Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlayOn Sports provides technology supporting high school sports through ticketing, streaming, fundraising, and related services. The Staff Cloud Engineer will own the technical direction of the AWS platform, improve cloud cost visibility and efficiency, and accelerate safe production deployments. The role also involves operating Amazon EKS, developing Terraform-based self-service infrastructure, modernizing workloads, strengthening platform security, and mentoring senior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Give every engineering team clear visibility into what their applications cost to run in the cloud, so they can make informed decisions that lower spend
- Reduce cost to serve across our AWS footprint without sacrificing reliability during live events
- Shorten the path from merged pull request to safe production deployment
- Make environment provisioning self-service so product teams stop waiting on tickets
- Set multi-quarter technical direction for cloud infrastructure, documented well enough to outlast any single person
- Build the reporting and tooling that surfaces cloud spend by domain, team, and project, and put it where engineers will actually see it
- Own our Kubernetes platform on EKS: cluster architecture, upgrade strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and workload isolation
- Design and maintain Terraform modules and reusable patterns that let product teams provision infrastructure safely without waiting on a ticket
- Standardize CI/CD across services with progressive delivery, automated rollback, and deployment practices that make production changes routine rather than eventful
- Plan and execute modernization and migration work, moving legacy workloads to containers and self-managed services to managed ones, incrementally rather than all at once
- Harden the platform alongside security: IAM boundaries, secrets management, network policy, image provenance, and audit posture
- Participate in on-call for platform services and lead incident response when infrastructure is implicated
- Raise the technical bar through design review, code review, and mentorship of senior engineers
Skills
- 7+ years of professional infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering experience, including time at a staff or equivalent senior individual-contributor level
- Deep, production-grade experience operating Amazon EKS under real load, including cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, and debugging failures in a running cluster
- Expert-level Terraform experience, including module design and state management across many environments
- Fluency with the CNCF ecosystem and the AWS Well-Architected Framework as working tools
- Experience building cost and usage visibility that engineering teams actually used: dashboards, showback, or tooling that changed how teams made decisions
- Experience planning and executing cloud modernization and migration work without a rewrite-everything approach
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript, enough to build real tooling rather than only glue scripts
- Working knowledge of AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFront, RDS, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer
- Experience driving technical change across teams you don't manage
- Strong written communication; at this level, a well-argued design document is a primary deliverable
- Experience with high-throughput video, streaming, or real-time media delivery, including CDN and edge architecture
- Observability experience grounded in OpenTelemetry (we run New Relic)
- Service mesh experience, Istio specifically
- Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler, Graviton, and Spot
- GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, and progressive delivery frameworks
- Experience as the first or most-senior infrastructure engineer on a team, establishing platform practice close to a blank slate
- Knowledge of or interest in sports, sports management, and statistics
Benefits
- Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from
- Dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Employee Emergency Fund
- Company equity (stock options)
- Open PTO policy
- 401K plan with company match
- Hybrid/flexible work environment
- Full-time employees are eligible to participate in the company's employee health benefit plan
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