Senior DevOps Engineer (6 Month Contract)

TransferRoom is a hyper-growth B2B SaaS Marketplace on a mission to change the football transfer market for the better. We do this by empowering football clubs, agents and players to be successful in the transfer market by giving them real-time market intelligence and direct access to a global network of decision-makers.

TransferRoom is market leading and has become a must have for key stakeholders in football’s transfer market. It’s used by 800+ clubs, including Man City, Liverpool and PSG, 550 agencies and 8000 professional players. It has empowered clubs and agents to facilitate over 6000 transfers since launch in 2017.

Brief intro to the role:

TransferRoom is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with particular experience with DataOps to join our technology team. In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, implementing, and maintaining our DataOps and Test infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance for our applications.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with the Quality Engineering Development team to design, deploy, and manage secure, reliable, and scalable test infrastructure and tooling.
• Automate away as much manual effort from our Automated Test Strategy as possible.
• Establish, own, and maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Diagnose and troubleshoot system issues, identifying root causes and deploying effective solutions.
• Stay current with the latest advancements in cloud technologies and best practices.
• Write and maintain comprehensive system documentation.

Who you are:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role;
• Proven expertise in DataOps including tools such as Azure Data Factory, Liquibase or RedGate Flyway;
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud computing concepts;
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform);
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, C# or Bash;
• Familiarity with YAML, HCL, and JSON;
• Experience using tools like Jira, Git, and CI/CD pipelines;
• Administration experience with Microsoft SQL Server;
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills;
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams;
• Passion for automation and continuous improvement;
• Startup/Scale-Up experience with the ability to thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments;
• Excellent spoken and written English;
• Bonus: Experience with Redis and Cosmos DB administration.

What’s in it for you:

• Collaborative and supportive team environment;
• Opportunity to contribute to decision-making processes;
• Opportunity to engage with a diverse range of tasks and challenges, fostering professional growth and development as a developer;
• Dynamic and engaging work environment at TransferRoom;
• We are a unique combination of a scale up with security.

We are a fast scaling, category creating company with smart teammates who love what they do. With a unique combination as a scale up with security, we have an 86% Employee Satisfaction Score, a Likelihood to Recommend score of 8.3 and a score of 8.8 for how our colleagues rate their relationships with their coworkers.