Staff Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Fanatics Inc.; New York, Denver (NY, CO); Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to join the UK & Ireland team. You will own and evolve core cloud and platform capabilities, lead automation and IaC efforts, and drive reliability, security, and developer productivity across our global software ecosystem.

You will collaborate with engineering teams across regions, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while supporting on-call rotations and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python and Java.
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge.
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform).
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience.
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems.
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively across regions.

Responsibilities

• Help drive technical design and delivery of core platform capabilities spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, Observability, CI/CD systems, and developer tooling.
• Architect, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS with a focus on reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity.
• Continue to drive Infrastructure as Code and automation practices across teams.
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs.
• Participate in and/or lead complex, cross-team initiatives and provide technical clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Job description

Fanatics seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to join the UK & Ireland team. You will own and evolve core cloud and platform capabilities, lead automation and IaC efforts, and drive reliability, security, and developer productivity across our global software ecosystem.

You will collaborate with engineering teams across regions, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while supporting on-call rotations and incident response.