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VP, Cloud Operations
PlayOn! Sports. Unify Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps into one cohesive organization with clear charters, on-call ownership, and career paths .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive expertise in Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps, with a strong focus on AWS infrastructure management, incident management, and FinOps practices. Proven ability to lead teams, optimize cloud costs, and communicate effectively with executive leadership.
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AWS Infrastructure ManagementIncident ManagementFinOps Practice LeadershipInfrastructure as Code (Terraform)Containerization and Orchestration (Kubernetes)
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Hard Skills
Cloud ArchitectureSLOs and Error BudgetsCI/CD StrategyObservability and MonitoringCost OptimizationNetwork SegmentationIAMCompliance FrameworksProduction Workloads ManagementHigh-Traffic Systems
Soft Skills
Executive CommunicationTeam LeadershipMentoringBusiness AcumenVendor Negotiation
Tools & Technologies
New RelicCloudWatchTerraformKubernetesECSDatadog
Certifications & Qualifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS Preferred
Industry Keywords
Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsFinOpsSOC 2PCI DSSLive Streaming InfrastructureHigh-Performance OrganizationCloud Cost OptimizationIncident CommandCapacity Planning
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudKubernetesTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Unify Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps into one cohesive organization with clear charters, on-call ownership, and career paths
- Own availability and performance for live-streaming and ticketing platforms during peak concurrent loads
- Build and run a FinOps practice providing visibility into AWS spend and improving cost-per-stream and cost-per-event efficiency
- Deliver a self-service internal developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes
- Mature incident management, on-call, and postmortem practices to reduce MTTD, MTTR, and customer-impacting incidents
- Partner with Security to align infrastructure controls with SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS requirements
- Translate business goals into cloud infrastructure and reliability strategy as a technology leadership team member
- Own cloud architecture across AWS accounts and regions for NFHS Network, GoFan, MaxPreps, and PlayOn HQ
- Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; own incident command for major incidents
- Drive Terraform, golden-path provisioning and deployment, CI/CD strategy, and deployment standards
- Lead FinOps, including cost visibility, showback/chargeback, reserved capacity planning, and budget forecasting
- Own observability using New Relic, CloudWatch, and related tooling
- Plan capacity for playoffs, championships, and other high-traffic sporting events
- Recruit, mentor, and lead cloud engineering, SRE, and DevOps managers and senior engineers
- Define infrastructure KPIs and report to the CTO and executive team
- Partner with Security, Product, and Data Engineering leadership on platform decisions
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership managing managers
- Proven track record leading the consolidation or scaling of Cloud Engineering, SRE, and DevOps functions into a single, high-performing organization
- Deep, hands-on expertise running production workloads on AWS at scale across multiple accounts and regions
- Strong experience owning SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and on-call programs for high-traffic, real-time systems; live video or streaming infrastructure a strong plus
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), and modern CI/CD tooling
- Demonstrated success building or running a FinOps practice with measurable cloud cost optimization results
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as New Relic, CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar, plus modern logging and alerting pipelines
- Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, network segmentation, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and PCI DSS
- Excellent executive communication skills, including presenting infrastructure strategy, risk, and investment tradeoffs to the CTO and executive team
- Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure teams in a high-growth, fast-paced, consumer platform environment
- Strong business acumen, including budgets, vendor negotiations, staffing, and workforce planning
- BS in Computer Science or a related field required; MS preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from
- Dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Employee Emergency Fund
- Company equity (stock options)
- Open PTO policy
- 401K plan with company match
- Hybrid/flexible work environment