VP, Cloud Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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PlayOn! Sports

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201 - 500 employees

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $26M Series D on 2013-07

Marketing • Logistics • Consulting

PlayOn! Sports is a company specializing in providing digital solutions for high school athletics and activities. They offer a comprehensive platform that integrates athletic management, digital ticketing, broadcasting and streaming, concessions, sponsorships, fundraisers, and athletic websites. Their brands include GoFan, the NFHS Network, and rSchoolToday, which collectively serve thousands of schools with over 500,000 events annually. PlayOn! Sports aims to enhance community engagement and ease administrative tasks for schools by offering tools like digital payment options, event streaming, and activity management. They play a significant role in connecting fans and communities through digital engagement with local school events.

📋 Description

• Unify Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps into one cohesive organization with clear charters, on-call ownership, and career paths • Own availability and performance for live-streaming and ticketing platforms during peak concurrent loads • Build and run a FinOps practice providing visibility into AWS spend and improving cost-per-stream and cost-per-event efficiency • Deliver a self-service internal developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes • Mature incident management, on-call, and postmortem practices to reduce MTTD, MTTR, and customer-impacting incidents • Partner with Security to align infrastructure controls with SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS requirements • Translate business goals into cloud infrastructure and reliability strategy as a technology leadership team member • Own cloud architecture across AWS accounts and regions for NFHS Network, GoFan, MaxPreps, and PlayOn HQ • Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; own incident command for major incidents • Drive Terraform, golden-path provisioning and deployment, CI/CD strategy, and deployment standards • Lead FinOps, including cost visibility, showback/chargeback, reserved capacity planning, and budget forecasting • Own observability using New Relic, CloudWatch, and related tooling • Plan capacity for playoffs, championships, and other high-traffic sporting events • Recruit, mentor, and lead cloud engineering, SRE, and DevOps managers and senior engineers • Define infrastructure KPIs and report to the CTO and executive team • Partner with Security, Product, and Data Engineering leadership on platform decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership managing managers • Proven track record leading the consolidation or scaling of Cloud Engineering, SRE, and DevOps functions into a single, high-performing organization • Deep, hands-on expertise running production workloads on AWS at scale across multiple accounts and regions • Strong experience owning SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and on-call programs for high-traffic, real-time systems; live video or streaming infrastructure a strong plus • Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), and modern CI/CD tooling • Demonstrated success building or running a FinOps practice with measurable cloud cost optimization results • Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as New Relic, CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar, plus modern logging and alerting pipelines • Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, network segmentation, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and PCI DSS • Excellent executive communication skills, including presenting infrastructure strategy, risk, and investment tradeoffs to the CTO and executive team • Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure teams in a high-growth, fast-paced, consumer platform environment • Strong business acumen, including budgets, vendor negotiations, staffing, and workforce planning • BS in Computer Science or a related field required; MS preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from • Dental, vision, life and disability insurance • Employee Emergency Fund • Company equity (stock options) • Open PTO policy • 401K plan with company match • Hybrid/flexible work environment

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