Platform Engineer: Real-Time Infra for Sports Tech

FairPlay Sports Media Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

FairPlay Sports Media Ltd. is building a tech-led platform to support real-time sports data and media delivery. We seek a Platform Engineer to design and run scalable cloud infrastructure, champion security by design, and empower product squads with robust environments and tooling.

You will own incident response, automations, and production-readiness for high-availability systems, collaborating with Senior engineers to deliver reliable, compliant platforms for peak sporting events.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficient with GitOps pipelines (Argo CD/Flux) and CI/CD (GitLab CI).
• Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash; ability to build reusable tooling.
• On-call experience and incident response discipline.
• Security-minded with cloud-native best practices and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate GCP infrastructure (Compute, GKE, Cloud SQL, etc.).
• Deploy and run services on GKE, including autoscaling and Helm configuration.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and environment promotion with security checks.
• Improve developer experience with self-service tooling and runbooks.
• Participate in on-call rotation and manage incidents per incident process.
• Support production readiness for peak events and high-traffic workloads.
• Contribute to security reviews and policy-as-code in pipelines.

Skills

Cloud engineering

On-call

Security

Cost awareness

Leadership

Education

CKA

GCP DevOps Cert

GCP Architect Cert

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Argo CD/Flux

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

FairPlay Sports Media Ltd. is building a tech-led platform to support real-time sports data and media delivery. We seek a Platform Engineer to design and run scalable cloud infrastructure, champion security by design, and empower product squads with robust environments and tooling.

You will own incident response, automations, and production-readiness for high-availability systems, collaborating with Senior engineers to deliver reliable, compliant platforms for peak sporting events.