DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer - AWS/Terraform/PHP - Remote

Location: Remote (US-based)
Reports to: CTO, SportsRecruits

SportsRecruits is the leading sports recruiting network, connecting athletes, clubs, events, and college coaches in the recruiting process. The company’s network and tools are trusted by sports organizations such as the IWLCA, IMLCA, NFHCA, and Junior Volleyball Association. Every year, millions of connections are made on the network, resulting in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions.

SportsRecruits is part of IMG Academy, the world's leading sports education brand. IMG Academy provides a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future, preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for all student-athletes through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:

• Boarding school and camps, via a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Fla.
• Online coaching via IMG Academy+, with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
• Online college recruiting, via NCSA and SportsRecruits, providing unmatched college recruiting education and services to student-athletes and their families, club coaches, and event operators, and is the premier service for college coaches.

SportsRecruits is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity and equal opportunity on our team. Just like the student-athletes we support, we are trying to get better and stronger as a team everyday. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We truly believe that the more inclusive our team is, the better we can serve all student-athletes, as well as their families and coaches, who are pursuing their dreams.

We are a product development team full of fun, intelligent, happy, and hardworking engineers, designers and product managers distributed across the United States. We are scaling our network and building innovative tools to empower student athletes, college coaches, and event operators. Our tools are built on top of technologies that span mobile and web applications, computer vision, and LLMs.
We’re looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. You will play a key role in ensuring that our systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable, while helping us improve developer productivity and application performance. You’ll collaborate closely with developers, QA, product, and our cloud security engineer to streamline builds and deployments, maintain application infrastructure, and proactively solve issues before they impact our users.

Our stack includes:

• Laravel + PHP8 backend APIs
• Vue.js (v2 and v3) + Inertia.js + Tailwind frontend
• React Native mobile applications
• Python for internal tools and ML/LLM-based features
• Infrastructure as code managed by Terraform
• AWS ECS Fargate, AWS RDS, AWS ECS, SQS, MediaConvert, and more
• Cloudflare DNS and workers

We emphasize performance, security, and maintainability—and we love solving problems that have real-world impact on student-athletes, coaches, and partners.

• CI/CD & Deployments
  • Configure, manage, and improve Bitbucket pipelines for deploying our applications to staging and production.
  • Improve CI pipeline speed, reliability, and security in collaboration with our Cloud Security Engineer.
  • Assist developers and QA teams with deployments.
  • Work with Docker and AWS ECR for container builds and deployment workflows.
• Monitoring & Incident Response
  • Review and investigate system issues flagged by Sentry, NewRelic, and CloudWatch.
  • Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions.
  • Respond to production and staging issues, including database latency, unresponsive resources, or failed jobs.
• Environment & Infrastructure Management
  • Maintain and support non-production environments used by developers and QA.
  • Maintain and improve AWS infrastructure and Terraform resources.
  • Perform updates and upgrades to AWS services as needed to ensure reliability and ability to scale.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
  • Partner with engineers to design systems that are scalable, observable, and resilient.
  • Work closely with our cloud security engineer to ensure secure configurations in CI/CD, AWS, and containerized workloads.
  • Contribute ideas and improvements to workflows, automation, and monitoring strategies.

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related engineering roles.
• Strong experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Experience configuring, debugging and deploying PHP applications 
• Hands-on experience with Docker and AWS ECR for container builds and deployments.
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.) and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Sentry, CloudWatch, or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging performance issues in databases, applications, and distributed systems.
• Experience with modern software development workflows (agile teams, code reviews, branching strategies).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
   

• Experience with ECS orchestration.
• Familiarity with PHP/Laravel or JavaScript/React/Vue applications.
• Previous experience supporting high-traffic SaaS platforms.
• Laravel, Vue, or TailwindCSS experience
• Familiarity with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, etc.)
• Experience working with 3rd-party APIs and async job queues (SQS, Redis)
• Knowledge of AI tooling, LLM integration, or computer vision

• Meaningful Work: Help shape a platform that impacts thousands of student-athletes’ futures.
• Modern Stack: Work with Laravel, Vue, React Native, Python, and AWS, backed by great tooling and infrastructure.
• Growth-Oriented Culture: We prioritize learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Remote Flexibility: We’re a distributed team with asynchronous workflows and clear communication practices.

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive salary: $100,000 – $140,000 per year
• Remote-first team culture
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited vacation policy