Location: London,England,United Kingdom
About Football Radar
For over a decade, Football Radar has excelled in developing statistical models and analytical frameworks for football. Our expertise extends to providing advisory services to football clubs and offering leading-edge betting advice that has consistently delivered outstanding returns for our clients. We define ourselves as a unique blend of start-up dynamism and established business security, combining the flexibility of the former with the stability of the latter.
About the role
At Football Radar, we analyse and predict football matches. In the role of a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for helping design and maintain the cloud infrastructure that makes that possible.
This role is based at our London office, at 106 Kensington High Street, London, W8 4SG. You will have flexibility to work from home one day a week. Please note we are not considering remote candidates at the moment.
Role Requirements
We are running almost everything in AWS, and using Kubernetes for orchestrating most of our services. A big part of the job will be finding the best way to use AWS services and Kubernetes to help our development team to deliver the best software possible, so if you are not already an expert in these tools, you should aspire to become one. While we are using AWS ourselves, we will also consider candidates with a lot of cloud experience from a similar platform like Azure or GCP.
We’d love to hear from you if this sounds like you:
Extensive understanding of AWS services
Experience configuring and managing Kubernetes clusters
Practical experience of infrastructure as Code (IaC), such as Terraform or Ansible
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions
Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana
Experience with dynamically scaling infrastructure
Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills
Pragmatic mindset
Thrives on responsibility and ownership
Benefits
We have a range of benefits available at Football Radar and continue to review these to ensure our colleagues are gaining everything they can from them.
Half yearly bonus opportunities based on company performance
33 days holiday (Including bank holidays)
Competitive contribution matched pensions
Health and well-being benefits:
Private Medical Insurance (including excess coverage)
Health Cash Plan via Bupa
Subsidised gym membership
Daily subsidised office meals
Learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth
Company and team led engagement activities throughout the year
Football Radar is a leading provider of football betting advice. We specialise in predicting the outcome of matches and competitions, and have helped our clients achieve outstanding returns in the betting markets for almost 15 years.
The company was founded with one clear vision in mind: To become the no. 1 experts on football. With a unique approach that combines subjective input from highly skilled analysts with innovative modelling techniques, we believe that we can continue to take our understanding of the game to new levels.
Our insights are stress-tested daily for clients in the betting industry. We run a sophisticated testing infrastructure to continuously monitor and validate the quality and accuracy of our data. We combine automated testing with a commitment to analyst training and alignment to ensure our intelligence can continue to be delivered with confidence.
Our approach uses a qualitative methodology that sets us apart from our competitors. We continue to advance our understanding by redefining how football is understood. By managing the pipeline from data collection through to modelling and odds compiling, we are truly innovating the industry.
