Senior Cloud Engineer
Company Overview
Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise and changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys. Through an innovative, tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today's on-demand culture, Fanatics operates more than 300 online and offline stores, including the e-commerce business for all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City). Fanatics offers the largest collection of timeless and timely merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world's biggest sporting events.
About the Team
Fanatics is first and foremost a technology company. We are powered by cutting-edge tech created by our small agile teams using the latest tools and technologies under our highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded leadership. As the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, we challenge ourselves by improving our new fully responsive NodeJS cloud commerce platform, Elasticsearch engine, and deep data science capabilities while building the best-in-class retail manufacturing and supply chain technologies. Our tech teams work together to revolutionize data science and engineering initiatives, provide highly scalable real-time and streaming platforms, and create secure e-commerce and in-stadium fan experience products. Our own e-commerce platform transacts in over 190 countries, 17 languages, and 14 currencies. Our motto is “#GSD”—get stuff done—and we do just that. If you want to be at the nexus of sports, commerce, and technology, come be a part of our industry-leading team here at Fanatics Tech.
In this position you would be responsible for delivering tools, services, frameworks, and modules that enable engineers to develop cloud-native applications.
GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, develop, and maintain tools, services, and reusable modules and frameworks to automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Provide Product and Engineering teams with standards and best practices on how to deploy and consume public cloud services.
- Proactively seek opportunities to improve team operational efficiency and consumption of cloud services.
- Contribute to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork.
- Operate with a product mindset.
- Provide training and documentation of services and modules for internal usage.
- Closely partner with Architecture and Security teams to incorporate respective requirements and best practices.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- 3 years of experience in software development with Java, Python, Golang, C# or .net.
- 3 years of experience using CI/CD frameworks and implementing best practices.
- Practical understanding of:
- Git, DevOps foundations, concepts like Service Ownership, SLAs and SLOs.
- Public cloud, preferably AWS, including concepts like VPCs, network Peering and Routing.
- Service Mesh, Control Plane Architectures, and Software Defined Networking.
- Infrastructure automation like Ansible, Terraform, or Cloud Formation.
- CI/CD Technologies like Gitlab, Jenkins, Spinnaker.
- Experience with container technologies like GKE, EKS, ECS, Docker, and Kubernetes desirable.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate technical issues and solutions to peers and external vendors.
- Strong active listening, conflict resolution, negotiation, consensus-building skills, and passion to learn new technologies.
Salary Range for Developing/Journey levels: $82,000 - $130,000
Salary Range for Senior levels: $120,000 - $170,000
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.
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