Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Opportunity:

Versant's Sports & Entertainment Digital Products division is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help drive the reliability, scalability, and usability of internal developer platforms, tooling, and engineering workflows across a portfolio of industry-leading brands including Fandango, Fandango at Home, Rotten Tomatoes, SportsEngine, GolfNow, and GolfPass.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader within the platform engineering ecosystem, helping shape engineering standards, drive reliability initiatives, and influence the evolution of developer experience capabilities across multiple product teams. You will partner across engineering, platform operations, and security teams to build scalable self-service capabilities, reduce operational friction, and enable teams to deliver software safely and efficiently.

Why This Role Matters:

Developer productivity is a force multiplier. By improving tooling, platform reliability, deployment workflows, and observability, this role directly impacts the speed, quality, and stability of product delivery across experiences that serve millions of sports and entertainment fans worldwide.

Work Environment:

This role is designated as fully remote and is expected to be performed from a non-Versant worksite, typically an employee's residence. While primarily remote, occasional in-person collaboration opportunities, team meetings, and business gatherings may occur throughout the year.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of reliable internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and automation across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and related technologies.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA metrics, to improve developer-facing systems and software delivery performance.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices, platform standards, and self-service capabilities across multiple engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain golden paths, service templates, scaffolding tools, and standardized engineering workflows that accelerate software delivery and reduce operational complexity.
• Improve local development environments, CLI tooling, environment provisioning, preview deployments, and ephemeral environments to enhance developer productivity.
• Build observability solutions and dashboards that provide visibility into CI/CD health, deployment success, build performance, developer wait times, and platform reliability.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify sources of operational toil and implement automation that improves efficiency, reliability, and developer experience.
• Support cloud-native workloads and deployment patterns across containers, serverless technologies, and event-driven architectures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues impacting developer workflows, including build failures, test instability, deployment issues, and environment drift.
• Collaborate with Security and Platform Operations teams to embed secure-by-default controls and compliance guardrails into developer workflows.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on platform architecture, automation strategies, observability, and cloud-native development practices.
• Influence platform roadmaps and technical investments through data-driven recommendations and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps, or related engineering dis