About IMG Academy
IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future while preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy has been nationally recognized by organizations including Sports Business Journal, USA Today, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for its workplace culture, innovation, and commitment to developing people both on and off the field.
IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for student-athletes and partners through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:
- Boarding school and camps, delivered on a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Florida
- Online coaching through IMG Academy+, focused on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
- Online college recruiting through NCSA College Recruiting and SportsRecruits, providing industry-leading recruiting education, tools, and access to a network of more than 40,000 college coaches for student-athletes, families, club coaches, and event operators
- Elevate by IMG Academy, a performance and personal development solution that delivers mindset, leadership, and wellbeing programming to schools, colleges, and organizations through a combination of digital content and immersive experiences
Position Summary:
Position Responsibilities:
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.
- Leverage AI to automate monitoring and diagnosis.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 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.
- Interest in leveraging AI agents to automate monitoring and diagnosis workflows
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Background Requirements:
- Requires a background check upon offer
- Requires a drug test upon offer
As a full-time member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive offering listed below. Connect with your talent acquisition specialist to learn more about benefits for our part-time and seasonal/temporary roles.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
- 401k with an Employer Match
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
- Gym Discount Program
- Pet Insurance
- Wellbeing Program
- and more!
Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Get to know us better:
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www.imgacademy.com/careers
IMG Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related engineering roles
- Strong experience configuring CI/CD pipelines, including 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 such as EC2, RDS, ECS, and Lambda
- Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Sentry, and CloudWatch
- Strong troubleshooting skills for database, application, and distributed-system performance issues
- Experience with modern software development workflows, including agile teams, code reviews, and branching strategies
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, or similar
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- Interest in leveraging AI agents to automate monitoring and diagnosis workflows
What We Do
IMG Academy is the world-leading provider of academic, athletic and personal development programs. With expert instruction, a proven training methodology, professional-grade facilities and a challenging and motivating learning environment that brings together individuals of all ages and backgrounds, IMG Academy provides the ultimate foundation for future success. The Bradenton, Fla.-based campus annually attracts nearly 200,000 training athletes, coaches, event participants and spectators from 100 countries. IMG Academy offers sports camps and academy programs, in addition to training opportunities for adult, collegiate and professional athletes, as well as teams and leagues. IMG Academy is also the host venue for countless international amateur and professional sporting events. IMG Academy also includes NCSA College Recruiting, the world's largest college recruiting platform, and IMG Academy+, which provides online coaching utilizing the same elite instruction delivered on campus for 40+ years.
