Company Description
We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.
Job Description
THE ROLE:
We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a group of highly experienced engineers in a DevOps solutions and technology team. Working closely with engineering teams to foster a strong culture of collaboration, system development lifecycles and infrastructure as code practices. Develop and support high quality digital solutions, with a focus on building operational awareness, supporting configuration management and ensuring quality. Become integral to a team of software developers, test analysts and product owners as part of the DevOps Practice.
Sportradar is a truly digital organisation with a very broad array of B2B applications and services. As we embark on a very exciting technical transformation with a focus on cloud migration and microservice architectures, it is a great time to join our team!
THE CHALLENGE:
To succeed in this role, you have a diverse background with software development in a language of your choice. You should have a passion for DevOps, experience of tooling centric to software crafting/hosting and a senior level understanding of software quality, reliability, release and scaling principles. You will have experience setting up continuous integration/delivery in agile teams. In addition, you will have operational experience with system administration or site reliability engineering which allows you to craft and maintain resilient systems. You will also have a natural desire to automate all things, coach and guide your peer development community and a passion for reproducible results.
There are several key challenge areas:
- DevOps evangelism and mentorship
- Design, build and improve the software delivery lifecycle for a broad array of products and services.
- Automate the creation and management of our software platforms.
- Craft reusable frameworks that simplify platform, delivery and observability.
- Enable teams to work efficiently and effectively through technology and ways of working solutions.
- Help drive excellence in development, quality assurance and operational teams.
YOUR PROFILE:
Required:
- Public Cloud experience with either AWS (advantage), Azure or GCP
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with IaC and Configuration Management tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cloudformation)
- Scripting skills (ability to write Bash script, Python / Ruby / Go / other).
- Excellent communicator at all levels.
- A team player with a strong sense of collaboration and personal development.
Preferred:
- Experience in Kubernetes container orchestration and administration.
- Familiarity with deploying and running applications in Kubernetes.
- Detailed knowledge of GNU/Linux OS (at least 1 year of experience w/ administration of production grade services running on Linux server).
- Application development, technical architecture or application support experience in an agile / continuous delivery environment.
- Excellent experience creating Operational Awareness through monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Excellence with version control systems and application lifecycle management (Git / GitLab)
What you can get if you join our DevOps Team:
- Working within a well-established team of experienced DevOps engineers.
- Work with Kubernetes, microservice architectures, cloud providers and other modern and exciting technologies.
- Collaborate with supporting colleagues from all over the world.
- A challenging but rewarding and fun environment.
OUR OFFER:
- The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
- The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar. All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business.
- Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path.
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).
- A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.
- Innovative and cross-team challenges like ShipIt, office sports tournaments in Darts and Table Tennis and unique beer brewing competitions.
- Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan)
Additional Information
The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.
At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) – we believe skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!