DevOps & SRE Engineer for Sports Recruiting Platform

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

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.