Senior Platform Operations Engineer

NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We're a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our three groups: Youth & Recreational Sports; Golf; and Betting, Gaming & Emerging Media.

At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. We equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with more than 25 sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips; TeamUnify, swim team management services; GoMotion, sports and fitness business software solutions; and NBC Sports Edge, a leading platform for fantasy sports information and betting-focused tools.

At NBC Sports Next we're fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology that provides the ultimate in immersive experiences.

This role is part of our Youth & Recreational Sports group, comprised of technology platforms such as SportsEngine, GoMotion, TourneyMachine, and TeamUnify. We enable athletes, parents, coaches and team administrators in the youth and recreational space to manage their organizations, collect payments, share schedules, find programs to participate in and connect with other families. Additionally, NCSI enables leagues and organizations to properly screen and train coaches in an effort to keep kids safe.

Come join us as we work together as one team to innovate and deliver what's Next.

Job Description

Based out of our Belfast offices or working remotely within the UK or Ireland, the Senior Platform Operations Engineer will be a key member of our Platform Operations Team, helping to build and support the core infrastructure of the SportsEngine Platform services and products through activities and key responsibilities that include:

• Contributing to efforts that ensure the continuous and smooth running of the SportsEngine platform while serving a large volume of traffic.
• Leveraging Amazon Web Services to build highly available services for the SportsEngine infrastructure platform built on top of the EKS, RDS and EC2.
• Developing Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Helping to foster a culture of cooperation, coordination, and continuous learning within the Platform Operations Team and with other Product Development teams throughout SportsEngine.
• Working closely with the SportsEngine Cyber Security Team to maintain and improve the security of the SportsEngine Platform.
• Contributing to and using our GitHub Pull Request-centered development pipeline as we continuously deliver value to our customers.
• Using tools such as NewRelic, Splunk and Datadog to monitor the health of the SportsEngine platform.
• Being an advocate for quality code and engineering practices that enable Continuous Delivery.
• Participation in a sustainable on-call schedule.

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of experience in the field of Software Engineering which operating web applications in a Site Reliability Engineering, Web Operations, or Cloud Engineering capacity.
• A strong foundation in modern infrastructure practices and the ability to deploy and operate maintainable, scalable secure infrastructure.
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable infrastructure automation.
• A team-oriented attitude and seemingly endless intellectual curiosity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired skills & experience
•AWS Experience
Experience in the following areas of AWS:
- EC2
- VPC - Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, ELB/ALB/NLB etc.
- IAM
- S3
- Managed data tiers - RDS/Elasticache etc.

• Experience in production with:
- EKS
- OpsWorks
- Lambda
- DynamoDB

• Kubernetes
- Production experience of running services in Kubernetes
- Ability to take a VM based application and migrate to Kubernetes

• CI/CD
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, assisting developers in delivering changes on a daily cadence
- Experience with TravisCI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Github Actions or similar technologies

• Automation
- Ability to script automation in one of either Ruby, Python, Go etc

• Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
Ability to author Terraform at a proficient level
Ability to break out reusable, opinionated and standardized actions into Terraform modules
- Chef/Ansible

Additional Information

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