Senior Cloud Engineer - NCF

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