DevOps Engineer

Salary: £44,000 - 84,000 per year

Requirements:

• 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of AWS products, including Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, CloudFront, S3, and IAM.
• Experience working with high availability websites.
• Experience with cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Contribute to our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives, and daily standups.
• Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations for a world-class product.
• Fix live bugs and triage issues with company peers so the root cause can be identified.
• Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing.
• Own your code throughout the full development lifecycle until it is live, with visibility and ownership over your work.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Lambda
• Beanstalk
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• IAM
• Terraform
• DevOps
• Security

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We are The Athletic, powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media. Our newsroom of 450+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs. We are hiring for a remote Engineering role based in London. Our Infrastructure team builds internal tools and services that improve product availability and engineering productivity, and we are passionate about performance, delivery, and metrics. We offer unique perks and benefits to full-time employees based on country of residence, and our UK benefits packages are competitive to the local market. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

last updated 36 week of 2026