Senior Platform Engineer (AWS) | TypeScript, DevOps, SRE, AI-Native | Global Sports Platform | ~ $70-120/hour | Remote (US - EST/CST Preferred) | 2-Month Contract, C2C | FIFA World Cup Support

Owen Thomas is a B Corp™ company seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support a global sports platform during the FIFA World Cup. The role involves monitoring and supporting live production systems, collaborating with engineering teams, and ensuring platform reliability during high-traffic events.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and support live production systems during major sporting events
• Act as first-line engineering support across platform infrastructure and backend services
• Investigate and resolve production issues across AWS and distributed cloud environments
• Collaborate closely with the core engineering team to understand systems, tooling, and operational workflows
• Support backend services built primarily with TypeScript and Node.js
• Contribute to platform reliability, observability, alerting, and incident response processes
• Work across CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure
• Debug application and infrastructure issues across containerised environments
• Assist with scaling, performance optimisation, and operational readiness during periods of peak traffic
• Document incidents, operational runbooks, and platform improvements clearly
• Utilise AI-native tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or similar to improve engineering efficiency and troubleshooting workflows

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) within production-scale environments
• Strong commercial experience with Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Strong commercial experience with TypeScript and Node.js backend environments
• Strong commercial experience with production monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting systems
• Strong commercial experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling
• Strong commercial experience with containerised environments using Docker
• Strong commercial experience with debugging and supporting distributed systems and APIs
• Strong commercial experience with performance optimisation, scaling, and reliability engineering
• Strong commercial experience with incident management and live production support
• Strong commercial experience with infrastructure and operational troubleshooting within cloud-native environments
• Strong commercial experience with AI-native development workflows using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar
• Strong communication skills and the ability to operate independently
• Experience with C# or Python
• Experience supporting high-traffic consumer-facing platforms
• Experience within SportsTech, MediaTech, streaming, or real-time event-driven systems
• Exposure to load balancing, API gateways, and caching strategies
• Experience supporting globally distributed systems during live events
• Interest in football/soccer or live sports platforms