Principal DevOps Engineer

Catapult is building the future of sports performance technology with a mission to Unleash the Potential of every athlete and team on earth. We dont just work in the sporting industry; we are actively changing it. Since 2006 our solutions have been leading the way in sports performance software science and data in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing.

We work with over 5000 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.

Catapult is a sports technology company that empowers professional teams to make data-driven decisions. We deliver health performance video and AI insights from the locker room to competitive environments ensuring every decision is an opportunity to gain an advantage sharpen performance and build lasting success.

WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT PLATFORM ENGINEERING

We are looking for a talented and inquisitive Principal DevOps Engineer whose drive for learning and determination for continuous improvement aligns with our ambitious fast-growing and transforming company. Based in our London office you will be a key player in planning designing building and testing the features of our next-generation cloud platform that combines digital video assets wearable data and athlete information to provide insights and analytics to coaching/support staff sports scientists and athletes to assist in optimizing athlete performance. We believe that our customers deserve the best platform and we are on a mission to maximize and enhance their performance through delivering a high-quality experience. Our software and DevOps engineers match this ethos by taking responsibility for constantly improving productivity and development of self and be able to excel in a fast-paced environment with short project timelines from conception to deployment.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Cloud & Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure Automation & IaC: Own infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
• Observability & Reliability: Design build and maintain logging monitoring alerting and SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure system health and performance.
• Software Delivery Pipelines: Design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast safe and repeatable software delivery.
• Infrastructure Operations & Governance: Oversee the availability scalability and performance of cloud and on-prem infrastructure while ensuring all systems remain strictly aligned with corporate security standards and global regulatory compliance.
• Cloud Security
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR as applicable) and implement best practices cloud security controls.
• Security Operation: Lead security first approach collaborate with Security and IT teams to make sure our infrastructure is patched according to SLAs.
• Application Security (AppSec): Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform services.
• Technology leader
• Architectural Roadmap & Vision: Define and execute the long-term technical roadmap for Catapults global cloud platform evaluating emerging technologies (e.g. Serverless AI-driven operations and Containerization) to ensure the infrastructure remains cutting-edge scalable and best to used by our customers.
• Technical Governance & Standards: Be a big contribution to infrastructure decisions establishing Golden Paths and reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns that dictate how engineering teams deploy services while ensuring consistency across all environments.
• Strategic Security & Compliance Integration: Architect and champion a Shift-Left security strategy mandating the integration of automated security guardrails and compliance auditing into the core fabric of the CI/CD pipelines to protect athlete and video data globally.

WHAT YOULL NEED

• Significant experience in DevOps Site Reliability Platform or Infrastructure Engineering with tenure in technical 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 experience with big platform re-design architecture of new cloud infrastructure systems based on software and business requirements.
• 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.
• Experience with regulated industries (e.g. healthcare fintech).
• Familiarity with multiple compliance frameworks (SOC 2 HIPAA PCI-DSS).

WHAT YOUR SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

In 6 months time

By the half-year mark you will have moved beyond the onboarding phase to become the primary authority on Catapults infrastructure.

• Infrastructure Ownership: You will fully own the cloud infrastructure having gained a deep understanding of all interconnected parts that support their athlete and video data services.
• Established Automation: You will have taken control of infrastructure provisioning and configuration management ensuring that Terraform or Ansible are being used effectively for IaC.
• Observability Implementation: You will have designed and begun maintaining essential logging monitoring and SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure high system health and performance.
• Have a full understanding of Catapults products and the way we are working in order to be able to architect any new future existing or new product.

In 12 months time

By the end of your first year you will be driving the next generation of Catapults technology stack and leading cross-functional improvements.

• End to End Platform Ownership: You will take full accountability for the evolution of our production ecosystem architecting a resilient deploy-anywhere infrastructure that scales seamlessly with software demands and business growth.
• Optimized Delivery: You will have refined the CI/CD pipelines to a state where software delivery is consistently fast safe and repeatable across the engineering team.
• Integrated Security and Compliance: You will have transitioned the platform to a security-first architecture successfully embedding automated AppSec controls and vulnerability scanning directly into the CI/CD pipelines.
• Cross-Departmental Influence: Your success will be reflected in your ability to influence stakeholders across engineering security and finance to drive technical and operational improvements.

WHY CATAPULT

• We have amazing people. We promise youll work with some of the most ambitious intelligent people in an exciting industry and do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to engage in constructive open and honest communication to make Catapult extraordinary.
• We work in a collaborative yet challenging environment to consistently improve our performance which in turn impacts our customers performance.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries. Youll have the opportunity to work with people from multiple nationalities and cultures and to build your global awareness.
• 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 improve. 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 only to apply when they check every box. So if 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 who can add to our team culture actively contribute and be 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.