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Arena Club is a fast-growing digital marketplace for collectibles founded by Derek Jeter and serial entrepreneur Brian Lee. The company has reinvented the hobby with digital card shows and products like 'Slab Pack,' which brings the mystery of opening physical card packs to digital format. Arena Club is one of the fastest-growing and highly profitable companies in Los Angeles.
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational tooling that support Arena Club's platform. You will own critical components of the cloud and delivery environment, ensuring systems are secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient. This role is designed for engineers who operate independently, deliver high-quality solutions, and proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for web, backend, and mobile applications
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters for high availability, performance, and scalability in production
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform across AWS
- Design and implement secure, scalable, cost-effective cloud architecture leveraging AWS services
- Develop automation scripts and internal tooling to reduce manual work and improve operational efficiency
- Establish and maintain advanced monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices using DataDog, CloudWatch, and Cloudflare
- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term reliability improvements
- Identify infrastructure risks, performance bottlenecks, and technical debt, and drive proactive remediation
- Partner closely with development teams to improve deployment workflows, system observability, and operational readiness
- Promote DevOps best practices and reliability standards across the Engineering team
- Document infrastructure architecture, operational procedures, and system dependencies
Required qualifications: 6+ years of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering experience. Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS production environments, managing Kubernetes clusters at scale, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions in production systems. Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Bash, or similar). Strong understanding of cloud networking, security best practices, and system reliability principles. Ability to independently own infrastructure initiatives from design through implementation and operation. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to communicate technical risks and operational impacts effectively. Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment while maintaining system stability.
Preferred qualifications include experience supporting high-growth or high-availability production environments, cost optimization and performance tuning in AWS, driving incident management and on-call practices, and mentoring engineers or influencing DevOps culture.
