Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

We are rebuilding Tennis Channel's digital experience from the ground up - mobile apps, TV apps, content management, analytics, monitoring, and eventually live and VOD video delivery. AWS will be our core cloud platform.

We're looking for an experienced Senior AWS Platform / DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and operate the backbone of our new streaming platform. You will own our AWS environment end-to-end: infrastructure, automation, observability, and security.

As our first DevOps hire, you'll work directly with the Head of Engineering (ex-Amazon, ex-Prime Video) and a small, senior development team. This is a hands-on role where you'll set up environments, implement automation, enforce security best practices, and establish standards that future engineers will follow. Along the way, you'll help build a greenfield streaming platform with no legacy constraints, while making infrastructure decisions that will power experiences for millions of fans worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with proven leaders, shape the foundation of a new digital ecosystem, and play a pivotal role in the relaunch of Tennis Channel's direct-to-consumer business.

This role is based in Seattle.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure & Automation

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure: API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL & MySQL/Aurora), DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, WAF, and Kinesis.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK (preferred) or Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline).

• Configure IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access.
• Implement and monitor CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF.
• Enforce tagging, cost controls, and guardrails across environments.

• Set up CloudWatch metrics, dashboards, and alarms.
• Implement distributed tracing (AWS X-Ray) and log analytics (OpenSearch or equivalent).
• Create synthetic canaries to validate key user flows (login, playback, API health).
• Establish backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Implement data ingestion pipelines (e.g., Kinesis Firehose → S3 → Athena).
• Deliver product dashboards with QuickSight or equivalent.

• Extend infrastructure into AWS Media Services (MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConvert, MediaTailor) for live and VOD streaming.
• Support secure, global video delivery through CloudFront and related services.

• 5+ years of professional experience in AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps
• Hands-on experience with Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL & MySQL) in production: deployment, performance tuning, backups, upgrades, and security
• Strong background with core AWS services: API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, WAF, ElastiCache
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK strongly preferred; Terraform/CloudFormation acceptable with willingness to switch)
• Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or Jenkins)
• Strong grasp of IAM, VPC networking, and AWS security best practices
• Experience with observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, logging pipelines, and alerting
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Strong communication and documentation skills; able to work independently in a small, fast-moving team

• Experience deploying and scaling a headless CMS (Strapi, Contentful, Sanity, etc.)
• Familiarity with streaming video architectures
• Knowledge of analytics pipelines (Kinesis, Athena, QuickSight)
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps, DevOps Engineer)