Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teamworks is a sports technology company powering organizations across collegiate and professional sports. The Platform Engineer II will support day-to-day AWS infrastructure operations, manage deployments, build reusable infrastructure and CI/CD tooling, and improve platform observability and stability. The role also partners with application teams and participates in production on-call ownership.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day operations and maintenance of our AWS environment, including EKS cluster management, EC2, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, and IAM
- Manage deployments of new features and fixes, coordinating with application teams through structured intake and ad hoc request processes
- Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipeline templates (GitLab CI) that enforce organizational standards for scalability, compliance, and observability
- Diagnose cross-cutting infrastructure issues — networking misconfigurations, IAM permission boundaries, Kubernetes scheduling failures — evaluating blast radius and downstream impact before proposing solutions
- Partner with application teams to translate platform changes and new standards into clear, actionable guidance that reduces friction across the organization
- Drive improvements to environment observability and stability using Datadog, and participate in on-call rotation with full production ownership
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering
- Strong proficiency in Linux administration in production environments, including RHEL-based system management
- Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or comparable tooling
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure in AWS
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to translate platform changes into clear guidance for application teams
- You have experience with configuration management and automation tooling (Ansible, AWX, and Packer)
- You have familiarity with Python or shell scripting for operational tooling, or experience with Datadog or a comparable observability platform
- You have exposure to AWS Bedrock or AI agent development in an infrastructure context
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