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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Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email us at accommodations@mlb.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!

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