Senior Cloud Engineer - NCF

Fanatics

50d•$136,000 - $170,000

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to serve as the first dedicated cloud engineering hire on our team. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, can identify opportunities without being asked, and is capable of designing and delivering a scalable cloud foundation that elevates engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization. As a senior-level individual contributor, you will partner directly with engineering leadership to define our cloud strategy, introduce best-in-class infrastructure practices, and create reusable patterns and catalogs that standardize how teams build, deploy, and operate software. You will also help shape long-term architectural decisions and mentor engineers across teams on cloud, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices.

Requirements

7+ years of hands-on experience building and supporting production cloud infrastructure.
Strong self-starter with a track record of independently identifying problems and delivering impactful solutions.
Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including guiding architectural decisions, reviewing designs, and influencing engineering best practices.
Deep proficiency with AWS (networking, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, VPC design, ALBs/NLBs, S3, etc.).
Strong expertise with Terraform, including module design, workspace strategies, and enterprise-scale patterns.
Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.
Experience standardizing infrastructure and building service / module catalogs or internal frameworks to drive reuse.
Solid understanding of cloud security principles, observability ecosystems, and modern DevOps practices.
Effective communicator able to collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferably), container orchestration, or service mesh technologies.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as the first or early infrastructure/cloud hire in a growing engineering org.
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).
Experience with cost governance, FinOps practices, or multi-account AWS architectures.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary owner of our cloud engineering function, driving standards, tooling, and best practices across the engineering organization.
Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure using AWS services and industry best practices.
Build, evolve, and maintain our infrastructure-as-code foundation using Terraform, with an emphasis on reusable modules and service templates.
Develop and maintain standardized service catalogs and infrastructure patterns to accelerate developer onboarding and reduce duplication.
Develop patterns, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and compliant software delivery.
Collaborate closely with application teams to design cloud-native architectures and guide them through implementation.
Drive cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, security, observability, and automation across the platform.
Lead technical planning, estimation, architectural reviews, and documentation for cloud initiatives.
Identify cloud optimization opportunities (performance, scalability, cost) and implement strategies to address them.
Conduct infrastructure reviews and provide mentorship to engineers to promote cloud fluency across the organization.