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title: 'Devops Engineer (UK) at The Athletic Media Company'
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# Devops Engineer (UK) at The Athletic Media Company

- **Company:** The Athletic Media Company
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/theathletic/d9be5a59-2728-472d-ab07-c939366bf8fb

## Job description

## About Us

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s 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.

## About the Role

Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity. Engineers in this team are passionate about performance, delivery and metrics. As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services. You’ll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling, alerting and monitoring. We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help us build the best sports media app in the world.

## Responsibilities

- Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
- Contribute to and engage in 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 of building a world class product.
- Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem.
- Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until it’s live, giving them visibility and ownership over their work.

## Requirements

- 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of AWS products:
- Lambda
- Elastic Beanstalk
- ECS
- Cloudfront
- S3
- IAM
- Experience working with high availability websites.
- Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.

The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our UK benefits packages offer benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Click here to review our Applicant Privacy Notice, which describes how and when The Athletic Media Company collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of job applicants and prospective employees.

Beware of fraudulent job recruiting schemes! Our recruiters use careers@theathletic.com exclusively, and our team members will use an email address with @theathletic.com domain. We do not conduct interviews via text or instant message and we do not ask candidates to download software, to purchase equipment through us, or to provide sensitive personally identifiable information, such as bank accounts or social security numbers. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be a member of the recruiting/HR team at The Athletic but operating from a different email address about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to the law enforcement and to people@theathletic.com.

## About The Athletic Media Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Athletic is a subscription-based sports media platform delivering in-depth local and national sports coverage, podcasts, and videos without ads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by The New York Times Company, NYSE: NYT, in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in the provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Online Media / Sports Journalism
- **Target customers**: B2C – sports fans who want ad-free, high-quality coverage of specific teams and leagues.
- **Mission statement**: “Deliver powerful stories and smart analysis that bring sports fans closer to the heart of the game.”

## Products & Services
- **Subscription-based sports journalism**: In-depth articles covering hundreds of professional and college teams across NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, EPL, and more, spanning 47+ North American markets and all 20 English Premier League clubs.
- **Podcasts & Video**: A growing lineup of original audio and video content, including live commentary and long-form features.
- **The Athletic App & Website**: Personalized news feed where users follow specific teams and leagues.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Acquisition Price**: Acquired by The New York Times Company for $550 million (January 2022).
- **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Annual revenue of **$80 million** (LinkedIn estimate).
- **Total Funding**: $139.6 million across 8 rounds, including:
  - Series A ($5.4M, led by Courtside Ventures, 2017)
  - Series B ($20M, led by Evolution Media, 2018)
  - Series C ($21.8M, led by Founders Fund, 2019)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Courtside Ventures, Evolution Media, Founders Fund; parent company The New York Times.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Workforce of 696 employees (+12.3% year-over-year, +100 people).
  - Expanding internationally with offices in the UK, Canada, Australia, and Brazil.
  - Headcount growth in engineering, product, and design departments.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ad-free experience**: No pop-ups, autoplay videos, or intrusive ads, differentiating from most sports media competitors.
- **Deep local coverage**: Full-time beat writers in 47+ markets and all Premier League clubs, offering unmatched granularity.
- **Award-winning talent**: Editorial team includes writers from ESPN, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, and other top outlets.
- **Backed by The New York Times**: Financial stability, brand credibility, and shared resources (e.g., technology, distribution).

## Strategic Focus
- **Podcast & video expansion**: Growing original audio and video content to complement written journalism.
- **International growth**: Deepening presence in the UK (all Premier League clubs) and exploring other global markets.
- **Personalization & technology**: Investing in ML operations, video growth, and platform engineering to improve subscriber experience (open roles include Senior ML Operations Engineer, Senior Executive Video Producer).
- **Diversification of revenue**: Beyond subscriptions, exploring brand partnerships and commercial planning.

## Why Work Here
- **Great Place to Work® Certified** – 100% of employees say it’s a great place to work (vs. 57% at typical U.S. companies), per the 2021 Global Employee Engagement Study.
- **Culture highlights**:
  - 100% proud to tell others they work here.
  - 100% say people look forward to coming to work.
  - 100% say people care about each other.
  - 99% say they are given a lot of responsibility.
- **Remote & hybrid options**: Many open roles are fully remote (Senior Executive Video Producer, Manager Video Growth, Head of Social, Senior ML Operations Engineer, Business Development Director, etc.); some roles are hybrid (Manager Commercial Planning in NYC) or in-office (Executive Producer in Manchester, UK).
- **Notable perks**: Work for a sports media company that values substance over noise; collaborate with writers, editors, engineers, designers, and brand strategists from top media organizations.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on ML, platform engineering, and data-driven growth. Open roles include Senior ML Operations Engineer and various technical positions.

## Sources
1. [nytimes.com/athletic/careers](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/careers/)
2. [jobs.lever.co/theathletic](https://jobs.lever.co/theathletic)
3. [nytimes.com/athletic/about](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/about/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/the-athletic-media-company](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-athletic-media-company)
5. [greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7020395](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7020395)

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