Senior DevOps Engineer

Catapult is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join its platform engineering team, based in the London office. The role focuses on planning, designing, building and testing the features of a next-generation cloud platform that combines digital video assets, wearable data and athlete information to provide insights and analytics to coaching and support staff, sports scientists and athletes. The successful candidate will be a key player in infrastructure decisions and will be expected to constantly improve their own productivity and development while excelling in a fast-paced environment with short project timelines from conception to deployment.

• Own infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Design, build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting and SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure system health and performance.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe and repeatable software delivery.
• Oversee the availability, scalability and performance of cloud and on-premises infrastructure while keeping all systems aligned with corporate security standards and global regulatory compliance.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR, and implement cloud security best-practice controls.
• Lead a security-first approach and collaborate with Security and IT teams to ensure infrastructure is patched according to SLAs.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform services in collaboration with security teams.
• Define and execute the long-term technical roadmap for Catapult's global cloud platform, evaluating emerging technologies such as serverless, AI-driven operations and containerisation.
• Establish Golden Paths and reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns that govern how engineering teams deploy services and ensure consistency across environments.
• Architect and champion a shift-left security strategy by mandating automated security guardrails and compliance auditing within the CI/CD pipelines to protect athlete and video data globally.

• Significant experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering, including tenure in a technical leadership role.
• Deep expertise in the AWS cloud platform and its associated security and compliance practices.
• Strong background in infrastructure automation (IaC), CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling.
• Proven experience with large-scale platform re-design and the 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 centres and on-premises services.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, security and finance.
• Experience working with regulated industries such as healthcare or fintech.
• Familiarity with multiple compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI-DSS.

• Based in the London office.