Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Description

VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment - home to iconic and trusted brands that inspire, inform, and delight audiences. Our unique combination of content, technology and services enriches the cultural fabric, igniting passions, sparking conversations, and connecting people to what they love most.

As an independent, publicly traded company, VERSANT brings together powerhouse cable networks - including USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Golf Channel - with dynamic digital and direct-to-consumer brands such as Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now, Golf Pass, and Sports Engine. Together, these businesses reflect our commitment to delivering exceptional experiences across every screen and service.

VERSANT is an industry-changing media company fueled by innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. With a strong foundation and a forward‑looking vision, VERSANT empowers creativity, embraces change, and drives connection in an ever‑evolving world.

Golf Now is seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to lead the modernisation, scalability, and reliability of our infrastructure across development and production environments. In this role, you’ll report to the Director of Dev Ops – International and work closely with software engineers, product managers, and support teams to evolve our cloud‑first Dev Ops practice.

You will lead critical projects involving migration of legacy systems to AWS, design and optimise deployment pipelines, improve observability and incident response, and drive process alignment across teams and platforms. This is a hands‑on leadership role ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing architecture, and mentoring others while building robust and maintainable systems at scale.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure in AWS
• Lead or contribute to migration projects, helping move legacy, customer hosted systems into cloud‑native architectures
• Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform
• Guide improvements to system architecture, focusing on reliability, observability, and cost‑efficiency
• Contribute to modernising our CI/CD practices, enabling safe, rapid delivery of services across environments.
• Improve operational visibility through monitoring, logging, and tracing, and support incident response efforts
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and design reviews
• Help align Dev Ops tooling and processes across Versant, promoting platform consistency and best practices

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field – or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or platform engineering roles, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed architectures
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Cloud Watch)
• Proficiency in infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Experience designing and building resilient systems that can scale across multiple environments and tenants
• Experience running and operating containerised workloads in production (e.g., Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and experience integrating automation into team workflows
• Strong scripting or programming skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Go)
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across teams and disciplines

• Experience managing Java application environments, including JVM tuning and build systems
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation
• Knowledge of Cloudflare and its role in DNS, security, and CDN layers
• Familiarity with Postgre
  
  SQL or MySQL in production environments
• Experience leading or participating in cloud migration efforts
• Exposure to multi‑tenant SaaS architectures
• Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, ELK)
• Knowledge of modern networking…