Cloud Networking Engineering Manager

ABOUT FANDUEL

Fan Duel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. Fan Duel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including:
America’s #1 Sports book, Fan Duel Sports book; its leading iGaming platform, Fan Duel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, Fan Duel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, Fan Duel Group operates Fan Duel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and Fan Duel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. Fan Duel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

Fan Duel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to help lead our Cloud Networking engineering team in our Foundational Infrastructure organization. The Cloud Networking team works to create a scalable and reliable Network layer to support Fan Duel’s large-scale complex network architecture across several dozen deployment locations under unique geographic and regulatory constraints.

You will have established Network Engineer capabilities. You’re excited to learn how to develop and grow Engineers. You’ll be responsible for providing outstanding employee experience tailored to your line report’s individual needs. You’ll be responsible for leading smaller projects or features within a team. If you’re interested in developing core leadership skills both from a technical and people management point of view and having an experienced mentor help guide you, then apply today!

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Manage and lead the Cloud Networking team which supports the development of performant and reliable networks across Fan Duel.
• Lead conversations to remove blockers and foster collaboration across teams
• Collaborate with security, Dev Ops, and application teams to ensure reliable connectivity, performance monitoring, and traffic segmentation.
• Collaborate with various cross-functional software engineering teams to enhance and unify our overarching engineering culture.
• Translate overarching strategic goals into actionable and detailed plans that can be readily implemented by engineers.
• Demonstrate technical leadership across the organization.
• Shape and enact standards and baselines for uplifting engineering across Fan Duel.

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of cloud network engineers responsible for designing and operating virtual and hybrid cloud networks.
• Supervise the design and help maintain highly available, secure, and scalable large network architectures across multiple cloud providers (e.g. automated provisioning of network devices, experience with cloud networking technologies such as TGW, GWLB, AWS Network Firewall, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect).
• Oversee implementation of network and Infrastructure a utomation using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation).
• Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, preferably AWS with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
• Drive cost optimization strategies and network observability improvements through tooling and telemetry.
• Manage incident response and root cause analysis for network-related issues across production environments.
• Transform strategic objectives into actionable programs of work, empowering engineers to execute effectively and drive successful outcomes
• Profic…