Sr. Platform Ops Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLEFandango is looking for a SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER to build our next big thing in platform growth across Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango at Home.In this role, you'll join the Platform Operations team and report to the Sr. Director of Platform Operations, contributing to the foundational infrastructure and tools that power how we enable developer productivity while delivering platform enhancements. As a Platform Engineer, you will focus on building and maintaining the core platform layers that support our engineering organization.If you enjoy solving complex problems, building for scale, and making a measurable impact – we'd love to meet you.WHAT YOU'LL DOAs a Senior Platform Engineer on our team, you will:Build and maintain core platform infrastructure that serves as the foundation for engineering teams across the organizationDrive and participate in solution architecture and delivery across diverse domains, offering expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and resources, containers (ECS/Kubernetes) and cloud-native architecturesDevelop, enhance, and operate platform capabilities including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, reusable patterns, and automation solutions that enable rapid, reliable, and secure deploymentsDesign and implement standardized, reusable cloud infrastructure patterns and templates that help teams adopt best practices while maintaining security and compliance requirementsDemonstrate, enable, and promote consistent adoption of software delivery practices and solutions that optimize for fast feedback, observability, and operational excellenceProactively collaborate with product and engineering teams, taking technical leadership in areas of cross-functional projects while sharing knowledge and best practicesEvaluate existing standards and practices, identify gaps, and implement improvements to strengthen Development, Security, and Operational practices across the organizationDemonstrate excellent communication skills through proactive status updates, clear documentation, knowledge sharing, and effective collaboration when facing technical challengesPartner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs, refine requirements, and deliver solutions that enhance developer productivity while meeting project objectivesWork with emerging technologies around AI, MCP, and RAGCostoptimization - Monitor and optimize cloud spend, implementing cost governance strategies and right-sizing recommendations.Servicereliability Maintain SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, improve uptime targets, and help implement reliability engineering practices.Mentorship - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the platform team.WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:AWS Expertise: 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with a focus on Infrastructure as CodeLinux Proficiency: Minimum of 4 years of experience managing and maintaining Linux systemsAutomation/Scripting: 3+ years of experience with Python for automation and scriptingGit and GitOps: Practical experience and comfortable using Git and automated workflowsAWS Security Knowledge: Familiarity with AWS security best practices, including DNS, secure VPCs, and database security (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)Communication & Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiencesProblem-Solving Mindset: Eagerness to learn, grow, and tackle challenges in a fast-paced environmentTroubleshooting&debugging - Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues across networking, compute, storage, and application layers. Comfortable with packet captures, log analysis, performance profiling, and diagnosing intermittent failures in production.\Terraform / Infrastructure as Code: 3+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, and multi-environment workflows. Comfortable writing, reviewing, and maintaining IaC that provisions and manages cloud infrastructure at scale.Networkingfundamentals — VPCs, load balancers, DNS, CDNs, service mesh, network troubleshooting.Monitoring/Observability — Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK stacks.Incidentmanagementexperience — PagerDuty, on-call rotations, post-mortem culture.BONUS POINTS FOR:AWS Certifications: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateBackground in building or maintaining systems that support scalable application environments and event-driven architecturesUnderstanding of container security and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)Fundamentals of running AI-related servicesExperience contributing to open-source projects or internal platform toolsMulti-account AWS strategy (Organizations, Control Tower, Landing ZonesChaos engineering / game daysPlatform-as-a-product thinking (internal developer portals, Backstage)As part of our selection pro