Work with us
We’ve been working at the highest level of motorsport for fifteen years and have built a strong reputation as innovators in our field. We’re always looking to strengthen our team, now more than ever. Our strategy involves creating more innovations, breaking new ground and scaling new heights at the same time as fulfilling our commitment to 100% delivery and no excuses.
Whilst we’re always interested in interesting people, at the moment we’re actively looking for an Event Leader to join our trackside race operations team based at Silverstone, and DevOps Engineers and Senior Software Engineers to work on our media platform team, remotely and out of Hove office.
Benefits
We offer a welcoming, friendly, and supportive working environment, we work hard but we give a lot back.
We care about employee development, happiness, wellness, and work life balance.
- A competitive salary
- 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays and lieu days after events
- Opportunities for ongoing learning and development
- Flexible working hours and remote working arrangements
- Group Life insurance
- Pension scheme
- Private healthcare
BGN provides an inclusive working environment that encourages diversity and equal opportunities for all. We are committed to supporting a team that is representative of a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
Event Leader
The Event Leader role is all about delivering our services at F1 races. It involves travelling to race locations and taking responsibility for the whaterver-it-takes services that make us the leading provider in the paddock. F1 is a global sport so this is a global role – but it starts at our operations centre in Silverstone, making sure everything is packed, the checklists are ready and the team is on point.
Like every other role in F1, it takes focus, attention and commitment. We also make sure it’s good fun and that you’ll be working with like minded souls who are just as committed as you are.
When not at events, you’ll work from our offices in Silverstone or Hove to support your colleagues and as part of our wider operations team.
Reporting to the Operations Director, your responsibilities will include:
- Delivering our trackside services at F1 events
- Managing a small team to install and uninstall our networking infrastructure, including to customer locations (team garages) at track
- Liaising with local telcos, circuit IT and paddock and team staff
- Logging and reporting any customers needs and systems changes
- Supporting other Event Leaders when not at an event
It’s a small team that spends a lot of time travelling and socialising together so a sense of humour is essential.
Experience with Cisco is essential. Other than that, if you’re the one, you will be able to manage under pressure in a fast-changing environment and will be:
- A great people and project manager
- Technically sound in voice/data networking
- Confident with switching, routing, wireless, security protocols and, ideally, have knowledge of Riverbed and VMWare ESX
- Good at problem solving and working to time critical deadlines
- Enthusiastic and always keen to improve
- Able to work at the standards of work, tidiness, and punctuality necessary in F1
- Experienced working under pressure, ideally in a motorsport environment
As the role requires global travel, a valid passport and full UK driving license is necessary.
For more information, or to apply for the role, please email your CV and a cover letter outlining why you are suitable for the role to recruitment@bgnevents.com.
Devops Engineer
We’re looking for an AWS Cloud / Devops Engineer to join our F1 team in Hove. The role is a part of the engineering and operations team and is critical to the success of systems used by F1 race teams at every event on the calendar.
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be focused on infrastructure and automation, helping our team to build, manage and automate throughout the development-to-deployment lifecycle.
Like everything in F1, this is a fast-paced and dynamic role. You’ll work closely with highly motivated and demanding developers within the constraints of time-critical production systems.
It can be hard, it can be intense and it can involve weekend working. It’s also good fun, interesting and occasionally exhilarating as you do your thing in an environment that the whole world is watching.
We are looking for an engineer to join our DevOps team with experience building and scaling services in our software-defined-infrastructure environment and out hit list of technologies:
- Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
- Linux system administration: deployment, log and resource usage analysis, etc
- Message bus / queuing (MQ) systems, particularly Apache Kafka
- Architecture automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, etc
Reporting to the Platform Architect, your responsibilities will be as wide ranging and influential as is normal in this role, including:
- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems
- Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability
- Creation, management, release, and configuration of production systems
- System troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Recommending and implementing architecture and process improvements
- Defining and maintaining metrics, logging, and monitoring systems
- Designing maintenance-and-management of automation tools
It’s a small team and we spend a lot of time together, which means the number one attribute is a sense of humour, especially when the going gets tough. You’ll be a team player that also takes individual responsibility and you have to take pride in your work.
On top of that, everyone who works at BGN:
- Is good at problem solving and working to time critical deadlines
- Is enthusiastic and always keen to improve
- Is hard working and committed
- Works to a high standard of work, tidiness and punctuality
- Enjoys social activities with colleagues in the evenings, in the day times, outside of work, between work. Actually, they just like people
Finally, Covid constraints allowing, we like everyone to visit F1 events so the role may involve international travel. This means a valid passport and full driving license are both useful.
For more information, or to apply for the role, please email your CV and a cover letter outlining why you are suitable for the role to recruitment@bgnevents.com.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our F1 team in Hove. The role is a part of the engineering and operations team and is critical to the success of systems used by F1 race teams at every event on the calendar.
As an Engineer, you’ll be bringing the vision to life, helping develop video and data streaming services that are built into the fabric of F1 and make a difference on race day.
Like everything in F1, this is a fast-paced and dynamic role. You’ll work closely with other highly motivated and demanding developers who understand that if you’re standing still, you’re going backwards.
It can be hard, it can be intense and it can involve weekend working. It’s also good fun, interesting and occasionally exhilarating as you do your thing with high-end technology and equipment, working with unique customers who you’ve known about for years in an environment that the whole world is watching.
As you can imagine, Covid willing, there are opportunities to travel to and work behind the curtain at some loud international events (and some rather anonymous business parks). You’ll get to hang out in some amazing places and really understand what it means to have a great team around you.
We’d love you to have decent on-the-job experience and knowledge of:
- Node.js and associated server-side Javascript libraries and architecture patterns
- React.js on the front end
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Message bus / queuing systems, particularly Apache Kafka
- NoSQL databases, particularly MongoDB
- Linux system administration: deployment, log and resource usage analysis
- Architecture automation using tools like Ansible and Puppet
We know that’s some list. Tell us how well you fit now, and how we can help you fill in the gaps.
It’s a small team and we spend a lot of time together, which means the number one attribute is a sense of humour, especially when the going gets tough. You’ll be a team player that also takes individual responsibility and has pride in doing great work.
On top of that, everyone who works at BGN:
- Is good at problem solving and working to time critical deadlines
- Is enthusiastic and always keen to improve
- Is hard working and committed
- Works to a high standard of work, tidiness and punctuality
- Enjoys social activities with colleagues in the evenings, in the day times, outside of work, between work. Actually, they just like people
Finally, given the occasional requirement for international travel a valid passport and full driving license are both useful.
For more information, or to apply for the role, please email your CV and a cover letter outlining why you are suitable for the role to recruitment@bgnevents.com.