Sr Cloud Engineer

• Compensation: USD 180,000 - USD 200,000 - yearly

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.

The Senior Staff Engineer – Cloud is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining, designing, building, and evolving VERSANT’s cloud infrastructure and platforms. This engineer will serve as a technical authority for cloud infrastructure, helping establish architecture, engineering standards, and reusable patterns across the organization.

The role focuses primarily on AWS at enterprise scale, including multi-account environments, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Identity Center, networking, and shared cloud services. The Senior Staff Engineer will lead the design of complex cloud solutions, establish cloud engineering standards, and drive automation through infrastructure as code and reusable infrastructure patterns.

This role works across engineering teams and technology domains to solve complex infrastructure challenges and provide technical direction for strategic initiatives. The engineer will partner closely with application, infrastructure, network, security, and architecture teams and provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.

VERSANT operates a mix of legacy applications and modern cloud-native workloads, and this role will help define approaches for migrating, modernizing, and supporting these systems while ensuring consistent architecture and operational practices.

Strong knowledge of hybrid connectivity between on-premises data centers, third parties, and cloud environments is required, including cross-account resource sharing and networking. Experience with Azure and GCP is a strong plus as the organization evolves its broader cloud capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Technical Leadership

Serve as a senior technical authority for cloud infrastructure and architecture.

Define and drive cloud architecture, engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization.

Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions.

Lead technical and architecture reviews for significant cloud initiatives.

Provide technical leadership for initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams and technology domains.

Evaluate new cloud technologies and provide recommendations for adoption and standardization.

Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the organization.

Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily within AWS.

Architect environments across large multi-account AWS organizations using AWS Organizations and Control Tower.

Design secure and scalable cloud networking architectures, including VPC design, routing, transit networking, private connectivity, and shared services.

Develop reusable cloud architecture and infrastructure patterns that can be adopted across teams and environments.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

Establish standards and patterns for infrastructure as code using technologies such as Terraform and Cloud Formation.

Design and develop reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks.

Drive automation of environment provisioning, configuration, governance, and lifecycle management.

Identify opportunities to reduce manual operations and improve consistency through automation.

CI/CD & Platform Enablement

Define patterns for integrating cloud infrastructure provisioning into CI/CD and delivery workflows.

Establish reliable and repeatable approaches for infrastructure and…