Network System Engineer

ABOUT BETBY

As a fast-growing, award-winning company, Betby powers the industry with our premium sportsbook, featuring world-class risk management and seamless omni-channel support, reaching millions of players across countless markets.

With offices in Latvia, Malta, Spain, Greece and Montenegro, we offer a vibrant work culture, relocation opportunities, and full support for remote talent across the globe. Join Betby and unlock endless opportunities for growth, success, and making a real impact in the world of iGaming

SHORT DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a experienced Scala Engineer to join our Line management team at BETBY.The team is building and maintaining platform that delivers betting odds to the sportsbook. This is a high-impact role within a cross-functional environment, working closely with multiple teams and services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Routing & Traffic Management: Deploy, maintain and optimize our Linux-based routing stack, ensure fault tolerance and security.
• Virtualization Networking: Manage network configurations on Proxmox hosts, including the automation and maintenance of LACP bonds, Linux bridges, VLAN tagging and etc.
• Hybrid Cloud Connectivity: Design, deploy, and maintain secure connectivity of our on-premise bare-metal clusters with Cloud resources (VPCs) and across multiple data centers.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate the deployment of network configurations (bonding, interfaces, BIRD configs) to ensure consistency across the fleet and reduce manual intervention.
• Security & Microsegmentation: Implement and refine firewall rules/security groups to maintain strict microsegmentation and protect internal assets.
• Performance Monitoring: Proactively monitor interface throughput, latency, and routing stability. Troubleshoot complex L2/L3 issues in a multi-DC environment.
• Collaboration: Act as the primary technical point of contact for Datacenter teams regarding upstream VLAN and switch port configurations. Act as the primary point of contact for network-related inquiries and support requests from internal teams. Evaluate, prioritize, and resolve/troubleshoot technical issues (connectivity, latency, performance and etc.) in a timely and efficient manner. Collaborate with other teams and vendors to address complex issues.
• Documentation and Process Improvement: develop and maintain clear documentation for networking infrastructure, processes, tools, and workflows to empower teammates to resolve issues via self-service and prevent issue recurrence. Create new documentation for internal use that will serve as our process guides, maintain registries of assets in order.
• Ensuring compliance with IT policies and standards, including data protection and information security.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure management, technical support, or a related role;
• Experience with Linux-based operating systems, experience with Debian-based systems would be a plus;
• Experience with shell command line usage and basic scripting, automation tooling (Ansible, Terraform);
• Experience with virtualization technologies like VMware, KVM, VirtualBox and etc.;
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux networking stack, including netlink, namespaces, performance tuning for high-speed interfaces (10G/25G), strong knowledge of LACP (802.3ad), VLAN tagging (802.1Q), bonding, OSPF/BGP, stateful firewalls (iptables/nftables) and VPN protocols, experience with the BIRD routing daemon is highly preferred;
• Hands-on experience with AWS networking (VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups) and Site-to-Site VPN (IPSEC);
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes would be a plus;
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to details;
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

OUR STACK

• OS: Debian;
• Virtualization: KVM, Proxmox;
• Storages: Ceph, S3;
• Networking: IPsec, Open vSwitch, iptables, VRRP, OpenVPN;
• DBMS: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse;
• Message brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ;
• Service orchestration: Kubernetes;
• Monitoring systems: VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana;
• Logging pipeline: Fluent Bit, Kafka, Fluentd, OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards;
• Revision control and CI/CD tools: GitLab;
• Cloud services: Amazon Cloudfront/WAF/S3/EC2/EKS/ELB;
• Web services: Nginx, HAproxy;
• Configuration management: Ansible, Terraform;
• Scripting: Python, bash.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Comprehensive health insurance with coverage for your well-being
• Paid sick leave up to 10 days without medical certificate
• 20 days of pai