SDE 2 DevOps Engineer

Role Overview: SDE 2 DevOps Engineer at FanCode

FanCode is India’s premier digital sports destination, dedicated to delivering a best-in-class experience for fans across live and non-live sports. With over 160 million users, FanCode features a wide array of global and domestic sporting leagues, offering interactive live streaming through flexible subscription models. FanCode is a brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company, which also powers Dream11 and DreamSetGo.

Technology at FanCode focuses on creating a comprehensive platform for sports fans, covering Live Video Streaming, Live Scores & Commentary, Video On Demand, Player Analytics, Fantasy Research, and News.

Our tech stack is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and leverages GKE, GCS, Cloud Run, and MediaCDN. We operate a microservices-based architecture built with Java, Node.js, Python, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. As a data-driven team, we utilize Python and big data technologies like Kafka, Spark, and Redshift for Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics, constantly improving FanCode's performance.

Core Infrastructure Engineering Team

You will join the Core Infra Engineering Team, responsible for maintaining a fresh, stable, and secure environment. This team builds a robust foundation, shares infrastructure knowledge across other teams, and promotes best practices in:

• Continuous Delivery
• Containerisation & Orchestration
• Automation
• Networking
• Security
• Observability

What you’ll do:

• Design and deploy a resilient Cloud Architecture using Infrastructure as Code automation tools.
• Design and implement services and tools to manage and scale a service-oriented architecture (e.g., service discovery, config managers, container orchestration, and more).
• Build self-serve infrastructure automation and optimize deployment workflows at scale.
• Build and maintain a Containers Orchestration Platform on GCP Cloud Infrastructure.
• Develop and support tools for infrastructure, and evangelize best practices to be used by other engineers.
• Write Code to implement networking and security at scale.
• Mentoring/supporting engineers regarding development, concepts, and best practices.

Must-haves:

• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps or Platform Engineer.
• Experience with GCP Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure Automation Tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with Linux & Networking in Production Clusters.
• Experience with Docker & Container Orchestration (e.g., GKE, Helm, ArgoCD).
• Experience with SDLC, SCM, CI/CD Pipelines, Build and Release (e.g., GitHub Actions, MVN, NPM).
• Experience with Observability Platforms (e.g. New Relic).

Good to have:

• Good Understanding of Microservice Design patterns and Distributed Architecture.
• Experience with Database Administration (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka).
• Experience with CDN and Caching Technologies (e.g GCP MediaCDN, Redis).
• Experience with coding in at least one higher-level language (e.g., Python or GoLang).
• Experience working on Multi Cloud Setup (AWS/Azure).
• Experience on designing and operating AI Platforms.
• Industry Leading Certifications such as CKA, GCP Cloud Architecture, CKAD, etc.
• Good understanding of Data Engineering Technologies.
• Good understanding of Cloud Security Best Practices.
• Good understanding on FinOps, AIOps, MLOps.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Microservices
• Cloud Security
• Container Orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code
• Observability