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Fanatics · 9 hours ago

Platform Engineer III - (Pipelines & Developer Experience)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$162K/yr - $212K/yr

5+ years exp

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform, and they are seeking a Platform Engineer III to enhance the productivity and reliability of software delivery. In this role, you will design and maintain CI/CD frameworks and developer tooling while ensuring the security and scalability of the platform.

eSportsManufacturingRetailSporting GoodsSports

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain reusable CI/CD templates and workflows in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions (YAML‑first, DRY, versioned)

Embed secure‑by‑default and Zero Trust practices in pipelines (secretless with OIDC, least privilege, policy‑as‑code, scanning)

Improve developer experience: faster feedback loops, quality gates, ephemeral/preview environments, and great documentation

Instrument pipeline observability (Datadog or equivalent) and define SLOs (queue time, lead time, change fail rate, MTTR) to drive reliability

Automate IaC workflows (Terraform/Terragrunt) and integrate testing, artifact/versioning, and release orchestration

Partner with teams to onboard to golden paths; provide enablement, examples, and reference implementations

Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents

Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions

Qualification

Platform engineeringCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as CodeCloud-native environmentsContainer orchestrationScriptingProgrammingObservability toolingAnalytical skillsProblem-solving skillsEffective communicationPositive attitudeCollaboration skills

Required

5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles

Application development experience (backend or frontend)

Practical experience in cloud-native environments (Azure preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes or Service Fabric)

Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems (Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, CloudFormation)

Proven ability to implement and maintain CI/CD release pipelines

Experience with scripting and programming (.NET preferred; familiarity with Go, Python, PowerShell beneficial)

Knowledge of observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to closely collaborate with engineering teams

Highly outcome-oriented, pragmatic, and capable of balancing quality with productivity

Effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across diverse teams

Positive, flexible attitude comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Preferred

Resilience & Continuity: DR plans for CI/CD (artifact integrity, reproducible pipelines, backup runners/agents); metrics‑driven SLOs and MTTR reduction

Traffic & Policy Plane: Service mesh‑aware rollout strategies (canary/blue‑green) coordinated via pipelines

Packaging & Delivery: Helm/kustomize templating at scale; Argo CD progressive delivery and multi‑cluster deployments; promotion workflows (dev→staging→prod), release automation, and rollback patterns

Secrets & Identity: Secretless builds with OIDC; External Secrets for environments; policy‑as‑code in CI/CD (signing, SBOMs, provenance, guardrails)

Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports

Experience supporting scalable, real-time, or event-driven systems

Experience in fast-paced or start-up environments