Senior Platform Engineer

Football Radar; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent analytics firm in sports is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain its cloud infrastructure. Located in London, the role offers flexibility for remote work one day a week. Candidates should have expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. Benefits include competitive pensions, private medical insurance, and opportunities for skill development.

Benefits

Half yearly bonus opportunities

33 days holiday

Competitive matched pensions

Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan via Bupa

Subsidised gym membership

Daily subsidised office meals

Learning and development budgets

Fortnightly five-a-side football game

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for football analysis.
• Help development teams optimize use of AWS and Kubernetes.

Skills

Understanding of AWS services

Configuring and managing Kubernetes clusters

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring tools experience

Dynamically scaling infrastructure

Excellent communication skills

Time management

Organisational skills

Pragmatic mindset

Responsibility and ownership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

About Football Radar

For over a decade, Football Radar has excelled in developing statistical models and analytical frameworks for football. Our expertise extends to providing advisory services to football clubs and offering leading-edge betting advice that has consistently delivered outstanding returns for our clients. We define ourselves as a unique blend of start-up dynamism and established business security, combining the flexibility of the former with the stability of the latter.

Role

At Football Radar, we analyse and predict football matches. In the role of a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for helping design and maintain the cloud infrastructure that makes that possible.

This role is based at our London office, at 1 Craven Hill, London, W2 3EN. You will have flexibility to work from home one day a week. Please note we are not considering remote candidates at the moment.

Role Requirements

We are running almost everything in AWS, and using Kubernetes for orchestrating most of our services. A big part of the job will be finding the best way to use AWS services and Kubernetes to help our development team to deliver the best software possible, so if you are not already an expert in these tools, you should aspire to become one. While we are using AWS ourselves, we will also consider candidates with a lot of cloud experience from a similar platform like Azure or GCP.

We’d love to hear from you if this sounds like you:

• Extensive understanding of AWS services
• Experience configuring and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Practical experience of infrastructure as Code (IaC), such as Terraform or Ansible
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience with dynamically scaling infrastructure
• Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills
• Pragmatic mindset
• Thrives on responsibility and ownership

Benefits

We have a range of benefits available at Football Radar and continue to review these to ensure our colleagues are gaining everything they can from them.

• Half yearly bonus opportunities based on company performance
• 33 days holiday (Including bank holidays)
• Competitive contribution matched pensions
• Health and well-being benefits:
• Private Medical Insurance (including excess coverage)
• Health Cash Plan via Bupa
• Subsidised gym membership
• Daily subsidised office meals
• Learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth. Company and team led engagement activities throughout the year
• Fortnightly five-a side football game amongst colleagues