Key Role Overview
The Platform Engineer III plays a pivotal part in supporting and enhancing engineering capabilities at Fanatics Betting & Gaming as we accelerate our mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform.
This role brings together infrastructure skills, software engineering knowledge, and operational excellence to maintain and improve a robust engineering ecosystem.
Responsibilities include:
* Developing and maintaining scalable platform infrastructure to support engineering teams effectively.
* Applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud-based environments using Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, or CloudFormation.
* Implementing and maintaining effective CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to enhance deployment speed, code quality, and team productivity.
* Assisting in initiatives to improve platform security by implementing best practices to ensure compliance and system integrity.
* Collaborating with software engineers, product teams, and quant analysts to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions that advance product development.
* Identifying and implementing continuous improvements to operational processes, documentation, monitoring, and alerting systems.
* Contribute actively to a culture of operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and best practices across teams.
* Enhancing system observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting strategies, and incident management.
* Integrating third-party systems into our development platform to enhance functionality.
* Performing root cause analysis for incidents spanning multiple connected systems, proactively identifying and addressing issues related to infrastructure, performance, and scalability.
* Staying informed on emerging technologies, advocating appropriate adoption that aligns with our platform strategy.
* Participating in an on-call rotation to maintain platform stability and respond effectively to operational incidents.