DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure startup experience

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer / Platform Reliability Lead

OleOle is looking for a senior DevOps leader to own the reliability scalability and operational integrity of a global real-time football platform.

This s a hands-on leadership role. The core architecture technologies and product direction are already defined. The focus now is executionbuilding infrastructure that scales cleanly fails gracefully and supports millions of users during the worlds biggest sporting moments.

You will be responsible for ensuring that a complex multi-system platform operates as one reliable observable and secure system.

What you will own

End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure and platform reliability
Design and operation of high-availability fault-tolerant systems
Kubernetes-based environments supporting real-time social messaging AI and financial services
CI/CD pipelines that are safe repeatable and trusted by engineers
Monitoring logging alerting and incident response across the entire platform
Security access control secrets management and operational best practices
Production readiness for traffic spikes tied to live matches and global tournaments

This role exists to prevent problems before users ever see them and to restore systems quickly and calmly when issues occur.

What youll work on

Operating and scaling real-time systems for live scores messaging and in-match activity
Supporting AI translation workloads without impacting core platform performance
Ensuring wallet rewards and financial infrastructure remain secure auditable and always available
Managing production-grade MediaWiki infrastructure used for large-scale football history content
Designing failover strategies so no single system can take down the platform
Creating clear separation between development staging and production environments

What were looking for

Required

7 years of experience in DevOps SRE or platform engineering roles
Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
Proven track record running high-traffic real-time production systems
Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
Strong understanding of Linux networking and system debugging
Experience designing systems for reliability not just deployment

Strong plus

Experience supporting crypto platforms wallets or exchanges
Experience with Rust or high-performance backend systems
Experience with live data feeds sports trading or messaging platforms
Prior ownership of incident response and on-call operations

How you work

You think in systems not tickets
You anticipate failure modes instead of reacting to them
You communicate clearly and directly when something is unsafe or broken
You are comfortable making decisions and taking ownership
You focus on stability clarity and long-term maintainability

This is not a role for someone who wants to debate architecture endlessly. The decisions are made. This role is about making them work in the real world.

Qualifications :

Required Experience

710 years of experience in DevOps SRE or Platform Engineering
Prior experience at a startup or high-growth technology company ideally from early or mid-stage through scale
Proven ownership of production infrastructure for high-traffic real-time platforms
Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred)
Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments
Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or equivalent)
Demonstrated ability to design systems for reliability fault tolerance and scalability
Experience leading or owning incident response and production operations

Strongly Preferred

Working knowledge of Rust or experience supporting high-performance backend systems
Experience with blockchain crypto wallets or exchange infrastructure
Background in fintech payments trading or financial systems
Experience securing systems that handle transactions keys and sensitive data
Familiarity with real-time data pipelines messaging systems or event-driven architectures

What distinguishes a great candidate

You have seen platforms break under real-world pressure and fixed them
You understand how early technical decisions affect long-term scale
You know when to move fast and when stability matters more
You think in terms of risk failure modes and blast radius
You are comfortable taking ownership without needing constant direction

What we are not looking for

Junior or mid-level DevOps engineers
Candidates without real production ownership
Purely theoretical or certification-only backgrounds
Engineers who want to debate decisions instead of executing them

Additional Information :

Solutions not problems .

Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices lets build something better!
Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
Comfortable with ambiguity shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas however this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer / Platform Reliability LeadOleOle is looking for a senior DevOps leader to own the reliability scalability and operational integrity of a global real-time football platform.This s a hands-on leadership role. The core architecture technologies and product direction are al...