Director - DevOps
Job Summary
Job Description
As Director of DevOps at FanCode, you'll lead the Core Infra team, shaping its vision, strategy, and execution. Key responsibilities include developing and executing the DevOps strategy, overseeing cloud architecture deployment using IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible), designing tools for service-oriented architecture, leading compute orchestration platform development using EC2 and GCE, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. You'll also champion best practices for security, implement monitoring solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. The role requires hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
Must have:
- Develop and execute DevOps strategy
- Oversee cloud architecture deployment
- Lead compute orchestration platform development
- Implement CI/CD pipelines
- Champion security best practices
15 skills required
Job Details
FanCode is India’s premier sports destination committed to giving fans a highly personalised experience across content and merchandise for a wide variety of sports. Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode has over 100 million users. It has partnered with domestic, international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports.
In content, FanCode offers interactive live streaming for sports with industry-first subscription formats like Match, Bundle and Tour Passes, along with monthly and annual subscriptions at affordable prices.
Through FanCode Shop, it also offers fans a wide range of sports merchandise for sporting teams, brands and leagues across the world.
Technology @ FanCode
We have one mission: Create a platform for all sports fans. Built by sports fans for sports fans, we cover Sports Live Video Streaming, Live Scores & Commentary, Video On Demand, Player Analytics, Fantasy Research, News, and e-Commerce. We’re at the beginning of our story and growing at an incredible pace.
Our tech stack is hosted on AWS and GCP, leveraging Amazon EC2, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, Google Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, and Google Cloud Storage. We use a microservices-based architecture built on Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch to serve product features. Our data-driven team utilizes Python and other big data technologies for Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics, along with Kafka, Spark, Redshift, and BigQuery to keep improving FanCode's performance.
Your Role
- As the Director of DevOps at FanCode, you will lead and shape the vision, strategy, and execution of our Core Infra team.
- This team is responsible for maintaining a stable, secure, and scalable environment that empowers our talented developers to innovate and deliver exceptional experiences to sports fans globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the DevOps strategy, ensuring alignment with FanCode's overall business objectives.
- Shape and communicate the vision for cloud-native infrastructure, driving scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Mentor and lead the DevOps team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Oversee the deployment of resilient Cloud Architectures using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Design and implement tools for service-oriented architecture, including service discovery, config management, and container orchestration.
- Lead the development of a Compute Orchestration Platform using EC2 and GCE, driving automation and self-service infrastructure.
- Be hands-on with Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), container orchestration, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Strategize and implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Github Actions to optimize deployment workflows.
- Champion best practices for networking and security at scale, ensuring compliance and data integrity.
- Implement monitoring solutions using DataDog, NewRelic, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus/Grafana for proactive performance management.
- Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Product, and Data Science teams to streamline product development and release cycles.
- Promote knowledge sharing and infrastructure best practices across all technical teams, ensuring consistent standards.
- Stay abreast of the latest DevOps trends and technologies, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Evaluate and recommend cutting-edge tools and practices to enhance FanCode's infrastructure and processes.
Strategic Leadership:
Infrastructure and Automation:
CI/CD, Performance, and Security:
Collaboration and Cross-Functional Alignment:
Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier digital sports platform that personalizes content and commerce for all sports fans, DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform, and DreamPay, a payment solutions provider. It has founded the Dream Sports Foundation to help and champion sportspeople and is an active member of the Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports, the nodal body for the Fantasy Sports industry in India.
Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports is always working on its mission to ‘Make Sports Better’ and is located in Mumbai. Dream Sports has been featured as a ‘Great Places to Work’ by the Great Place to Work Institute for four consecutive years. It is also the only sports tech company among India’s best companies to work for in 2021.
For more information: https://dreamsports.group/
About FanCode:
FanCode is India’s premier digital sports destination committed to giving all fans a highly personalized experience across Content, Community, and Commerce.
Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode offers interactive live streaming, sports fan merchandise (FanCode Shop), fast interactive live match scores, in-depth live commentary, fantasy sports data and statistics (Fantasy Research Hub), expert fantasy tips, sports news and much more.
FanCode has partnered with both domestic and international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports such as three of the top American Leagues - MLB, NFL, and NBA, FIVB, West Indies Cricket Board, Bangladesh Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Bundesliga, and I-League.
Dream Sports India’s leading Sports Technology company is the parent company of FanCode with brands such as Dream11 also in its portfolio.
FanCode has already amassed over 2 crore+ app installs and won the “Best Sports Startup” award at FICCI India Sports Awards 2019.
Website: www.fancode.com
FanCode Shop: www.shop.fancode.com
Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with 250 million users, housing brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, India’s digital sports destination, and DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform.
Dream Sports is based in Mumbai and has a workforce of close to 1,000 ‘Sportans’. Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports’ vision is to ‘Make Sports Better’ for fans through the confluence of sports and technology.
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About The Company
Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with 20 crore users, housing brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier sports content & commerce platform, DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform and DreamPay, a payment solutions provider. Dream Sports is based in Mumbai and has a workforce of close to 1,000 ‘Sportans’.
Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports’ mission is to ‘Make Sports Better’ for fans through the confluence of sports and technology. Since 2018, Dream Sports has been consistently featured as the only sports tech company in the ‘Great Places to Work’ survey.
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