Cloud Reliability Engineer Versant · Englewood Cliffs · Site Reliability –ago

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

The Cloud Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of VERSANT’s cloud platforms and services.

This role works closely with cloud engineering, application development, networking, security, and operations teams to build andmaintainhighly reliable systems across a large multi-account AWS environment. The engineer willleverageautomation, observability, and reliability engineering practices to improve platform resilience, reduce operational risk, and enhance the customer experience.

As a leading media company, VERSANToperatesdigital products, streaming platforms, content delivery systems, and media workflows that demand high levelsof uptime and performance. The Cloud Reliability Engineer will help ensure these services remain resilient, scalable, and operationally mature.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS,monitoring and observability platforms, incident management, automation, infrastructure as code, and operational best practices. Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Identity Center, Terraform, and modern cloud operations tooling is highly desirable.

• Design, implement, andmaintainreliability practices for cloud infrastructure and platform services.

• Define andmonitorservice-level objectives(SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and operational metrics.

• Identify reliability risks and implement solutions that improve availability, scalability, and resilience.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on operational excellence and system stability.

• Design andmaintainmonitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions across AWS environments.

• Develop dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into platform health and performance.

• Analyze system behavior,identify bottlenecks, and implement performance improvements.

• Establish proactive monitoring practices that detect issues before they impact customers.

• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis activities.

• Lead post-incident reviews andidentifycorrective actions to prevent recurrence.

• Improve operational processes, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

• Support disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives.

• Support the reliability and operational health of large-scale AWS environmentsutilizingAWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Identity Center.

• Partner with cloud engineering teams to improve platform architecture, resiliency, and operational consistency.

• Assistinmaintainingsecure, scalable, andhighly available cloud services.

• Develop automation that reduces operational toil and improves system reliability.

• Support infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, Cloud Formation, and related technologies.

• Automate operational workflows, monitoring, remediation, and recovery activities.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation initiatives.

• Support the reliability of streaming platforms, content delivery systems, media workflows, APIs, and customer-facing applications.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve application reliability and operational readiness.

• Assistin capacity planning and scaling efforts for high-traffic events and media workloads.

• Partner with cloud, networking, security, and application teams toidentifyand address operational risks.

• Promote reliability engineering best practices throughout the organization.

• Contribute to documentation, standards, and operational procedures.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to platform reliability and observability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or…