Senior DevOps Manager

iGaming:
If it’s iGaming, we know a thing or two. At Light & Wonder, It’s all about the games, and our digital team leads the global iGaming market, providing jaw-dropping content and innovative software that powers the world's most successful online gaming providers.

Position Summary

Light & Wonder is the global leader in cross-platform games and entertainment. The company brings together 5,000 employees from six continents to connect content between land-based and digital channels with unmatched technology and distribution. Guided by a culture that values daring teamwork and creativity, Light & Wonder builds new worlds of play, developing game experiences loved by players around the globe. The company’s Infinity platform powers the largest digital-gaming network in the industry. Light & Wonder is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more, visit lnw.com.

Role Description: 

We have an exciting opportunity to lead our core platform DevOps team through high quality, low touch, scalable solutions across a mix of technologies and deployment stacks globally.

We want to hear from candidates who can relate to many of the following: 

• In-depth experience in supporting and driving a DevOps culture and building out capability.

• Deep working experience with practices including CI/CD, Microservices, Infrastructure as Code, Security as Code, Monitoring/Logging, Containerisation, Container Orchestration (e.g.K8S, ECS)

• Identify, develop, train, and execute on the DevOps lifecycle, tech stack and best practices 

• Define and develop scalable Microservice architectures and solutions 

• Develop strong, collaborative relationships with key internal stakeholders in Product, TechOps, Security, Development Engineering, and Compliance

• Lead, mentor, develop and promote DevOps team members around the globe 

• Define KPIs that track the efficiencies of DevOps investment 

• Own the DevOps roadmap, always refining it for the short, medium, and long term

• Lead efforts with Infrastructure as Code and fully automated deployment environments and pipelines, using use of tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Docker

• Working with cross-functional teams within a software practice, ensuring that the work that is fed into, and processed through the Development Engineering Scrum teams, is of the right technical quality. 

• Operational experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Splunk, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus and ELK 

Qualifications

About You: 

• Previous team management experience and strong people/technical leadership skills. 

• Strong initiative, troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities. 

• Dynamic, self-motivated with a desire to produce the best solution possible. 

• Ability to work in a very fast-paced, ever-evolving technology environment. 

• A passion for technology, automation, and continuous improvement and innovation. 

• A learning mindset, and the curiosity to dive under the covers. 

• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to mentor, coach, and build strong global teams. 

• Strong influencing and negotiation skills. 

• Be proactive in identifying gaps, prioritizing, and making proposals for continuous improvement. 

• 5 years’ experience in DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE with 3+ years leading DevOps strategy and delivery, and managing global teams

• 5+ years’ experience in AWS/GCP/Azure configuration management tools such as Ansible / Chef / Puppet

• 6+ years’ experience in software development using Python, Java, C++ and/or 6+ years’ experience in Unix/Linux and shell scripting 

• 3+ years’ experience with scripting tools to create customized DevOps tools 

• Automation of Development / Test environment creation process for Linux-based platforms. Bonus points for experience with Mac infrastructure

• Experience with monitoring and log analysis tools such as Splunk, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus and ELK 

• Hands on experience with relational and non-relational databases and provisioning persistence layers, plus CDN management

• Solid familiarity with Data infrastructure principles and technologies, including the implementation of Kafka and MSK

• Familiarity with good software design and application architectural practices. 

• Ability to define and measure non-functional requirements, such as reliability, availability, security, and performance

• Have a sense of humour!

Additional information

Why would you enjoy working with us at Light & Wonder?

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace.

• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow.

• Exciting projects with opportunities for creating positive change to our game ecosystem.

And if that is not enough; you will get to enjoy a stunning work location and flexible working whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.

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