Senior Engineer, DevOps

About Fanatics Collectibles Fanatics is committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience. As a leading global sports platform, Fanatics allows fans to buy, bet, and collect while engaging with sports in deeper, more immersive ways. Fanatics is redefining how fans connect with their favorite teams and players. Through its businesses—Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Fanatics Events, Fanatics Markets, and Fanatics Studios—the company has built a powerful, integrated ecosystem. By bringing together licensed fan gear, physical and digital trading cards, live events, and more, Fanatics delivers personalized experiences to over 100 million fans worldwide. Fanatics currently holds partnerships with over 900 sports properties, including professional and college teams, leagues, players’ associations, and retail partners. Fanatics also partners with over 5,000 athletes and celebrities, including 250 exclusive partnerships, and has over 2,000 retail locations. Beyond these partnerships, Fanatics has its own powerhouse team of more than 22,000 global employees.

Fanatics Collectibles

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fanaticsinc.com

10,001+ employees

Technology, Information and Internet

New York, NY

Privately Held

438k LinkedIn followers

Raised $4.9B

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure across AWS and
• GCP using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Own core cloud platform services — Kubernetes, networking, and CI/CD
• pipelines.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted tooling (e.g., LLM-based automation,
• AIOps, intelligent monitoring) to improve infrastructure efficiency and
• operations.
• Partner with product and platform engineering teams to architect cloud
• solutions that support high-traffic, high-availability Live & Collect
• systems.
• Administer and tune managed and self-hosted databases (Cloud Spanner, AWS
• RDS, PostgreSQL), including performance tuning, capacity planning,
• backup/recovery, and query optimization.
• Drive reliability and cost-efficiency initiatives across multi-cloud
• environments.
• Champion DevOps best practices, scalable infrastructure patterns, and
• observability standards across engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, automation, and operational
• excellence.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving production
• incidents to meet SLAs.
• Contribute to security hardening, compliance, and disaster-recovery planning
• for cloud infrastructure.

Required

• Infrastructure team in Los Angeles. You'll design, build, and operate the cloud
• foundation that powers Fanatics' Live & Collect platforms across AWS and GCP.
• This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving hard infrastructure
• problems at scale, applying AI/ML tooling to infrastructure and operations,
• mentoring other engineers, and championing DevOps maturity across the org.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles,
• with production experience in both AWS and GCP.
• Strong background with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and
• container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Hands-on database administration and tuning experience with Cloud Spanner,
• AWS RDS, and PostgreSQL (performance tuning, replication, backup/recovery,
• capacity planning).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps automation practices.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-powered tooling for infrastructure automation,
• monitoring, or operations (e.g., AIOps platforms, LLM-based automation,
• copilots for infra/ops workflows).
• Solid scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, or similar) for automation
• and tooling.
• Demonstrated experience operating and troubleshooting large-scale,
• distributed, high-availability systems.
• Comfortable carrying on-call responsibilities and driving incidents to
• resolution under pressure.
• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring other engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical
• experience.

Preferred

• Experience supporting live events, auctions, or other high-traffic consumer
• platforms.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI/ML pipelines or infrastructure
• for AI workloads.
• Relevant cloud certifications (AWS or GCP).
• Familiarity with cost optimization and FinOps practices across multi-cloud
• environments.
• Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.
• Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your
• recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and
• ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including
• @collectfanatics.com).  For added security, where possible, apply through our
• company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers
• The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or
• long-term incentive compensation.  This salary range is specific to Los Angeles
• and may not be applicable to other locations.  When determining base pay, as
• part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as
• location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our
• benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

• Los Angeles Salary Range
• $144,000—$180,000 USD