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Salary: USD 140,000 - 180,000 / annual
Arena Club is building a digital marketplace for collectibles, founded by Derek Jeter and serial entrepreneur Brian Lee (founder of LegalZoom and The Honest Company). The company has reinvented the collectibles hobby with digital card shows and products like 'Slab Pack,' and is one of the fastest-growing and highly profitable companies in Los Angeles.
You will design, build, and operate the infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational tooling that support Arena Club's platform. This is an independent contributor role where you will own critical components of the cloud and delivery environment, ensuring systems are secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient. You will drive infrastructure and automation initiatives end-to-end, improving system performance, deployment velocity, and developer productivity.
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, reliability standards, and operational ownership across the Engineering team
- Document infrastructure architecture, operational procedures, and system dependencies
Tech stack includes AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, ECR), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions/CircleCI, AWS SSM/Secrets Manager, DataDog, Sentry, Cloudflare, and scripting in Python/Bash.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering roles
- Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS production environments
- Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools such as 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, trade-offs, and operational impacts effectively
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment while maintaining system stability and high operational standards
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience supporting high-growth or high-availability production environments
- Experience with cost optimization and performance tuning in AWS
- Experience driving incident management, on-call practices, or reliability improvements
- Experience mentoring engineers or influencing DevOps culture across teams
