Principal DevOps Team Lead

Principal DevOps Team Lead

Our mission is to improve the performance of athletes and teams which we do by engineering the premier technology platform for sport. Weve been at the forefront of sports technology and science since 2006 - we dont just work in the sporting industry we are actively changing its future. Our solutions are designed to help athletes and coaches play smart in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing.

We work with over 4600 teams around the world empowering coaches managers and trainers in premier teams in the NFL NBA NHL MLS EPL AFL NRL NCAA and more. We provide the information they need to optimize athletes health game-day readiness and performance as well as in-game tactics. Our solutions include video analytics and athlete monitoring solutions and we are passionate about helping sports organizations at all levels to better scout recruit teach and win.

About the Role

We are building the next-generation cloud platform that unites digital video wearable data and athlete information to unlock powerful insights for coaches sports scientists and athletes. Our vision is to empower every athlete to reach their full potential by transforming data into meaningful performance breakthroughs. As our DevOps Team Lead you will be at the heart of this mission guiding the systems teams and innovation that make it all possible. Together well shape the future of sports performance.

We are seeking a Principal DevOps Team Lead to own and scale our companys infrastructure across both cloud and on-prem environments. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will set technical direction drive best practices and lead a team responsible for the reliability security cost efficiency and scalability of our platforms. Youll partner with engineering security and finance stakeholders to ensure that infrastructure is not just robust and compliant but also a force multiplier for our product development teams.

What Youll Do

• Leadership & Strategy
• Lead and mentor a cross-functional DevOps/Platform Engineering team.
• Define and drive the long-term infrastructure strategy balancing innovation reliability security compliance and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Engineering Security and Finance leadership to align infrastructure priorities with company goals.
• Champion automation observability and operational excellence across the organisation.

• Cloud & Platform Engineering
• Application Security (AppSec): Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform services.
• FinOps / Cost Management: Establish cost governance practices provide visibility into spend and optimise usage across cloud platforms.
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2 HIPAA HDS GDPR as applicable) and implement best-in-class cloud security controls.
• Software Delivery Pipelines: Design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast safe and repeatable software delivery.
• Infrastructure Automation & IaC: Own infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
• Observability & Reliability: Build and maintain logging monitoring alerting and SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure system health and performance.

• Data Centre & On-Premises
• Security & Compliance: Maintain compliance of on-prem infrastructure in line with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Operations & Maintenance: Ensure the availability scalability and performance of physical and hybrid infrastructure including networking storage and compute.

What Youll Need:

• Required
• 7 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability or Infrastructure Engineering with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Deep expertise in the AWS cloud platform and associated security and compliance practices.
• Strong background in infrastructure automation (IaC) CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling.
• Proven track record implementing and governing cost control / FinOps frameworks in cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of AppSec principles including integrating security into build and deploy pipelines.
• Experience managing hybrid environments including traditional data centers and on-prem services.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across engineering security and finance.

• Nice-to-Have
• Experience with regulated industries (e.g. healthcare fintech).
• Familiarity with multiple compliance frameworks (SOC 2 HIPAA PCI-DSS).
• Strong networking and systems engineering background.
• Hands-on coding or scripting experience (Python Go or similar).

WHY CATAPULT

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the most ambitious and intelligent people in an exciting industry and you will do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to have constructive open and honest communication to make Catapult extraordinary; innovate and create smart solutions; establish a collaborative yet challenging environment to develop our performance and the performance of our customers.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries youll have the opportunity to work across multiple nationalities and cultures and build your global awareness and capability
• We value improvement and development. We are challenging ourselves to continuously grow and become a high-performance company. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and our people are always looking for ways to do things better. There is an unlimited opportunity to grow do more and do better.

Whether youre interested in sports or not youll have the satisfaction of knowing your work is supporting some of the most successful teams and athletes on the planet!

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes but dont meet every single point in our job ad please still get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We are building the future of sports performance. Our priority is to find the brightest talent that can add to our team culture those who actively contribute and who are excited about what they do.

All offers of employment are subject to Catapults positive prehire check. To find out more please contact the Talent Partner for this role