Major League Baseball is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for our Web Platform Architecture team. This team is responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers our entire suite of web applications that power MLB.com. The team's responsibilities cover CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and ensuring the reliability and security of all our services that support millions of users.
You will play a pivotal role in shaping the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our digital platforms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional, results-oriented teams to design, implement, and optimize the infrastructure and automation that enhance security, performance, and developer experience across our websites and services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and management of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and business requirements
- Architect, maintain, and optimize our cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system performance, reliability, observability, and security posture
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to software engineering teams, fostering a culture of DevOps, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Automate manual processes to improve engineering team velocity and system reliability
Collaboration
- Participate in an agile environment
- Participate in the full software development life cycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, and maintenance)
- Proactively seek constructive criticism of your own work and offer constructive feedback to others in a way that raises people up and builds relationships
- Participate in and lead triage efforts during production incidents, including managing on-call rotations and post-mortems
Technology Leadership
- Lead and take ownership of critical infrastructure features and your own initiatives
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards related to cloud infrastructure, automation, and security
- Mentor and coach engineers in your team and across the organization to build a strong engineering-focused culture
- Influence the way that baseball is consumed by millions of users worldwide
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of industry experience with a focus on DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, and Application development
- Expertise in designing and implementing CI/CD solutions (e.g., Github Actions, Tekton)
- Deep experience with cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
- Experience with at least one major Cloud platform (Google Cloud, AWS, or similar)
- Experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare and Fastly
- Deep experience with proxy technologies such as HAProxy or Nginx
- Experience using Edge compute or Cloud functions using JavaScript or TypeScript (Cloudflare workers, Fastly Compute@Edge)
- Strong background in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional certification in a major cloud platform (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer)
- Experience with Google Cloud
- Experience with HAProxy
- Experience with Fastly
- Experience with Node.js as a full stack JavaScript framework for application development
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- Experience contributing to open source projects
- A baseball fan or sports enthusiast
Salary Range: $150,000 - $185,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.
Top MLB Perks & Benefits:
- 100% Employer Paid Medical/Dental/Vision Premiums
- Company Contributed 401K Plan
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
- Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Why MLB?
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.
MLB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!
