Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Join IGT PlayDigital and experience what it’s like to work in the most reputable and innovative global organization in the gaming industry. As a member of the IGT PlayDigital team, you’ll work with experts on exciting projects that push the boundaries of iGaming content and technology, while contributing your knowledge and skills to the newest and fastest growing segment of the company.

An experienced, yet hands-on DevOps Engineer able to thrive in a fast-growing business where change is constant. Reporting to the DevOps Manager, you will have full ownership of delivering customer value for DevOps. As the critical interface between development and operations teams, you will be an evangelist for the DevOps culture.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the implementation of devops tooling to enable fully automated builds, improving developer’s efficiency
• Work closely with development teams to deploy applications faster and more reliably
• Use Terraform and Jenkins to enable core systems to scale ‘out’ with business demand
• Optimise hosting costs
• Evangelise DevOps culture adoption with all teams you interact with
• Build systems on an ‘expect failure’ principle providing available/resilient systems
• Work in an agile way providing visibility to work and outcomes
• Provide operational support to ensure the availability of business systems
• Managing/escalating risks and blockers
• Interface with multiple other teams such as architecture and development.

About You

• Pragmatic in your approach and maintain perspective.
• Good listener, clear communicator, and a team player
• At home in an agile environment.
• Able to evolve yourself as the business grows.
• Worked in a web-based, high transaction business.
• Technical enough to articulate complex concepts
• You accept ownership of business problems, ensuring outcomes/delivery across teams.
• Able to articulate deliverables as ‘value streams’ and business outcomes.
• Live our principles of learning faster, emphasis with our customers, communicate clearly, take appropriate risks, and think longer term.

What We’d Prefer

• Expert knowledge of AWS cloud environment
• Several years working in a DevOps role
• Experienced with monitoring tooling products like ELK, Prometheus and Grafana
• Expert knowledge of Linux specifically CentOS and RHEL
• Knowledge of PHP and MYSQL
• Experience building and deploying high traffic production environments
• Advanced skillset around automation via IaC and configuration management using Terraform, and Ansible
• Experienced in CI/CD specifically using Jenkins
• Used to work in Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Adhere to industry best practices on security, protecting our customer’s data and business IP
• Good Knowledge of Kubernetes clusters
• A love for all things automation

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We believe that a team of unique individuals creates a dynamic, modern and fun work environment. Whether language, location or life experience, IGT PlayDigital recognizes and celebrates differences between team members. Our colleagues enjoy inclusive engagement through our 7 global Employee Impact Groups; Women’s Inclusion Network (WIN), Advancing Cultural Education (ACE), PRIDE, NEXGEN, Wealth of Wisdom (WoW) and Superabilities at IGT. We’re also the three-time Top-Ranking Gaming Supplier in the All-In Diversity Project; a Best Place to Work according to the Human Rights Campaign and the Disability Equality Index; and the 2023 D&I Award winner at the Women in Gaming Diversity Awards-London.

Benefits and Culture

• Wellness allowance
• Private health insurance (including dental)
• Regular social events and weekly office breakfasts

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IGT is committed to sustaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the global customers and communities we serve, creating a fair and inclusive culture that enables all our employees to feel valued, respected and engaged.  IGT is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities without regard to sex, race, color, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, and any other personal attributes protected by federal, state, or other laws. We thank all applicants for applying; however, only those selected to interview will be contacted.

In addition to our competitive benefits package, we offer employees a 401(k) Savings Plan with Company contributions, tuition reimbursement, and free identity theft insurance.

IGT (NYSE: IGT) is the global leader in gaming. For more information, please visit www.igt.com.