Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform, and they are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to serve as the first dedicated cloud engineering hire. This role involves designing and delivering a scalable cloud foundation, defining cloud strategy, and mentoring engineers on cloud best practices.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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