Catapultsports

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cologne, Germany. Posted 8 days ago

The role

You will build, operate, and improve infrastructure, platforms, and tools to enable reliable software at scale. This includes designing Kubernetes platforms, managing infrastructure as code, and building CI/CD pipelines.

What you will do

  • Design, operate, and continuously improve the Kubernetes platform across self-hosted clusters and AWS
  • Own infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible via a GitOps workflow
  • Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI
  • Operate and scale specialized infrastructure for GPU clusters, media engines, and data analytics platforms
  • Evolve the observability stack to monitor system health and ensure high availability
  • Drive platform security and compliance through vulnerability scanning, image screening, and access controls
  • Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and product teams to design scalable architectures
  • Help define technical direction, engineering best practices, and quality standards

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering
  • Proven track record of designing and scaling highly available production environments
  • Strong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, including upgrades, networking and troubleshooting
  • Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS) combined with experience operating bare-metal or self-hosted environments
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and modern container build or GitOps workflows
  • Problem-solving skills and the ability to evaluate technical trade-offs
  • Experience collaborating across engineering and product teams
  • Deep understanding of Linux operating systems
  • Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, or Bash) focused on automation and tooling

Nice to have

  • Experience operating GPU workloads on Kubernetes or Machine Learning infrastructure
  • Familiarity with specialized Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as FluxCD, Rancher, or RKE2
  • Experience working with large-scale video/streaming workflows or AWS media services
  • Experience managing and scaling messaging or event-streaming systems (e.g., Kafka)
  • Experience operating and optimizing relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
  • Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling for engineering teams

Before you apply

  • All offers of employment are subject to Catapult's positive prehire check

About the company

Catapult is a sports technology company that empowers professional teams to make data-driven decisions. They provide health, performance, video, and AI insights to over 5,000 teams worldwide.

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