Staff Cloud Engineer

June 19

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Underdog Fantasy

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Underdog Fantasy is one of the fastest-growing fantasy sports companies on the market.

sports • gaming • fantasy

201 - 500

Description

• As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will have an impactful role in building and determining the interoperability of our Kubernetes footprint. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies, creative problem-solving skills, and collaborative cross-functional abilities will contribute to delivering highly reliable, efficiency-focused infrastructure that enable us to create an engaging experience for our customers. In addition you will be tasked with the following: • Work cross-functionally to enable backend teams to develop confidence in how their applications will interoperate and perform across data centers. • Continuous optimization of our architecture for resiliency and recoverability to ensure business continuity. • Own the deployment of Kubernetes clusters to cloud providers and colocation data centers. • Define a technology stack to facilitate interoperability and discoverability of services deployed across data centers and regions. • Create tooling to automate maintenance and effectively operate the environments.

Requirements

• Skilled engineer who pushes the envelope and knows “good” gets us there, but “great” is what we continuously strive for • Lends expertise and contributes to the success of the team to foster interpersonal and individual professional growth • Open to feedback and eager to collaborate with other developers to accomplish tasks at hand • Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with engineers, compliance, and IT • Ability to analyze and make technical recommendations that minimize spend in cloud environments • Deep understanding of Linux and the command line • 8+ years experience with CI systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc) • 8+ years hand-ons experience with AWS • 6+ years experience working with cloud object storage (S3, Google Cloud Storage) • 6+ years working with Kubernetes • 6+ years working with Relational Databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc) • 5+ years working with infrastructure-as-code technologies like Terraform • .5+ years building custom roles and managing service accounts in IAM

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • A $500 home office allowance • A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents