Company Description
We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.
Job Description
Sportradar is on a journey! We’ve adopted the Spotify model to empower our people; we value local decision making. Tribes have defined tech stacks and ways of working however with continuous improvement in our DNA we’ve created ‘make it better time’ where you get to shape our future stack and ways of working, as well as work on the problems you care about it or improve your own skills. We are actively adopting test-driven development as it matches our engineering principle ‘if it’s not tested, its broken’. We follow a cloud native strategy; managed services enable us to focus on the problems that interest us most – and we invest in our people with AWS training as we recognize the skills modern developers need to succeed. We’ve a preference for modern lightweight microservices; we leverage the right tools for the job.
We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer who can design, implement and maintain our internal applications and services, used globally throughout Sportradar.
THE CHALLENGE
- Collaborate and propose tehnical architecture and implementation of new products and services
- Lead a team of Platform Engineers responsible product supporting infrastructure and internal services
- Communicate with other tribes inside our company to provide best-in-class solutions and support
- Search, select and/or implement new tools that benefit our company globally
- Keep things running by continuous monitoring, alerting and constant improvements
YOUR PROFILE
- Have a Bachelor Degree or Masters in computer science or any other natural science major or equivalent experience
- Good written and spoken business English
- Willingness to learn new technologies and share technical knowledge
- Want to learn more about cloud providers and their services
MUST HAVE SKILLS
- Background in Linux administration (Ubuntu/Debian preferred)
- Team Management
- Scripting or programming experience (Python, Go, Rust, ...)
- Good communication and organizational skills
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS
- Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure or GCP
- Hands-on experience with cloud provisioning tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure RM, ...
- Knowledge around monitoring tools like Zabbix, Prometheus, ...
- Container orchestration with Kubernetes
- Configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.
OUR OFFER
- Adapted training plan
- Continuous e-learning to maintain and develop the level of competence
- Work with state-of-the-art equipment to solve our technological challenges
- Work in teams with a lot of competence and experience
- A social and inclusive work environment with many social activities
We do not expect you to know all these technologies, but hope you want to learn! It is important what competence you have, but just as important is who you are as a person. At Sportradar, you will work in teams, so you must have good collaboration skills and want to be a team player. You are eager and have no problem taking the initiative if you see that something can be done differently or more efficiently. You are hungry to learn and have a positive attitude. Do you recognize yourself in this? Then we want to get to know you better!
Qualifications
Additional Information
Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences
Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences
