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.

Sportradar is a global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content for its clients around the world. We provide cutting-edge solutions and services to media companies, bookmakers, sports federations and state authorities. We occupy a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries. This creates an exciting and fast-moving working environment that rewards creative thinking and hard work. We are passionate about what we do, and we care passionately about our people.If you think you’re up to the challenge, come and help us to grow, innovate and develop!Shoot your shot in Sports and data! Don´t be a Spectator!

THE ROLE:

We’re looking for an addition to a group of highly experienced engineers in a DevOps solutions and technology team. Working closely with engineering teams to foster a strong culture of collaboration, system development lifecycles and infrastructure as code practices. Develop and support high quality digital solutions, with a focus on building operational awareness, supporting configuration management and ensuring quality. Become integral to a team of software developers, test analysts and product owners as part of the DevOps Practice.Sportradar is a truly digital organisation with a very broad array of B2B applications and services. As we embark on a very exciting technical transformation with a focus on cloud migration and microservice architectures, it is a great time to join our team!

THE CHALLENGE:

To succeed in this role, you have a diverse background with software development in a language of your choice. You should have a passion for DevOps, experience of tooling centric to software crafting/hosting and a senior level understanding of software quality, reliability, release and scaling principles. You will have extensive experience setting up continuous integration/delivery in agile teams. In addition, you will have operational experience with system administration or site reliability engineering which allows you to craft and maintain resilient systems. You will also have a natural desire to automate all things, coach and guide your peer development community and a passion for reproducible results.

There are several key challenge areas:

• DevOps evangelism and mentorship
• Design, build and improve the software delivery lifecycle for a broad array of products and services.
• Automate the creation and management of our software platforms.
• Craft reusable frameworks that simplify platform, delivery and observability.
• Enable teams to work efficiently and effectively through technology and ways of working solutions.
• Help drive excellence in development, quality assurance and operational teams.

YOUR PROFILE:

• Proven leadership and team-building skills, with a commitment to fostering a culture of continuous learning and personal development within the team.
• Advanced expertise in Kubernetes, including architecture design, complex troubleshooting, and performance optimisation.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale, resilient Kubernetes-based applications.
• Extensive public Cloud experience preferably with AWS.
• Expert-level knowledge of GNU/Linux OS with significant experience in managing production-grade services and high-availability systems.
• Application development, technical architecture or application support experience in an agile/continuous delivery environment.
• Excellent experience creating Operational Awareness through monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Mastery in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management, with a proven ability to design and implement scalable and automated infrastructure solutions. (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cloudformation)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced scripting skills with proficiency in automating complex tasks and developing custom tooling (Bash, Python / Ruby / Go / other).
• Excellence with version control systems and application lifecycle management (Git / GitLab).
• Exceptional communication skills, with experience in mentoring team members and leading cross-functional collaboration.

OUR OFFER:  

• The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar
• All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
• The opportunity to grow your skills (German and English courses, Sportradar eAcademy, Engineering workshops, Code Retreats, Randori styled Coding Kata)
• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path 
• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US) 
• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun
• Innovative and cross-team challenges, office sports tournaments in Darts, Table Tennis, Tennis and others
• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you
• A hybrid working model and the possibility to work from a home office when needed 

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.

Buckle up, hold on tight and get ready for an incredible adrenaline-rush throughout this exciting ride with us: #maketheteam and shape your future as well as ours!

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