Staff DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
Ljubljana
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.
THE ROLE:
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join 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.
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 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.
ABOUT YOU:
Required:
- Public Cloud experience with either AWS (advantage), Azure or GCP
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with IaC and Configuration Management tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cloudformation)
- Scripting skills (ability to write Bash script, Python / Ruby / Go / other).
- Excellent communicator at all levels.
- A team player with a strong sense of collaboration and personal development.
Preferred:
- Experience in Kubernetes container orchestration and administration.
- Familiarity with deploying and running applications in Kubernetes.
- Detailed knowledge of GNU/Linux OS (at least 1 year of experience w/ administration of production grade services running on Linux server).
- Application development, technical architecture or application support experience in an agile / continuous delivery environment.
- Excellent experience creating Operational Awareness through monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Excellence with version control systems and application lifecycle management (Git / GitLab).
What you can get if you join our DevOps Team:
- Working within a well-established team of experienced DevOps engineers.
- Work with Kubernetes, microservice architectures, cloud providers and other modern and exciting technologies.
- Collaborate with supporting colleagues from all over the world.
- A challenging but rewarding and fun environment.
OUR OFFER
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US) including various social events and teambuilding.
- Flexibility to manage your workday and tasks with autonomy.
- A balance of structure and autonomy to tackle your daily tasks.
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme.
- Calm and Reulay app (leading well-being apps designed to support focus, quality rest, mindfulness, and long-term mental resilience).
- Online training videos.
- Flexible working hours.
While we appreciate the flexibility and benefits of working from home, we strongly believe that coming together in person fosters stronger connections, encourages collaboration, and drives innovation--both as individuals and as a company. The energy, shared ideas, and team support we experience in the office strengthen the foundation of our success and culture. For this reason, we are an office-first business operating on a hybrid model, with team members working in the office three days a week to build relationships, exchange ideas, and grow together.
OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- Initial Screening: A quick chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations.
- Technical Assessment: A short (home) task to showcase your technical skills.
- Two Technical Interviews: Meet with the Technical team and later with the Hiring Manager to dive into your solution, as also discuss team fit.
- Onsite Interview (If not organized on prior interview stages): Meet with the local team and take a tour of our office for a final meet-and-greet.
- Finals Steps: Receive feedback and, if successful, an offer!
The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.
At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) - we believe skills evolve over time. If you're willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!