Systems Engineer

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Systems Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to help us deliver high quality software and shape our technical roadmap over the coming years.

The Development department consists of 20 developers across 4 sub-teams: Analysis, Modelling, Systems and Trading. As part of the Systems team, you'll get the opportunity to enhance our DevOps culture, taking our collaboration and automation to the next level. We’re on a mission to improve stability and standardisation, and shorten feedback loops in order to make our team more efficient in delivering business value. We’re also looking for someone to help us improve security considerations into our development process.

Our production systems are deployed to cloud based infrastructure in AWS using Docker and Kubernetes and our backend systems are predominantly written in Scala and PHP, connecting to MariaDB, Postgres and Redis databases. We use Jenkins for continuous integration and Terraform Cloud for configuration management.

Responsibilities: 

• Implementing best practices for automation, monitoring, logging, data management and deployment
• Support and monitor our production systems to achieve our uptime and reliability goals
• Enabling the Development team to experiment quickly and deliver high quality software
• Willingness to help with PC + Mac hardware issues 

Requirements:

• At least 5 years experience as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer or Systems Administrator
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix administration and networking
• High level of experience working with at least one cloud provider, ideally AWS, and dedicated server environments
• Knowledge of at least one programming / scripting language other than Bash, ideally Python
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and of container orchestration, ideally Docker
• In-depth knowledge of DNS and Service Discovery
• Ability to commute to London when necessary 

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Prometheus and Alertmanager monitoring stack
• Understanding of databases and data warehousing
• History of integrating Security into development cycle
• Experience implementing and working with centralised logging systems, ideally ELK

The Company

Our aim is to be the no.1 experts on football, providing industry leading analysis. With a team of more than 100 football experts evaluating every second of games across the world and a brilliant Development team analysing this data with unprecedented insight, we are confident we have created a system that has raised the industry standard.

As we've expanded we have found it important to uphold the principles that drove us in the first place and for most of us football is still a passion as well as a job. We see ourselves as an interesting mix of start-up and established business with the flexibility of the former and the security of the latter. 

We believe we have a great product, strong ideas and an incredibly talented group of Developers. We support our teams, and cultivate knowledge-sharing and autonomy where possible. Throughout our teams and management, we take great care to champion transparency, flexibility and an inclusive working environment.

What you’ll get from us 

Continual knowledge-sharing, learning and support within teams is critical to how we work. Our Developers have a passion to develop their knowledge and skills and Football Radar supports this enthusiastically. We do not have an environment where your tools and processes are dictated: exactly how functionality is delivered is the responsibility of the Development team.

We have a flat organisational structure to give our teams’ exposure to all stakeholders within the business and we always aim to keep employees knowledgeable about our aims and future direction.

Whilst we never specifically ask for an interest in football, if the game is a large part of your life, Football Radar can be an extra special place to work. If working with the world’s leading experts appeals to you, it's likely you'll find what you're looking for with us.

We are committed to looking after our employees. Our health and wellbeing initiatives show our promise to encourage a social environment that's for everyone.

What we offer

• Competitive salary that is reviewed regularly, with an annual bonus option
• 33 days holiday (includes bank holidays)
• Competitive contribution match pension
• Flexible hours and remote working options
• Choice of your own development kit
• Paid learning and development opportunities
• Fully subsidised private medical insurance + health checks
• Ongoing intellectual challenges