DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

NCSA College Recruiting; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vis

Flexible Spending Account and Health

401k with Employer Match

Disability Insurance

Life & AD&D

Gym Discount

Pet Insurance

Wellbeing Program

Job summary

NCSA College Recruiting is seeking a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to support SportsRecruits, our platform connecting student-athletes, clubs, events, and college coaches. You will help ensure systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable while boosting developer productivity and performance.

You'll collaborate with developers, QA, product, and a cloud security engineer to streamline builds, deployments, and infrastructure in AWS.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related engineering roles.
• Strong experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Experience configuring, debugging and deploying PHP applications.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and AWS ECR for container builds and deployments.
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.) and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Sentry, CloudWatch, or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging performance issues in databases, applications, and distributed systems.
• Experience with modern software development workflows (agile teams, code reviews, branching strategies).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Interest in leveraging AI agents to automate monitoring and diagnosis workflows

Responsibilities

• Configure, manage, and improve Bitbucket pipelines for deploying applications to staging and production.
• Improve CI pipeline speed, reliability, and security in collaboration with our Cloud Security Engineer.
• Assist developers and QA teams with deployments.
• Work with Docker and AWS ECR for container builds and deployment workflows.
• Review and investigate system issues flagged by Sentry, New Relic, and CloudWatch.
• Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions.
• Respond to production and staging issues, including database latency, unresponsive resources, or failed jobs.
• Maintain and support non-production environments used by developers and QA.
• Maintain and improve AWS infrastructure and Terraform resources.
• Perform updates and upgrades to AWS services as needed to ensure reliability and ability to scale.
• Partner with engineers to design systems that are scalable, observable, and resilient.
• Work closely with our cloud security engineer to ensure secure configurations in CI/CD, AWS, and containerized workloads.
• Contribute ideas and improvements to workflows, automation, and monitoring strategies.
• Leverage AI to automate monitoring and diagnosis.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD pipelines

PHP deployments

Docker

AWS ECR

AWS services

Terraform

Monitoring

New Relic

Sentry

CloudWatch

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Agile workflows

AI in monitoring

Tools

Bitbucket Pipelines

GitHub Actions

PHP apps

Docker

AWS ECR

Terraform

New Relic

Sentry

CloudWatch

Job description

About IMG Academy
IMG Academy is the world's leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future while preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy has been nationally recognized by organizations including Sports Business Journal, USA Today, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for its workplace culture, innovation, and commitment to developing people both on and off the field.

IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for student-athletes and partners through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:

• Boarding school and camps, delivered on a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Florida
• Online coaching through IMG Academy+, focused on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
• Online college recruiting through NCSA College Recruiting and SportsRecruits, providing industry-leading recruiting education, tools, and access to a network of more than 40,000 college coaches for student-athletes, families, club coaches, and event operators
• Elevate by IMG Academy, a performance and personal development solution that delivers mindset, leadership, and wellbeing programming to schools, colleges, and organizations through a combination of digital content and immersive experiences

Position Summary:

We're looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to join the team supporting SportsRecruits, our sports recruiting platform connecting student-athletes, clubs, events and college coaches throughout the recruiting process. You will play a key role in ensuring our systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable, while helping us improve developer productivity and application performance. You'll collaborate closely with developers, QA, product, and our cloud security engineer to streamline builds and deployments, maintain application infrastructure, and proactively solve issues before they impact our users. We are a product development team of committed engineers, designers, and product managers distributed across the United States. We are scaling the SportsRecruits network and building innovative tools to empower student-athletes, college coaches, and event operators. Our tools are built on technologies spanning mobile and web applications, computer vision, and LLMs. We emphasize performance, security, and maintainability - we love solving problems that have real-world impact on student-athletes, coaches, and partners.
Position Responsibilities:

CI/CD & Deployments:

• Configure, manage, and improve Bitbucket pipelines for deploying our applications to staging and production.
• Improve CI pipeline speed, reliability, and security in collaboration with our Cloud Security Engineer.
• Assist developers and QA teams with deployments.
• Work with Docker and AWS ECR for container builds and deployment workflows.

Monitoring & Incident Response:

• Review and investigate system issues flagged by Sentry, NewRelic, and CloudWatch.
• Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions.
• Respond to production and staging issues, including database latency, unresponsive resources, or failed jobs.

Environment & Infrastructure Management:

• Maintain and support non-production environments used by developers and QA.
• Maintain and improve AWS infrastructure and Terraform resources.
• Perform updates and upgrades to AWS services as needed to ensure reliability and ability to scale.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

• Partner with engineers to design systems that are scalable, observable, and resilient.
• Work closely with our cloud security engineer to ensure secure configurations in CI/CD, AWS, and containerized workloads.
• Contribute ideas and improvements to workflows, automation, and monitoring strategies.
• Leverage AI to automate monitoring and diagnosis.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related engineering roles.
• Strong experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Experience configuring, debugging and deploying PHP applications
• Hands-on experience with Docker and AWS ECR for container builds and deployments.
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.) and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Sentry, CloudWatch, or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging performance issues in databases, applications, and distributed systems.
• Experience with modern software development workflows (agile teams, code reviews, branching strategies).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Interest in leveraging AI agents to automate monitoring and diagnosis workflows

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Background Requirements:

• Requires a background check upon offer

Some positions, particularly those that have responsibilities working with student-athletes and supporting IMG Academy on campus with events involving minors, may require a L2 background screen. The requirement will be communicated during onboarding, and instructions for submission of level 2 backgrounds will be provided. Learn more about the screening process and requirements by visiting the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Education & Awareness website: https://info.flclearinghouse.com.

Benefits:

As a full-time member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive offering listed below. Connect with your talent acquisition specialist to learn more about benefits for our part-time roles.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
• 401k with an Employer Match
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
• Gym Discount Program
• Pet Insurance
• Wellbeing Program
• and more!

Don't meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Get to know us better:

www.ncsasports.org

www.ncsasports.org/careers

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