Sprocket Sports · 1 week ago
Site Reliability (Azure) Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$100K/yr - $175K/yr
3+ years expSprocket Sports is a fast-growing technology company based in Chicago, leading in the youth sports space. They are seeking an Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security for users.
Information TechnologySaaSSports
Responsibilities
Ownership of site uptime, reliability and incident response
Ongoing monitoring of application and system performance using Azure and DataDog to detect and diagnose issues before they impact users
Identify and respond when platform services are unhealthy, including: Azure App Services (diagnostics, scaling, restarts), Azure SQL Database (blocking, deadlocks, Query Store, DMVs), Azure Redis Cache (timeouts, eviction, failover), Azure Front Door (health probes, routing, WAF)
Review system logs, metrics, and tracing data to identify areas of concern, bottlenecks, and opportunities for performance tuning
Lead efforts to conduct load testing and performance testing on the system
Review and optimize SQL performance by analyzing query plans, identifying slow-running queries, and recommending improvements (indexing, schema changes, stored procedures)
Manage and monitor our Azure SQL Database resources for optimal health and throughput
Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical infrastructure incidents and drive root cause analysis (RCA)
Manage, provision, and maintain our complete suite of Azure resources (e.g., App Services, Azure Functions, AKS, VMs)
Proactively manage and reduce cloud costs by identifying and implementing efficiencies in resource utilization and recommending right-sizing strategies
Ensure security best practices are implemented across all Azure services, including network segmentation, access control (IAM), and patching
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM, Bicep, or Terraform) to maintain consistent, auditable deployments
Work closely with the development team to automate and streamline deployment pipelines (CI/CD) using Azure DevOps, ensuring fast and reliable releases
Implement and manage configuration for applications and infrastructure
Manage DNS record updates for custom domain transitions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field
3+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure
Deep hands-on experience with core Azure services and strong networking fundamentals
Solid experience with monitoring and observability platforms, specifically DataDog
Scripting proficiency in PowerShell
Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize relational database performance (SQL/T-SQL)
Strong problem-solving skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to analytically defend design decisions and take feedback without ego
Strong attention to detail and accountability
Benefits
401(k) with company match
Comprehensive medical and dental
Company
Sprocket Sports
Our comprehensive platform for registration, administration, and marketing will help your youth sports club thrive.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Frontier Growth
2025-11-19Series A
Leadership Team
Richard Gallun
Co-Founder and CEO
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