Sr Platform Ops Engineer

Fandango is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to develop and maintain the core platform infrastructure supporting multiple brands, focusing on cloud-native architectures, automation, and developer productivity.

Location: United States

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core platform infrastructure that serves as the foundation for engineering teams.
• Drive and participate in solution architecture and delivery across diverse domains, including AWS cloud infrastructure, containers (ECS/Kubernetes), and cloud-native architectures.
• Develop, enhance, and operate platform capabilities such as CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, reusable patterns, and automation solutions.
• Design and implement standardized, reusable cloud infrastructure patterns and templates.
• Promote consistent adoption of software delivery practices, optimizing for feedback, observability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams, providing technical leadership and sharing knowledge.
• Evaluate existing standards and practices, identify gaps, and implement improvements.
• Communicate proactively through updates, documentation, and collaboration.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand needs and deliver solutions.
• Work with emerging technologies like AI, MCP, and RAG.
• Monitor and optimize cloud spend, implementing cost governance.
• Maintain SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, improve uptime, and implement reliability practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct design reviews.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, focusing on Infrastructure as Code.
• Minimum of 4 years managing and maintaining Linux systems.
• 3+ years of experience with Python for automation and scripting.
• Practical experience with Git and automated workflows.
• Familiarity with AWS security best practices, including DNS, secure VPCs, and database security (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Problem-solving mindset and eagerness to learn.
• Proven troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems.
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform, including module development and multi-environment workflows.
• Networking fundamentals: VPCs, load balancers, DNS, CDNs, service mesh.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK stacks.
• Incident management experience with PagerDuty, on-call rotations, post-mortem culture.