Senior DevOps Engineer

Catapult is building the future of sports performance technology, with a mission to Unleash the Potential of every athlete and team on earth. We don't just work in the sporting industry; we are actively changing it. Since 2006, our solutions have been leading the way in sports performance software, science, and data, in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing.

• Design, operate, and continuously improve our Kubernetes platform across both self-hosted clusters and AWS
• Own our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible, driving a GitOps workflow to ensure all changes are versioned, reviewed, and reproducible
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) and shared templates that empower product teams to build, test, and deploy reliably
• Operate and scale specialised infrastructure for demanding workloads, including GPU clusters for computer vision models, media engines, and data analytics platforms
• Evolve our observability stack to proactively monitor system health, define meaningful alerting, and ensure high availability
• Drive platform security and compliance through continuous vulnerability scanning, automated image screening, robust secrets management, and strict access controls
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, data scientists, and product teams to design scalable architectures and act as a strategic technical partner for new infrastructure initiatives
• Help define technical direction, engineering best practices, and quality standards within the infrastructure domain

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering, with a proven track record of designing and scaling highly available production environments
• Strong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, including upgrades, networking and troubleshooting
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS) combined with experience operating bare-metal or self-hosted environments
• WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Experience operating GPU workloads on Kubernetes or Machine Learning infrastructure
• Familiarity with specialised Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as FluxCD, Rancher, or RKE2.
• Experience working with large-scale video/streaming workflows or AWS media services
• Experience managing and scaling messaging or event-streaming systems (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience operating and optimising relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling for engineering teams WHAT YOUR SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE
• In 6 months time… You know our clusters and pipelines, handle incidents and upgrades on your own, and have shipped your first improvements to reliability, automation or security. You contribute confidently to architecture discussions.
• In 12 months time… You own major parts of the platform, have delivered measurable improvements (faster deployments, better observability, stronger security), and help shape the roadmap of our hybrid cloud. WHY CATAPULT?
• We have amazing people. We promise you'll work with some of the most ambitious, intelligent people in an exciting industry, and do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to engage in constructive, open, and honest communication to make Catapult extraordinary.
• We work in a collaborative yet challenging environment to consistently improve our performance, which in turn impacts our customers' performance.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries. You'll have the opportunity to work with people from multiple nationalities and cultures, and to build your global awareness.