Sporting Fashion & Goods
Platform & Site Reliability Engineer
Mid Level
Woodbridge, United Kingdomhybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
Adidas NAM Tech is enhancing an enterprise web application and building AI and automation solutions that support essential business processes across the NAM market. The role provides the cloud, platform, DevOps, reliability, security, deployment, observability and operational foundation that enables AI, automation, APIs, MCP services and web enterprise applications to run reliably in production. It involves designing, implementing, securing, automating, operating and optimising AWS infrastructure, deployment platforms, monitoring capabilities and operational processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and CodeDeploy.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, and automate deployments, environment provisioning, releases and operational tasks.
- Manage container platforms including ECS, EKS, Kubernetes and Docker, establish release management standards and deployment governance, and improve deployment reliability, scalability and recovery processes.
- Design and manage AWS environments supporting enterprise applications and AI workloads, including VPCs, networking, routing, security groups, DNS and connectivity patterns.
- Administer IAM roles, policies, secrets, keys and least-privilege access controls, and support EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda and containerised workloads.
- Administer RDS PostgreSQL and related database services, and manage S3 storage, lifecycle policies, backups and archival strategies.
- Configure Route53, load balancers and high-availability services, and drive AWS cost optimisation and usage visibility.
- Own backup, disaster recovery and business continuity readiness.
- Define and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting, dashboards and operational metrics, establish SLIs, SLOs, reliability targets and operational health indicators, and improve system availability, scalability, performance and resilience.
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and post-incident improvements, and implement centralised logging, tracing and telemetry capabilities.
- Within the first six months, work towards standardised deployment pipelines for all delivered solutions, Infrastructure as Code provisioning, production monitoring and alerting for all critical services, improved availability and operational readiness across the solution portfolio
- Proactive visibility and management of AWS costs, and documented and validated disaster recovery and backup procedures.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering.
- 3+ years managing AWS production environments.
- Experience supporting enterprise-grade applications and integrations.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD at scale.
- Experience with production monitoring, observability and reliability engineering.
- AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, Route53, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch).
- Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline.
- Docker and Kubernetes.
- Databricks ecosystem, Kafka and pipeline operations.
- Linux administration and scripting.
- Monitoring and observability platforms such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK or OpenTelemetry.
- Incident management and operational support.
- Security, networking and infrastructure best practices.
Preferred Skills
- AI/ML platform support.
- Azure or multi-cloud knowledge.
- Node.js or Python familiarity.
- MCP-based services and API ecosystems.
- FinOps and cloud cost optimisation.
- Wholesale, retail, ecom, supply chain or B2B platform experience.
Workplace
- Hybrid work policy requiring attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week.
- For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.
Salary
- Actual salary will be based on various factors, such as a candidate's experience, qualifications, skills and competencies, and proficiency for the role.
Benefits & Perks
- Health and dental benefits, including prescription drug coverage, out of country coverage, short and long-term disability, basic life and AD&D insurance, and an Employee & Family Assistance Program.
- Enrolment in adidas' Retirement Savings Plan with employer match.
- Education assistance program and fitness reimbursement program for qualifying employees.
- Eligibility to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.
- Vacation time that increases with length of service.
- Service Awards and Service Time Off during milestone years.
- Paid bereavement leave.
- Parental leave top-up for eligible employees.
About the Company
Adidas is an equal opportunity employer that encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including those with disabilities, and will accommodate applicants' needs on request throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. The company's working language is English.
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