Senior Engineer, DevOps

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles culture and technology. Backed by world-class investors operators and sports & entertainment partners we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans partners and creators.

Were looking for a Senior Engineer DevOps to join the Live & Collect Infrastructure team in Los Angeles. Youll design build and operate the cloud foundation that powers Fanatics Live & Collect platforms across AWS and GCP. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving hard infrastructure problems at scale applying AI/ML tooling to infrastructure and operations mentoring other engineers and championing DevOps maturity across the org.

• Design build and maintain scalable resilient infrastructure across AWS and GCP using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Own core cloud platform services Kubernetes networking and CI/CD pipelines.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted tooling (e.g. LLM-based automation AIOps intelligent monitoring) to improve infrastructure efficiency and operations.
• Partner with product and platform engineering teams to architect cloud solutions that support high-traffic high-availability Live & Collect systems.
• Administer and tune managed and self-hosted databases (Cloud Spanner AWS RDS PostgreSQL) including performance tuning capacity planning backup/recovery and query optimization.
• Drive reliability and cost-efficiency initiatives across multi-cloud environments.
• Champion DevOps best practices scalable infrastructure patterns and observability standards across engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers on cloud architecture automation and operational excellence.
• Participate in an on-call rotation responding to and resolving production incidents to meet SLAs.
• Contribute to security hardening compliance and disaster-recovery planning for cloud infrastructure.

• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering infrastructure or SRE roles with production experience in both AWS and GCP.
• Strong background with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Hands-on database administration and tuning experience with Cloud Spanner AWS RDS and PostgreSQL (performance tuning replication backup/recovery capacity planning).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps automation practices.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-powered tooling for infrastructure automation monitoring or operations (e.g. AIOps platforms LLM-based automation copilots for infra/ops workflows).
• Solid scripting/programming ability (Python Go or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Demonstrated experience operating and troubleshooting large-scale distributed high-availability systems.
• Comfortable carrying on-call responsibilities and driving incidents to resolution under pressure.
• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring other engineers.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience supporting live events auctions or other high-traffic consumer platforms.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI/ML pipelines or infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Relevant cloud certifications (AWS or GCP).
• Familiarity with cost optimization and FinOps practices across multi-cloud environments.

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$144000 - $180000 USD