SPORTS ENGINE is looking for a DIRECTOR PLATFORM OPS to build their next big thing in platform growth across Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango at Home, SportsEngine, and SportsEngine Play. The role aims to lead and scale the platform engineering function while remaining hands-on, providing technical and strategic leadership, mentoring engineers, and designing, building, and operating core cloud and platform services.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Python, Terraform, and GitOps (ArgoCD).
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (Postgres, MySQL).
- Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
- Familiarity with AWS, Terraform IaC, Configuration Management (Ansible & Puppet) Kubernetes, k9s, ArgoCD, Database Engines (Mongo, Postgres, MySQL)
- Background in building or maintaining systems that support highly scalable application environments and event driven architectures
- Fundamentals of running AI related services
Responsibilities
- Drive and participate in solution architecture and delivery across diverse domains, offering expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and resources, containers (ECS/Kubernetes) and cloud-native architectures
- Develop, enhance, and operate platform capabilities including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, reusable patterns, and automation solutions that enable rapid, reliable, and secure deployments
- Design and implement standardized, reusable cloud infrastructure patterns and templates that help teams adopt best practices while maintaining security and compliance requirements
- Lead and enable the platform team in delivering consistent adoption of software delivery practices and solutions that optimize for fast feedback, observability, and operational excellence
- Evaluate existing standards and practices, identify gaps, and implement improvements to strengthen Development, Security, and Operational practices across the organization
- Work with emerging technologies around AI, MCP, RAG.
- Develop and integrate AI/LLM solutions using modern frameworks and APIs.
Other
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure/platform/operations engineering, with 5+ years in leadership.
- Track record as both a technical contributor and team leader.
- Excellent communication, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills through proactive status updates, clear documentation, knowledge sharing, and effective collaboration when facing technical challenges
- Fully Remote
