Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Versant is a media and entertainment business serving sports, entertainment, news, and digital audiences through a portfolio of recognized brands. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead the reliability, scalability, and usability of internal developer platforms, tooling, and engineering workflows, while partnering across engineering, platform operations, and security teams to improve developer productivity and software delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of reliable internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and automation across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and related technologies
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA metrics, to improve developer-facing systems and software delivery performance
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices, platform standards, and self-service capabilities across multiple engineering teams
• Develop and maintain golden paths, service templates, scaffolding tools, and standardized engineering workflows that accelerate software delivery and reduce operational complexity
• Improve local development environments, CLI tooling, environment provisioning, preview deployments, and ephemeral environments to enhance developer productivity
• Build observability solutions and dashboards that provide visibility into CI/CD health, deployment success, build performance, developer wait times, and platform reliability
• Partner with engineering teams to identify sources of operational toil and implement automation that improves efficiency, reliability, and developer experience
• Support cloud-native workloads and deployment patterns across containers, serverless technologies, and event-driven architectures
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues impacting developer workflows, including build failures, test instability, deployment issues, and environment drift
• Collaborate with Security and Platform Operations teams to embed secure-by-default controls and compliance guardrails into developer workflows
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on platform architecture, automation strategies, observability, and cloud-native development practices
• Influence platform roadmaps and technical investments through data-driven recommendations and cross-functional collaboration

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps, or related engineering disciplines
• Experience building and supporting internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or developer tooling
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD technologies, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar platforms
• Experience with AWS cloud services and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Experience working with containerized environments and orchestration technologies including Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability practices and tools, including Datadog and application performance monitoring solutions
• Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams or product domains
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, guides, and operational runbooks
• Experience supporting modern application frameworks and cloud-native architectures
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems and developer platforms
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer
• Experience supporting high-scale consumer-facing digital platforms
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
• Experience with developer portals, service catalogs, or internal platform products