Sr. Platform Ops Engineer

VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment - home to iconic and trusted brands that inspire, inform, and delight audiences. Our unique combination of content, technology and services enriches the cultural fabric, igniting passions, sparking conversations, and connecting people to what they love most.
As an independent, publicly traded company, VERSANT brings together powerhouse cable networks - including USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Golf Channel - with dynamic digital and direct-to-consumer brands such as Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. Together, these businesses reflect our commitment to delivering exceptional experiences across every screen and service.
VERSANT is an industry-changing media company fueled by innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. With a strong foundation and a forward-looking vision, VERSANT empowers creativity, embraces change, and drives connection in an ever-evolving world.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Fandango is looking for a SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER to build our next big thing in platform growth across Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango at Home.
In this role, you'll join the Platform Operations team and report to the Sr. Director of Platform Operations, contributing to the foundational infrastructure and tools that power how we enable developer productivity while delivering platform enhancements. As a Platform Engineer, you will focus on building and maintaining the core platform layers that support our engineering organization.
If you enjoy solving complex problems, building for scale, and making a measurable impact – we'd love to meet you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a Senior Platform Engineer on our team, you will:
Build and maintain core platform infrastructure that serves as the foundation for engineering teams across the organization
Drive and participate in solution architecture and delivery across diverse domains, offering expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and resources, containers (ECS/Kubernetes) and cloud-native architectures
Develop, enhance, and operate platform capabilities including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, reusable patterns, and automation solutions that enable rapid, reliable, and secure deployments
Design and implement standardized, reusable cloud infrastructure patterns and templates that help teams adopt best practices while maintaining security and compliance requirements
Demonstrate, enable, and promote consistent adoption of software delivery practices and solutions that optimize for fast feedback, observability, and operational excellence
Proactively collaborate with product and engineering teams, taking technical leadership in areas of cross-functional projects while sharing knowledge and best practices
Evaluate existing standards and practices, identify gaps, and implement improvements to strengthen Development, Security, and Operational practices across the organization
Demonstrate excellent communication skills through proactive status updates, clear documentation, knowledge sharing, and effective collaboration when facing technical challenges
Partner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs, refine requirements, and deliver solutions that enhance developer productivity while meeting project objectives
Work with emerging technologies around AI, MCP, and RAG
Cost optimization - Monitor and optimize cloud spend, implementing cost governance strategies and right-sizing recommendations.
Service reliability Maintain SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, improve uptime targets, and help implement reliability engineering practices.
Mentorship - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the platform team.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
AWS Expertise: 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with a focus on Infrastructure as Code
Linux Proficiency: Minimum of 4 years of experience managing and maintaining Linux systems
Automation/Scripting: 3+ years of experience with Python for automation and scripting
Git and GitOps: Practical experience and comfortable using Git and automated workflows
AWS Security Knowledge: Familiarity with AWS security best practices, including DNS, secure VPCs, and database security (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Communication & Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
Problem-Solving Mindset: Eagerness to learn, grow, and tackle challenges in a fast-paced environment
Troubleshooting & debugging - Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues across networking, compute, storage, and application layers. Comfortable with packet captures, log analysis, performance profiling, and diagnosing intermittent failures in production.\
Terraform / Infrastructure as Code: 3+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, and multi-environment workflows. Comfortable writing, reviewing, and maintaining IaC that provisions and manages cloud infrastructure at scale.
Networking fundamentals — VPCs, load balancers, DNS, CDNs, service mesh, network troubleshooting.
Monitoring/Observability — Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK stacks.
Incident management experience — PagerDuty, on-call rotations, post-mortem culture.
BONUS POINTS FOR:
AWS Certifications: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Background in building or maintaining systems that support scalable application environments and event-driven architectures
Understanding of container security and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Fundamentals of running AI-related services
Experience contributing to open-source projects or internal platform tools
Multi-account AWS strategy (Organizations, Control Tower, Landing Zones
Chaos engineering / game days
Platform-as-a-product thinking (internal developer portals, Backstage)
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.
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