Sr. DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores. 

As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

We're seeking a proficient AWS Cloud Engineer to bolster our Data Engineering, Science, and Analytics team. Are you driven by a passion to harness your cloud engineering expertise, empowering data professionals to tackle business challenges? In this role, you'll design, develop, launch, monitor, and refine tools and services essential for data engineers, scientists, machine learning specialists, and analytics engineers. This enables them to craft data-centric and ML-driven applications that significantly influence our business outcomes. Our team is primed for applying their engineering and data science prowess to unearth vast business potentials, drawing critical insights from diverse data sources, sophisticated statistical frameworks, and ML algorithms, subsequently transforming these into actionable business steps. Every day will usher in fresh challenges and captivating tasks, tailored to your skills and passions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, maintain, and evolve cloud-native tools, services, reusable modules, and frameworks to automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure that empowers data engineers/scientists/analytics engineers to build data and ML-related applications to deliver data products for Fanatics Collectibles users.
• Implement automation and orchestration services to streamline and optimize cloud-related processes.
• Collaborate with our Data Engineering, Science, and Analytics team to adopt industry best practices on cloud-based service usage.
• Proactively research emerging technologies, evaluate their suitability in our existing tech stack, and incorporate them when business needs warrant.
• Create and maintain documentation of services and modules for internal consumption.
• Closely partner with Information Security teams to incorporate security requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of professional experience working in AWS.
• 5+ years of experience using CI/CD frameworks and implementing best practices.
• 7+ years of experience in software development.
• Proficient in Java, Python, SQL.
• Proficient in a wide range of AWS services, especially those related to data, machine learning, A.I., and DevOps.
• Proficient in implementing and automating security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation in AWS.
• Experience in creating and deploying monitoring, metrics, and logging systems in AWS
• Experience with DevOps foundation, CI/CD, container technologies, orchestration technologies, and networking.
• Strong project management skills and experience using project management tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate technical issues and solutions to peers and external vendors.

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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