Tennis Channel is rebuilding its digital experience from the ground up, including mobile apps, TV apps, content management, analytics, monitoring, and live/VOD video delivery, with AWS as the core cloud platform. They are looking for an experienced Senior AWS Platform / DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and operate the backbone of this new streaming platform.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL & MySQL) in production: deployment, performance tuning, backups, upgrades, and security
- Strong background with core AWS services: API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, WAF, ElastiCache
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK strongly preferred; Terraform/CloudFormation acceptable with willingness to switch)
- Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or Jenkins)
- Strong grasp of IAM, VPC networking, and AWS security best practices
- Experience with observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, logging pipelines, and alerting
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash)
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure: API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL & MySQL/Aurora), DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, WAF, and Kinesis.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK (preferred) or Terraform.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline).
- Configure IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access.
- Implement and monitor CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF.
- Set up CloudWatch metrics, dashboards, and alarms.
- Extend infrastructure into AWS Media Services (MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConvert, MediaTailor) for live and VOD streaming.
Other
- This is a hands-on role where you’ll set up environments, implement automation, enforce security best practices, and establish standards that future engineers will follow.
- You will own our AWS environment end-to-end: infrastructure, automation, observability, and security.
- As our first DevOps hire, you’ll work directly with the Head of Engineering (ex-Amazon, ex-Prime Video) and a small, senior development team.
- Strong communication and documentation skills; able to work independently in a small, fast-moving team
- This role is based in Seattle.
