Overview

Our mission is to improve the performance of athletes and teams, engineering the premier technology platform for sport. Since 2006 we have been at the forefront of sports technology and science, actively changing the future of the industry. Our solutions help athletes and coaches “play smart” by delivering performance insights that can make the difference between winning and losing. We work with thousands of teams worldwide to optimize athletes’ health, game-day readiness, and performance, and to enhance in-game tactics through video analytics and athlete monitoring solutions.

We are building the next-generation cloud platform that unites digital video, wearable data, and athlete information to unlock powerful insights for coaches, sports scientists, and athletes. Our vision is to empower every athlete to reach their full potential by transforming data into meaningful performance breakthroughs. As our DevOps Team Lead, you will guide the systems, teams, and innovations that make this possible and help shape the future of sports performance.

About the Role

We are seeking a Principal DevOps Team Lead to own and scale our company’s infrastructure across both cloud and on‑prem environments. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you will set technical direction, drive best practices, and lead a team responsible for the reliability, security, cost efficiency, and scalability of our platforms. You’ll partner with engineering, security, and finance stakeholders to ensure infrastructure is robust, compliant, and a force multiplier for product development.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional DevOps/Platform Engineering team.
• Define and drive the long-term infrastructure strategy, balancing innovation, reliability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Engineering, Security, and Finance leadership to align infrastructure priorities with company goals.
• Champion automation, observability, and operational excellence across the organisation.
• Application Security (AppSec): Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform services.
• FinOps / Cost Management: Establish cost governance practices, provide visibility into spend, and optimise usage across cloud platforms.
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR as applicable) and implement best-in-class cloud security controls.
• Software Delivery Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery.
• Infrastructure Automation & IaC: Own infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Observability & Reliability: Build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure system health and performance.
• Security & Compliance: Maintain compliance of on‑prem infrastructure in line with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Operations & Maintenance: Ensure the availability, scalability, and performance of physical and hybrid infrastructure, including networking, storage, and compute.

What You’ll Need

• Required
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Deep expertise in the AWS cloud platform and associated security and compliance practices.
• Strong background in infrastructure automation (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
• Proven track record implementing and governing cost control / FinOps frameworks in cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of AppSec principles, including integrating security into build and deploy pipelines.
• Experience managing hybrid environments, including traditional data centers and on‑prem services.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across engineering, security, and finance.
• Nice-to-Have
• Experience with regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, fintech).
• Familiarity with multiple compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
• Strong networking and systems engineering background.
• Hands-on coding or scripting experience (Python, Go, or similar).

Why Catapult?

• We have amazing people. You will work with ambitious and intelligent colleagues in an exciting industry and do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage constructive, open and honest communication to make Catapult extraordinary; innovate and create smart solutions; establish a collaborative yet challenging environment to develop performance for our teams and customers.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries, offering opportunities to collaborate across nationalities and cultures.
• We value growth and development, maintaining a growth mindset and offering opportunities to learn, grow, and take on new challenges.

Whether you’re interested in sports or not, your work will support some of the most successful teams and athletes on the planet. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every listed point; we’d love to chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team.

All offers of employment are subject to Catapult’s positive prehire check. To find out more, contact the Talent Partner for this role.

Demographic & Diversity Questions

Non-US Demographic Questions (optional diversity and inclusion survey): Our vision is to empower every athlete and team with technology to perform at their best. We celebrate diversity and seek to build an inclusive culture. The survey is optional and anonymised, and responses are used to analyse our diversity and inclusion efforts. By submitting, you consent to data collection for this purpose.