The Crown Is Yours
As a Lead NetOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and evolving our network infrastructure, partnering with teams across the organization to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable network solutions. You'll help shape the future of our infrastructure through automation, cloud networking, and technical leadership while driving the evolution of the systems that power our industry-leading platform.
What You'll Do
- Design and lead complex network solutions across data centers, remote sites, and hybrid cloud environments, including AWS, GCP, advanced firewall, routing, switching, VPN, and BGP technologies.
- Implement advanced Infrastructure as Code patterns, including remote state, modules, and workspaces.
- Design automation and Infrastructure as Code solutions for multi-vendor network platforms, including FortiGate, Aruba, and Juniper.
- Triage, debug, and resolve complex production issues while driving a culture of accountability and operational excellence.
- Act as a technical mentor and coach, providing guidance and feedback that helps engineers grow and deliver their best work.
- Play a critical role in shaping the team's technical roadmap and engineering direction while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
- Join the on-call rotation, taking ownership of incident resolution and providing senior-level escalation support for critical outages.
- Maintain the health, performance, and security of our global infrastructure across hybrid environments using observability tools such as Datadog.
What You'll Bring
- At least 5 years of network administration experience with routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and routing and switching protocols.
- At least 3 years of cloud networking experience across AWS, GCP, and hybrid data center connectivity.
- Proven ability to architect, build, and scale complex network infrastructure.
- A strong track record of mentoring engineers, leading change and design reviews, and driving high-impact technical decisions across cross-functional teams.
- Hands-on experience with Aruba switching and FortiGate firewalls, along with a strong understanding of BGP, routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code, Git-based workflows (GitOps), and advanced scripting in Python and Bash.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog and hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools, including Claude, Codex, and Gemini.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence technical roadmaps, align cross-functional teams, explain complex infrastructure concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and develop engineering talent through coaching and technical guidance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to remain composed while leading the resolution of critical production issues.
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We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of DevOps, infrastructure, or network engineering experience
- Cloud networking experience across AWS, GCP, and hybrid data center connectivity
- Experience with AWS or GCP networking and hybrid cloud connectivity
- Hands-on experience with routing, switching, VPNs, BGP, firewalls, FortiGate, Aruba, and hybrid network environments
- Experience with infrastructure as code and Git-based GitOps workflows
- Advanced scripting experience in Python and Bash
- Ability to architect, build, and scale complex network infrastructure
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack
- Track record of mentoring engineers, leading change and design reviews, and driving technical decisions across cross-functional teams
- Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude, Codex, or Gemini
- May be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
It's simple, at DraftKings, we believe life is more fun when you're in on the action. For that reason, we’re committed to responsibly creating the world’s favorite games and betting experiences. We’re developing the most innovative and entertaining real money products and offers; to forever transform how people experience sports; to be a fully vertically integrated sports betting operator. It's our ultimate goal to build the best, most trusted, and most customer-centric destination for our players. We’re defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports and entertainment experiences. Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.
Why Work With Us
Here, “impossible” isn’t part of our vocabulary. You’ll face some of the toughest but most rewarding challenges of your career. They’re worth it. Channeling your inner grit will accelerate your growth, help us win as a team, and create unforgettable moments for our customers. Ready to own what’s next?
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our flexible hybrid policy empowers team members to work where they’re most productive—whether at home or in our collaborative offices. We trust our teams to choose what works best for them to thrive and innovate.
