DevOps Engineer, Studios

IMG's Technology team is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure and delivery pipelines across its digital and broadcast platforms. The successful candidate will play a key role in enabling continuous delivery, improving system reliability, and supporting high-profile clients and live event services, ensuring optimal performance and resilience across all environments. IMG powers the growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 200 federations, associations, events, and teams.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure to support production and development environments.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and reliable software delivery across multiple teams.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery strategies are in place and tested regularly.
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline deployment processes, and communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure visibility of issues, risks, and improvements.
• Act as a point of escalation for production incidents, providing rapid troubleshooting and resolution, and support live and critical event operations where uptime and responsiveness are essential.
• Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure, pipelines, and applications.
• Optimise system performance and cost-efficiency across cloud environments.
• Document infrastructure, processes, and operational procedures clearly, and continuously identify opportunities for automation and operational improvements.

• Proven experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of operating systems, such as Linux distributions.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps/Bitbucket.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Understanding of networking, security, and system architecture principles.
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
• A technical and/or engineering background with a strong interest in automation and cloud technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in critical situations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage priorities across multiple projects and environments.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

• Experience working in high-availability or live production environments is highly desirable.

• This role is based at the facility in Stockley Park, Uxbridge, with hybrid working options where applicable.
• May require unsociable hours, including occasional weekends or on-call rotations, to support live operations and critical systems.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project and client needs.

IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specialising in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and events management. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc., a premium sports and entertainment company that owns UFC, WWE and PBR and, through IMG and On Location, services and partners with major sports rights holders.