DEVOPS ENGINEER
Do you want to work for the world leader in elite sports performance analytics?
Catapult is a world leader in sports performance technology, serving over 2,900 teams across 40 sports. We improve some of your favourite athletes performances through creating and developing athlete management systems, video analysis tools, and wearable tracking devices. Our technology offers objective solutions to sport based challenges and can be found throughout the AFL, NRL, NBA, Premier League, La Liga and many more.
Born out of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and a scientific research organisation; Catapult has grown significantly since 2006. We are currently listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: CAT) and operate from 9 offices around the world. We actively aim to make a difference in whichever sporting context our products and services operate within, be that meeting rooms, practice facilities or arenas.
We want people who are passionate about developing innovative products
The Cloud and DevOps Engineer role is responsible for supporting and empowering Catapult’s development teams to deliver products to market more readily, more safely and with less manual effort.
Reporting to the Head of Software as part of the Wearables Software Team, the successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of AWS infrastructure, strong networking skills and demonstrated experience designing, implementing and supporting mission-critical solutions.
What You’ll Do
- Working with the development teams to support application builds, continuous integration, deployments, migrations and new features and services
- Identifying and resolving DevOps-related performance bottlenecks, performance tuning and tweaking
- Coordinating and contributing to the continuous improvement of DevOps-related processes
- Implementing and supporting orchestration tools for the automation of key processes across the entire stack
- Providing key stakeholders with visibility of DevOps performance metrics
- Planning out and documenting the work that you’ll be doing
- Staying up to date with relevant technologies, balancing risk with effort and helping the development identify opportunities to use the best of what’s new
What You'll Need:
- A relevant tertiary degree in IT (or equivalent)
- 3+ years industry experience in DevOps roles
- Experience working with mission-critical application infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code for AWS services (e.g. Terraform)
- Experience with Ansible
- Strong understanding of AWS Security best practices
- An understanding of software development practices
- Experience using bash and at least one additional scripting language
- Experience with AWS automation using CLI
- Experience with Terraform Cloud
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with containerisation desirable
- Experience working in an agile/scrum team
Why You’ll Love Working for Catapult:
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We care about you. We offer competitive compensation, time off and outstanding paid maternity and paternity leave. In the US, we offer a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match.
- We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located around the world with state of the art equipment. Be aware, we have very competitive table tennis games in a couple offices so be prepared to play and have fun.
- We work with elite sports teams. Why wait until the weekend to be involved with your favorite sports teams? Every day you can make an impact with our clients who are some of the most elite teams in the world.
Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job ad, please still get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We are building the future of sports performance, our priority is to find the brightest talent that can add to our team culture, those who actively contribute and who are excited about what they do.
All offers of employment are subject to Catapult's positive pre-hire check. To find out more, please contact the Talent Partner for this role.
