Fanatics, Inc.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Fanatics, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $136,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

  • Act as the primary owner of our cloud engineering function, driving standards, tooling, and best practices across the engineering organization.
  • Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure using AWS services and industry best practices.
  • Build, evolve, and maintain our infrastructure-as-code foundation using Terraform, with an emphasis on reusable modules and service templates.
  • Develop and maintain standardized service catalogs and infrastructure patterns to accelerate developer onboarding and reduce duplication.
  • Develop patterns, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and compliant software delivery.
  • Collaborate closely with application teams to design cloud-native architectures and guide them through implementation.
  • Drive cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, security, observability, and automation across the platform.
  • Lead technical planning, estimation, architectural reviews, and documentation for cloud initiatives.
  • Identify cloud optimization opportunities (performance, scalability, cost) and implement strategies to address them.
  • Conduct infrastructure reviews and provide mentorship to engineers to promote cloud fluency across the organization.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience building and supporting production cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong self-starter with a track record of independently identifying problems and delivering impactful solutions.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including guiding architectural decisions, reviewing designs, and influencing engineering best practices.
  • Deep proficiency with AWS (networking, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, VPC design, ALBs/NLBs, S3, etc.).
  • Strong expertise with Terraform, including module design, workspace strategies, and enterprise-scale patterns.
  • Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.
  • Experience standardizing infrastructure and building service / module catalogs or internal frameworks to drive reuse.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security principles, observability ecosystems, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Effective communicator able to collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
  • Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferably), container orchestration, or service mesh technologies.
  • Nice to Have: Prior experience as the first or early infrastructure/cloud hire in a growing engineering org.
  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).
  • Experience with cost governance, FinOps practices, or multi-account AWS architectures.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
AWSTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsKubernetescloud securityinfrastructure-as-codeservice catalogsmodule designDevOps practices
Soft skills
self-startertechnical leadershipeffective communicatorcollaborationproblem-solvingmentorshipinfluencing best practicesarchitectural reviewsdocumentationcross-team initiatives
Certifications
AWS Solutions ArchitectAWS DevOps EngineerAWS SysOps Administrator