Senior Cloud Engineer, Fandom

• 5+ years of experience in Technical/Network Operations, DevOps, or SRE roles managing large-scale production platforms (e.g., 10M+ monthly active users)
• Deep proficiency in Linux systems administration, networking protocols (TCP/IP, routing), secure systems practices, and scripting/programming (Go, Python, or Bash)
• Proven hands-on experience with core infrastructure tech: Kubernetes/container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and monitoring/reliability systems (e.g., Prometheus)
• Practical experience managing production MySQL database environments, including deep familiarity with replication topologies, failover mechanisms, and performance tuning
• Demonstrated capability using generative AI tools (e.g., Gemini, NotebookLM) to enhance productivity, paired with the ability to critically audit and verify outputs for accuracy, security, and context

Desirable

• As part of the TechOps team, you’ll report to the Manager of TechOps and work closely with developers, product engineers, and other infrastructure teams. You’ll contribute to our CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and cloud efforts — helping ensure Fandom’s platform remains fast, stable, and secure as we grow
• This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving deployment systems, and enabling engineering teams to move faster and safer
• Design, architect, and scale high-availability routing architectures to seamlessly balance and secure global user traffic across a hybrid footprint of on-premise datacenters, AWS, and GCP
• Manage and automate cloud and edge infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and Chef, ensuring consistent configurations for Kubernetes, global Cloudflare services, and CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain and optimize large-scale production environments, orchestrating high-availability MySQL replication, automated failover, robust disaster recovery, and system monitoring
• Develop internal tools for operational automation, system/data backups, performance tuning, and comprehensive security monitoring
• Drive operational excellence by leading planning meetings, retrospectives, and RCAs, while continuously evaluating systems against industry best practices
• Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain production stability, handle incident responses, and collaborate with/mentor cross-functional engineering teams