Devops Engineer (UK)

The Athletic Media Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Athletic Media Company in London is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to help build and scale internal tools, improving availability and engineering productivity.

You will work with Terraform, AWS services and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver a world-class sports media platform with high reliability and performance.

You will own code quality through testing, participate in scrum ceremonies, and help triage live incidents to prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of AWS products (Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, CloudFront, S3, IAM).
• Experience with high availability websites.
• Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Contribute to and engage in our scrum process with sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups.
• Understand technical requirements and collaborate with engineers to deliver a world-class product.
• Fix live bugs and triage issues to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
• Validate quality through manual and automated testing; own code through lifecycle to live.

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tools

AWS services

High availability

Fastly / Cloudflare CDN

Job description

About Us

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 450+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.

About the Role

Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity. Engineers in this team are passionate about performance, delivery and metrics. As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services. You’ll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling, alerting and monitoring. We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help we build the best sports media app in the world.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
• Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups.
• Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product.
• Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem.
• Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until it’s live, giving them visibility and ownership over their work.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of AWS products:
  • Lambda
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • ECS
  • Cloudfront
  • S3
  • IAM
• Experience working with high availability websites.
• Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.

Benefits

The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our UK benefits packages offer benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.