Senior Engineer, Platform – (Infrastructure, Compute & Networking)

Job Description

Overview 

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics’ mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Platform Engineer III (Infrastructure, Compute & Networking) role empowers our engineering teams by delivering rock‑solid cloud foundations. Joining our OddsFactory division, you’ll focus on Azure best practices, networking, cluster/compute operations, and secure connectivity

OddsFactory powers in‑play features at massive scale (billions of simulations/month). Today we run Windows services on Service Fabric in Azure; we’re accelerating Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD) and exploring dual‑cloud opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provision and operate compute foundations: VM Scale Sets, Service Fabric clusters (Windows nodes), and Kubernetes clusters (Windows/Linux node pools), including upgrades, node image/patching, and custom autoscaling solutions
• Implement secure‑by‑default and Zero Trust patterns across network and runtime (segmentation, least privilege, workload identity/OIDC, egress controls, policy‑as‑code).
• Build reusable IaC modules and guardrails (RBAC, Azure Policy) that standardize landing zones and paved paths for product teams.
• Collaborate with application/platform teams on connectivity patterns (service endpoints, private access, ingress/egress), documentation, and enablement.
• Establish SLOs and deep observability for infra/network (Datadog), including metrics, traces, logs, flow logs, dashboards, alerts, and actionable runbooks.
• Partner with teams to onboard to golden paths; provide enablement, examples, and reference implementations.
• Contribute to capacity planning, cost optimization (FinOps), and operational readiness.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents.
• Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure roles operating Azure production environments.
• Hands‑on expertise in Azure networking and security services (VNets, routing, NSGs/ASGs, Firewall, WAF/AGW, Private Link/Endpoints, DNS, load balancing).
• Operations experience with Service Fabric and/or Kubernetes cluster administration in production.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; Terragrunt preferred; ARM/CloudFormation a plus).
• Proficiency with programming/scripting (PowerShell & .NET preferred; familiarity with Go or Python is a bonus).
• Experience with observability (e.g., Datadog), chaos testing, and incident management.
• Strong problem‑solving and collaboration skills; comfortable partnering across international teams.
• Outcome‑oriented and data‑driven; balance reliability, security, and delivery speed.
• Effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across diverse teams.
• Positive, flexible attitude comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Resilience & Continuity: Multi‑AZ/region architectures; automated failover; defined RTO/RPO with regular DR/chaos exercises and recovery runbooks.
• Traffic & Policy Plane: Service mesh awareness (mTLS, policy) and edge/CDN/WAF patterns; Cloudflare integrations (WAF, Workers/Queues, Access/Zero Trust, CDN).
• Packaging & Delivery: Helm and/or kustomize for cluster add‑ons; Argo CD progressive delivery; multi‑cluster promotion; app‑of‑apps patterns.
• Secrets & Identity: External Secrets patterns; Azure Key Vault/AWS KMS; workload identity/OIDC; least‑privilege RBAC; policy‑as‑code (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno).
• Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports.
• Experience supporting scalable, real-time, or event-driven systems.
• Experience in fast-paced or start-up environments.