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Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

EDGE10

EDGE10

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Jun 28, 2024

EDGE10 Group believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to reach and sustain their full potential.

We create innovative solutions that connect people with their data in a comprehensive, meaningful, and secure way.

And we do this for some of the best professional sports teams and athletes in the world.

Interested?

EDGE10 Group lives at the heart of athlete data and has created an ecosystem of specialist class leading applications that are designed to give sporting organisations the comprehensive and streamlined solution they need to remain competitive in the increasingly varied and complex world of sports technology. The EDGE10 Ecosystem empowers these organisations with actionable insights, leading to efficient, high-quality decision making.

We work with organisations across the medical and performance spectrums, from elite to grass root teams and from armed forces to multi-national corporations. In sport alone, we work with 1,500+ teams from the leading and most prestigious leagues around such as the MLB, NHL, EPL, and MLS.

We are creating a highly connected and co-operative working environment, where all divisions of the company help and support each other to provide the best solutions for our customers. We are now recruiting for an infrastructure/DevOps Engineer for our UK team to provide vital upgrades to our existing estate and to help us build the next generation of the platform. You will be a hands-on specialist working alongside a team of industry experts and software engineers (analysts, designers, developers). You will be working primarily with teams in London and Belgium, as well as Montreal and Los Angeles. Occasional travel may be required to between the UK and Belgium.

This position requires 5+ years of experience in building, maintaining and troubleshooting IT infrastructure in public Cloud (mostly Azure), and extensive experience working with cross-functional development teams and customer support. A willingness and ability to work with a variety of different characters and personalities is vital.

Successful candidates will need to ensure the stable operation, scalability, ongoing support, and planning of new and existing IT infrastructure. You will also be required to work with, and alongside, other teams to explore solutions to meet the ongoing challenge of providing the best customer experience. You will have experience with scripting languages and be familiar with the concepts of Continuous Integration/Deployment, or open to learning such skills quickly.

What you will do

  • Build and maintain Azure Cloud environments (covering installation, security, reliability, and updates).
  • Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters across multiple Cloud providers (e.g. Azure, Hetzner, etc.) as well as on-premise.
  • Build and maintain database clusters for SQL Server and Postgresql.
  • Create and maintain Infrastructure-as-code scripts optimized for cost effectiveness.
  • Ensuring server performance is optimal, and that appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place.
  • Planning for growth and continuous improvement of existing environments to meet capacity and stability needs.
  • Maintaining, documenting and executing an infrastructure roadmap as technology evolves.
  • Partner with Development in implementing a CI/CD process for multiple environments.
  • Understand the need to work some evenings and weekends to reflect the nature of our industry and geo-dispersed team.