Senior Platform Engineer

Location: London

Team: Engineering

Type: Full-time

OneFootball is the world’s #1 digital football platform, reaching more than 200 million football fans across the world. Founded in 2008, we have come a long way to provide our users with the best personalised digital football experience. We are a team of around 250 football fanatics working from hubs in Berlin, London, and Lisbon. Our purpose is to disrupt the status quo and make football accessible and enjoyable. 

You will be joining the Platform tribe within the OneFootball Product and Engineering domain. Our team is the critical force ensuring that all our services are not just running but thriving across our cloud platforms with unmatched efficiency, reliability, and security. As a media platform, our vision is to connect Football Fans with the best football-related content and media.

This is a senior-level engineering opportunity aimed at those with a robust technical background and a self-driven approach to excellence. Experience counts, but what truly matters is your capability to deliver and lead both yourself and your peers toward outstanding results. For this senior role, we require a minimum of 5+ years of experience in the same or equivalent position.

Your Role:

• Lead the design and implementation of the core infrastructure that powers OneFootball's applications and services.
• Innovate with cutting-edge automation tools to streamline processes and enhance system efficiencies.
• Craft and refine our cloud infrastructure, focusing on scalability, cost-effectiveness, and bulletproof security.
• Forge strong alliances with software engineers to architect services that are not just scalable and resilient but also performance-optimised.
• Establish and maintain proactive monitoring and alerting systems, ensuring rapid response to any incidents.
• Commit to a culture of continuous learning, staying abreast of the latest technological advancements and industry best practices in platform engineering.
• Embrace full ownership of the systems you build and deploy, responsible for their ongoing maintenance, enhancements, and evolution.

As part of our team, your role will not only involve building and deploying systems but also taking complete ownership of them. This means being responsible for the maintenance, improvement, and evolution of our platforms to ensure they meet our high standards of efficiency and security. You’ll champion the reliability and uptime of our systems, considering the full implications of your work on the user experience and the operational excellence of the Product and Engineering team.

Your Profile:

• A seasoned professional with at least 5-8 years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, ready to tackle and take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges.
• Highly skilled in scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi), demonstrating a profound sense of responsibility for the systems you develop and sustain.
• Deeply proficient in at least one public cloud service (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), committed to exploiting these platforms for peak performance and dependability.
• Expert in containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) with a passion for managing the full lifecycle of services, from conception to production.
• Well-versed in the principles of continuous delivery, equipped with the know-how to implement and optimise relevant tools and processes.
• Profound understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems, committed to ensuring the long-term integrity and security of the platform.
• Experienced with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Lightstep), acknowledging that true ownership encompasses vigilant system monitoring and swift issue resolution.

Nice to Have :

• Proficiency in Golang
• Experience with Incident management processes (rotation, incident escalation, etc) and tooling around it. 
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and related observability tooling is advantageous.

In the UK, we provide a flexible work environment, giving you the option to work remotely while encouraging occasional office visits for collaboration and connection.

• 🌴 Vacation days: 25 days (plus UK public holidays)
• 🎉 Anniversary Days: 1 extra day each calendar year (up to 5)
• 🎂 Birthday Day off: even if your birthday falls on a non-working day, you can enjoy the extra day off
• 🌟 Personal days: 5 "OneFootball days" to use when life happens, no questions asked!
• 📚 Learning & Development Budget: set on a department level - to invest in meaningful development opportunities, with a dedicated per-employee budget (after probation) and the flexibility to pool resources for impactful, shared learnings that support continuous career growth.
• 🧠 Mental Health Support via OpenUp - because your well-being matters
• 💰 Additional Pension Contribution for a secure future
• 🏩 Private Healthcare - because your health comes first
• 💻 Company-Issued MacBook to power your success!
• 👶Enhanced Leave: Paternity Leave - 3 weeks fully paid for fathers & Maternity Leave - 6 weeks of fully paid leave for mothers
• 👋 Very cool office in Central London (Holborn) to come say hi and connect
• 🌍 Remote Work Abroad: We offer flexibility for our employees to work remotely. Being based in the UK, there may be additional considerations due to being outside the EU, but we’ll do our best to accommodate where possible.

No matter where you are, OneFootball is committed to providing a workplace that values flexibility, balance, and personal growth. Join us today! 🏆

At OneFootball, we value the insights and ideas that stem from having a diverse team. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to be a part of the beautiful game irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, background, sexual orientation, religion, team followed, or other personal traits. Whether you're a dedicated 24/7 football fan or not, we actively seek to recruit and support a diverse team to ensure our platform, football, and the wider world are viewed through an inclusive lens.