Lead Technical Operations Engineer
About The Position
At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It’s transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We’re not waiting for the future to arrive. We’re shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together. The Crown Is Yours As a Lead Technical Operations Engineer, you’ll design and scale the infrastructure that powers real-time, high-impact digital experiences. You’ll move beyond traditional operations, building, automating, and coding your way to a more resilient, intelligent, and efficient platform. Working at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and emerging AI tooling, you’ll drive how we evolve our infrastructure into a modern, engineering-led ecosystem.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience across Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, and/or Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong AWS expertise and experience designing cloud-native, distributed systems
- Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting (Python or similar)
- Hands-on experience building automation and CI/CD pipelines, with strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a high-performing, collaborative team
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure, establishing resilient patterns that improve performance, availability, and efficiency
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation pipelines to eliminate manual processes and reduce operational toil
- Evolve CI/CD workflows and apply SRE principles across monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Proactively identify risks in distributed systems and drive solutions end-to-end, including serving as an escalation point
- Design and implement AI-assisted tooling and intelligent automation to enhance incident management, root cause analysis, and system performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
