the system and work on new ways to increase efficiency.

  What you'll bring

  • Experience working with high velocity and high volume data, including good experience in handling relational, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

  • Relevant knowledge of database design and development with previous experience in developing ETL processes, and multidimensional data models.

  • High understanding of both relational and multidimensional modeling principles.

  • Solid knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming languages and must have a strong experience in Java, with Scala knowledge as nice to have.

  • Good experience with SQL queries and database tuning.

  • Problem-solving skills, willingness to take ownership and risks, and enthusiasm in the face of technical knowledge.

  • Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment.

  • Experience on data quality standards and contribution on defining and monitoring data quality metrics and KPIs is a plus.

  • Good communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

  Desirable experience

  • Expertise with Kafka, Kafka Connect and knowledge of RabbitMQ.

  • Relevant experience with data process technologies like Apache (Spark/Flink/Beam), Oracle ODI, and Confluent’s Platform.

  • Knowledge of Hadoop Cluster Architecture and hands-on experience within Cloudera Hadoop ecosystems.

  • Experience with Kubernetes

  • Knowledge of Exasol is a plus

  • Knowledge of any one of the scripting languages, such as Python, Shell Scripting, or PERL is welcome

  We care about your career progression, health and wellbeing, so we offer:

  • Hybrid ways of working.

  • We will be happy to see you in the office and offer a relocation package for you and your family, including soft-landing package services to help you settle in (applicable if you are moving from a different city/country to Malaga, Spain)

  • A friendly, inclusive and multicultural environment. We are made up of over 35 nationalities and speak almost 30 languages.

  • An attractive salary and customisable benefits package. Wellbeing programmes, a self-managed learning budget and personal growth opportunities.

  • A range of events throughout the year, including team building activities, Learning Labs, Hackathons and Designathons. Plenty of opportunities to shape the tech community within and outside of the company through mentoring and knowledge sharing. Private health insurance and life insurance from day one.

  • The opportunity to take up to three paid volunteering days each year.

  • Gym membership discount.

  • A period of up to four (4) weeks per calendar year, during which you may work remotely from a location other than your local office or home.

  • A sabbatical program, which offers the opportunity to take one period of six weeks (30 working days) paid leave every for 4 years of service at The Workshop.

  • 23 days of annual leave plus 14 Bank Holidays.

  When you plan to work from the office, you can expect:

  • A contemporary and accessible environment with a range of workplace perks, including a parking spot.
  • Free breakfasts, snacks and drinks.
  • Thirsty Thursday – afterwork!