Platform Engineer III - (Infrastructure, Compute & Networking)

Fanatics • New York, NY

78d • $108,000 - $186,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Platform Engineer III (Infrastructure, Compute & Networking) role empowers our engineering teams by delivering rock-solid cloud foundations. Joining our OddsFactory division, you'll focus on Azure best practices, networking, cluster/compute operations, and secure connectivity. OddsFactory powers in-play features at massive scale (billions of simulations/month). Today we run Windows services on Service Fabric in Azure; we're accelerating Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD) and exploring dual-cloud opportunities. In this Pipelines-focused role, you'll build secure, scalable CI/CD frameworks and developer tooling that streamline deployments and improve code quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure roles operating Azure production environments
• Hands-on expertise in Azure networking and security services (VNets, routing, NSGs/ASGs, Firewall, WAF/AGW, Private Link/Endpoints, DNS, load balancing)
• Operations experience with Service Fabric and/or Kubernetes cluster administration in production
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; Terragrunt preferred; ARM/CloudFormation a plus)
• Proficiency with programming/scripting (PowerShell & .NET preferred; familiarity with Go or Python is a bonus)
• Experience with observability (e.g., Datadog), chaos testing, and incident management
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills; comfortable partnering across international teams
• Outcome-oriented and data-driven; balance reliability, security, and delivery speed
• Effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across diverse teams
• Positive, flexible attitude comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Nice To Haves

• Resilience & Continuity: Multi-AZ/region architectures; automated failover; defined RTO/RPO with regular DR/chaos exercises and recovery runbooks
• Traffic & Policy Plane: Service mesh awareness (mTLS, policy) and edge/CDN/WAF patterns; Cloudflare integrations (WAF, Workers/Queues, Access/Zero Trust, CDN)
• Packaging & Delivery: Helm and/or kustomize for cluster add-ons; Argo CD progressive delivery; multi-cluster promotion; app-of-apps patterns
• Secrets & Identity: External Secrets patterns; Azure Key Vault/AWS KMS; workload identity/OIDC; least-privilege RBAC; policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno)
• Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports
• Experience supporting scalable, real-time, or event-driven systems
• Experience in fast-paced or start-up environments

Responsibilities

• Provision and operate compute foundations: VM Scale Sets, Service Fabric clusters (Windows nodes), and Kubernetes clusters (Windows/Linux node pools), including upgrades, node image/patching, and custom autoscaling solutions
• Implement secure-by-default and Zero Trust patterns across network and runtime (segmentation, least privilege, workload identity/OIDC, egress controls, policy-as-code)
• Build reusable IaC modules and guardrails (RBAC, Azure Policy) that standardize landing zones and paved paths for product teams
• Collaborate with application/platform teams on connectivity patterns (service endpoints, private access, ingress/egress), documentation, and enablement
• Establish SLOs and deep observability for infra/network (Datadog), including metrics, traces, logs, flow logs, dashboards, alerts, and actionable runbooks
• Partner with teams to onboard to golden paths; provide enablement, examples, and reference implementations
• Contribute to capacity planning, cost optimization (FinOps), and operational readiness
• Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents
• Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K
• Paid time off
• GymPass
• Pet Insurance
• Family Care Benefits
• $700 to set up your home office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Broadcasting and Content Providers
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees