Sr. Platform Ops Engineer

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. 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