Design and maintain cloud infrastructure using AWS and Kubernetes to support football predictive analytics, driving innovation and collaboration within a motivated development team.
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.
About the 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 106 Kensington High Street, London, W8 4SG. 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
Free Meals & Snacks
Daily subsidised office meals
Health Insurance
Private Medical Insurance (including excess coverage)
Learning Budget
Learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth
Other Benefit
Subsidised gym membership
Wellness Stipend
Health Cash Plan via Bupa
Football Radar specializes in developing advanced statistical models and analytical frameworks tailored for the football industry. We serve football clubs and betting clients, leveraging over a decade of experience to deliver strategic insights that drive performance and profitability.
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