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Tennis Channel · 1 week ago

Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $170K/yr

5+ years exp

Tennis Channel is rebuilding its digital experience and is seeking a Senior AWS Platform / DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and operate their new streaming platform. The role involves managing AWS infrastructure, implementing automation, and ensuring security best practices while collaborating with a senior development team.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

AWS cloud infrastructureInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesAWS security best practicesAmazon RDSCore AWS servicesObservability toolsScripting languagesHeadless CMSStreaming videoAnalytics pipelinesAWS certificationsCommunication skillsDocumentation skillsWork independently

Required

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

Preferred

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)

Benefits

Participation in a retirement plan

Life and disability insurance

Health, dental and vision plans

Flexible spending accounts

Sick leave

Vacation time

Personal time

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Company

Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel (www.tennischannel.com), which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, is the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle.

Founded in 2001

Santa Monica, California, USA

51-200 employees