Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

THE AGENCY

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA's diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organisations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations.

Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for nine consecutive years, CAA represents more than 3,000 of the world's top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, executive search, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.
OVERVIEW

CAA's Product Development team is looking for our next Senior Platform Engineer. This person will have a passion for technology. Join us and be a part of building next-generation mobile and web applications to drive the diverse, global, and fast-paced entertainment culture of our Agents, Executives, Artists, and Business Partners.
Overall, this engineer will deliver across a number of complex and varied technology projects requiring continual innovation and collaboration with key stakeholders to provide global solutions that meet all business and stakeholder requirements.

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
• Technical delivery across a number of applications, cloud-based platforms underpinning the company's bespoke line of business and corporate applications outside of North America.
• Build relationships across the various technology and business teams to share platform strategy and solutions in line with business needs and objectives.
• Execute global CAA Technology strategy and fiscal year budgetary plans.
• Continually enhance, design, architect, operate, secure and support CAA's application and platform environments to the company's demanding service level agreements, standards and operating practices.

Why CAA and this team:
• You will work with amazing colleagues who can help you learn and sharpen your skills.
• We embrace different perspectives and backgrounds as we believe it helps us make better decisions.
• You will work with a modern tech stack.
• We are not afraid to rethink existing designs and rebuild whenever needed.
• We welcome input on technical direction, architectural decisions, and design.
• You can lead projects to solve real user problems, including talking to our customers about their needs, designing solutions, writing the code, delivering it to production, and maintaining it.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

The role is right for you if:
• You understand the intricacies of API, Microservices, Application Platform and Database Management, and Project and Release Management.
• You have a thorough understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps.
• You are experienced with Scaled Agile / SAFe methodology.
• You are comfortable with monitoring and security solutions deployments.
• You understand cloud migration design, deployments, and automation.
• You enjoy test-driven development and believe testing is integral to developing high-quality code.
• You understand the intricacies of JavaScript and Node.js, for both front-end apps and back-end services.
• You have 5+ years coding experience preferably in JavaScript, HTML, or CSS.
• You have 5+ years of industry experience with Cloud technologies.
• You have 5+ years of experience with orchestration, hypervisor and virtualisation solutions such as Kubernetes, Docker Enterprise and VMWare.
• You are comfortable working in an agile environment using SCRUM or Kanban.
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• You operate effectively as part of a team and autonomously.

What sets you apart:
• Passion for building and implementing global, highly scalable, highly available solutions.
• Passion for building high-impact, well-performing user experiences.
• Experience building single-page applications in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with GitHub, React, Azure SQL, MongoDB and testing frameworks.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills working cross-functionally with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
• Entertainment or Sports industry experience preferred but not essential.
• Experience participating in cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information; orchestrating of writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery.

Please provide complete and legible information. An incomplete application may affect your consideration for employment.

Creative Artists Agency, UK Limited (the ''Company'') is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy and maternity or any other legally-recognized protected basis under UK law.

The Company also complies with applicable laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy5pxq-18-216-209-112-42 in your application.