At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and optimise internal tools to enhance product availability and engineering productivity.
- Company: Join The Athletic, a leading sports media company with a vibrant newsroom culture.
- Benefits: Competitive UK benefits, unique perks, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Diverse workplace encouraging applicants from all backgrounds.
- Why this job: Be part of a passionate team creating the best sports media app in the world.
- Qualifications: 2+ years in engineering, knowledge of Terraform, AWS, and CI/CD tools.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 450+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity. Engineers in this team are passionate about performance, delivery and metrics. As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services. You’ll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling, alerting and monitoring. We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help build the best sports media app in the world.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
- Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups.
- Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product.
- Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified.
- Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of AWS products: Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Cloudfront, S3, IAM.
- Experience working with high availability websites.
- Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.
Benefits
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our UK benefits packages offer benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
Devops Engineer (UK) employer: The Athletic Media Company
The Athletic is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters creativity and collaboration among passionate sports enthusiasts. With a strong commitment to employee growth, competitive benefits tailored to the UK market, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion, The Athletic provides a rewarding opportunity for those looking to make a meaningful impact in sports journalism while enjoying the flexibility of remote work combined with office engagement in London.
Contact Details:
The Athletic Media Company Recruitment Team
