Wanted: 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 don't 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 5,000 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 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.

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 You’ll Do

• Cloud 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…

• 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 Catapult’s 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…

• 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 you’ll 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. You'll 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 you’re interested in sports or not, you’ll 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 don't 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 Catapult's positive pre‑hire check. To find out more, please contact the Talent Partner for this role.