Sr. Platform Ops Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

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 &