Platform Engineering

Fair Play Sports Media is an AI-driven, technology-led media network and Bet Tech infrastructure provider. Built on the 25-year legacy of oddschecker (founded in 1999), the group operates globally at the intersection of high-intent sports audiences, premium publishers and betting operators. By combining deep market expertise with technical proficiency, Fair Play Sports Media bridges the gap between sports content and sustainable monetisation.

Its global infrastructure runs on a proprietary data platform built to process over one billion odds on peak days and cover more than 30,000 sporting events annually.

The company nurtures a portfolio of highly engaged, trusted brands, including oddschecker, Who Scored, Super Scommesse and Confido Network.

Fair Play Sports Media is a Bruin Capital company headquartered in London, UK, and has operations in North America and throughout Europe, supported by a global workforce of over 200 employees.

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We champion diversity and operate an open and inclusive culture while remaining focused, fast-paced, and always making sure to have fun along the way.

So why not join Fair Play Sports Media and be part of something bigger...

Working Arrangements & On-Call Requirements

• Remote Working & Office Attendance: This is a flexible, remote-first role, with occasional visits to our London office next to Waterloo Station, typically one day per month and potentially a second day for meetings or training.
• On-Call Rotation: Participation in an on-call rota, covering one week every six weeks.

Role

Summary:

Fair Play Sports Media is building a tech-led, AI and data-powered sports media network that serves both owned brands (e.g., oddschecker, , Super Scommesse, and others) and partners with Bet Tech products spanning data, display, and predictive capabilities. At Fair Play scale - real-time data, high-frequency updates, and partner integrations - the Platform team provides the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability that let multiple engineering teams ship and operate reliable, compliant, high-throughput products.

Our busiest moments - major sporting events, new market launches, and B2B partner go-lives - are when the platform matters most, and the Platform team makes sure the foundations hold.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a hands‑on, pragmatic Platform Engineer (Dev Ops / Infrastructure) to own and deliver components within our Google Cloud Platform estate - across CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, and Kubernetes‑based workloads.

You’ll take part in the on‑call rotation, automate away operational toil, apply secure‑by‑default practices to everything you build, and support product development squads with the environments, pipelines, and tooling they need to move quickly and safely. You’ll work with limited oversight on 2–3 month pieces of work and contribute to larger initiatives led by Senior engineers.

Pillar 1:
Platform Engineering & Delivery

Building dependable automation so developers can ship confidently:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Design, build, and operate GCP infrastructure (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, Memory store, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC networking) as Terraform, following and contributing to the team’s shared modules and standards.
• Kubernetes Workloads: Deploy and run services on GKE - workloads, networking, storage, autoscaling, and Helm‑based configuration - and help product development squads containerise and operate their applications well.
• CI/CD: Build and maintain Git Lab CI pipelines: artifact management, environment promotion, and safe…