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    Platform Engineering Lead - London, United Kingdom - Genius Sports

    Genius Sports
    Genius Sports London, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Description

    The Role

    :

    Join our team at Genius Sports, a key player in the sports data ecosystem dedicated to creating a sustainable environment for sports, betting, and media. As a global sports technology company, we operate on five continents and employ around 1,800 professionals. We are seeking an experienced Platform Team Lead to lead a platform team within one of our divisions, driving the development of scalable and robust systems using cutting-edge technologies.

    Responsibilities:

  • As the Platform Team Lead for the platform team, you will engage in the full software life-cycle while leading and managing the platform team. Your primary responsibilities will include:
  • Leading and line managing the platform team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
  • Providing technical leadership and guidance to the platform team, ensuring the successful delivery of projects.
  • Supporting achieving the business goals of the division, collaborating closely with the rest of the Engineering Leadership team for the division.
  • Working closely with the DevSecOps Director, the Platform Team Lead plays a pivotal role in orchestrating initiatives that foster uniformity and strategic coherence across the entire organisation.
  • Overseeing the maintenance and development of build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-infrastructure.
  • Ensuring the security of cloud-hosted systems and implementing security checks for new code entering production environments.
  • Developing and maintaining the observability stack for production services, covering alerting, metrics, logging, and dashboard creation.
  • Conducting constructive peer reviews of features and contributing to good reviewee hygiene.
  • Monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting systems owned by the platform team, including retrospectives, live-support, bug-fixes, and security improvements.
  • Measurement of productivity signals, such as cycle time and deployment frequency.
  • Maintenance and evolution of technical documentation (guides, runbooks, RCA/post-mortems, etc.).
  • Mentoring and coaching engineers within the platform team and across multiple disciplines.
  • Participating in and improving agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, retrospectives, and stand-ups for sprints and planning increments.

    • Required Skills and Experience:

  • Proven experience in leading and line managing technical teams, with strong mentoring and leadership skills.
  • Technical expertise in Operating Systems, Networking, Data Structures, Databases, and Caching Technologies.
  • Experience in conducting detailed postmortems, hardening systems, and deploying fault-tolerant systems at scale.
  • Technical writing skills.
  • Automation of repetitive tasks using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Powershell, etc.).
  • Expert-level knowledge of AWS best practices and common services.
  • Expert-level knowledge of at least one infrastructure-as-code language (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Detailed knowledge of building observable systems and understanding the fundamentals of cohesive dashboard design.
  • Detailed knowledge of build systems and building containerized applications.
  • Understanding of continuous delivery principles, including feature-switching, canary releases, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Understanding of core security principles and their application in continuous delivery systems.
  • Flexibility to work on all areas of the service stack, including front-end, back-end, and infrastructure.
  • Practical knowledge of at least one programming language (C++, C#, Java, JS, Kotlin, Python, PHP, Golang).
  • Knowledge of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or ECS.
  • Familiarity with messaging and asynchronous communication technologies.

    • Desirable Skills and Experience:

  • Knowledge and interest in sports.
  • Knowledge of testing methodology and designing high-quality testing suites resilient to changes in implementation.
  • Understanding of the principles of good software design, including awareness of core concepts such as information hiding, abstraction, module design, cohesion, and coupling.
  • Experience in capturing and exposing productivity signals to the engineering team.

    • What's in it for you?

    As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.

    How we work

    We have adapted a forward-thinking 'Ways of Working' framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Geniuses to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information in how it would work with this role.

    Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what's achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organisation and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.

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