Role: DevOps Engineer
Position Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months (with possible extension)
Location: 100% Remote
Team Collaboration: Primarily with US-based engineering teams
Dedication: Full Time (160 hours per month)
Start Date: ASAP
About SportsEngine
SportsEngine, part of Versant Media, is a leading provider of Sport Relationship Management (SRM) software that powers youth and recreational sports organizations across the United States. The platform supports registration, scheduling, payments, communication, and operations for sports organizations and their communities. SportsEngine’s products support highly distributed systems used by more than 100 million users, requiring scalable, reliable infrastructure and modern cloud operations practices.
About the Role
SportsEngine is seeking a DevOps Engineer (Contract) to join its growing Operations team, which currently consists of approximately 5–10 engineers responsible for maintaining and improving the infrastructure that powers multiple large-scale products. This role will work closely with primarily US-based engineering teams while helping expand SportsEngine’s global operations capabilities. The ideal candidate is practical, reliable, and comfortable operating across several distributed systems, with strong experience in AWS infrastructure and Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code practices. Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across time zones are essential.
What You’ll Do
- Cloud Infrastructure Management
- Manage and improve cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS
- Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and secure
- Support infrastructure powering high-traffic distributed applications
- Infrastructure as Code
- Design, implement, and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure
- Maintain reusable and modular infrastructure components
- Improve automation and reduce manual infrastructure management
- Platform Reliability & Operations
- Monitor and maintain production environments
- Investigate and resolve infrastructure incidents
- Support uptime and operational stability across multiple products
- Collaboration with Engineering Teams
- Work closely with developers to improve deployment workflows
- Support CI/CD processes and release operations
- Provide guidance on infrastructure and performance optimization
- Multi-Product Support
- Operate across several distributed platforms and services
- Ensure infrastructure consistency across environments
- Maintain operational visibility across multiple systems
What We’re Looking For
- Required Experience
- 4+ years of DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure experience
- Strong experience with AWSci cloud infrastructure
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform
- Experience managing production systems at scale
- Experience supporting distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Technical Skills
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- AWS services and cloud architecture
- Monitoring, reliability, and operational support
- CI/CD and deployment automation
- Troubleshooting infrastructure and production issues
- Communication & Collaboration
- Strong English communication skills
- Comfortable collaborating with US-based teams
- Reliable and proactive communicator
- Comfortable working across multiple products and teams
- Languages
- English: B2 level or above for daily collaboration with US-based teams.
- Ukranian: Native or C2 Mandatory