Senior Engineer, DevOps

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineer, DevOps to join the Live & Collect Infrastructure team in Los Angeles. You'll 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.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• 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.

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Los Angeles Salary Range