Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps, or related engineering disciplines.
• Experience building and supporting internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or developer tooling.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD technologies, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar platforms.
• Experience with AWS cloud services and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience working with containerized environments and orchestration technologies including Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability practices and tools, including Datadog and application performance monitoring solutions.
• Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams or product domains.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to create clear technical documentation, guides, and operational runbooks.
• Experience supporting modern application frameworks and cloud-native architectures.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems and developer platforms.

Bonus Points

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer.
• Experience supporting high-scale consumer-facing digital platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Experience with developer portals, service catalogs, or internal platform products.