DevOps Team Lead

DevOps Team Lead – Brightstar Lottery

Location: Roma, IT, 00154

Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. We have a longstanding commitment to Responsible Gaming (RG). Brightstar is trusted partner to governments and regulators worldwide, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.

Overview

Our team is growing and Brightstar is seeking a talented DevOps engineer to join our team to build world class Lottery products. As part of our integration team, you will be automating our delivery process of our latest product offerings. If you are passionate about joining an awesome team to build top quality products, we want to talk with you!

Responsibilities

• Strive for continuous improvement in efficiency and governance of workflows
• Design and develop tooling that will drive the efficiencies in workflows
• Work closely with requirements engineers to estimate quality products
• Promote high quality and timely completion of projects
• Work with onsite and remote teams
• Provide technical solutions to complex problems and write technical documents
• Deliver top quality feature rich software on time on budget
• Responsible for support 24/7 support of solutions in specialized or disaster situations

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience or related scripting
• 5+ years of experience working with software development pipelines
• Computer Science Bachelor's degree, College degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills

• Experience coding in scripting languages (Bash, Python, Groovy, etc.)
• Extensive experience with:
  • Container technologies (Docker)
  • Container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
  • Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
  • CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Version control systems (Git)
  • Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
• Experience working with Terraform
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure)
• Experience with build and packaging tools (ant, maven, gulp, etc)
• Experience with:
  • Advanced Linux system administration
  • Cloud-native architectures and microservices
  • Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
  • Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK stack)
  • Security best practices and compliance requirements
  • Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English

Keys to Success

• Building collaborative relationships
• Decision making
• Drive results
• Foster innovation
• Personal energy
• Self-leadership

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Brightstar is committed to sustaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the global customers and communities we serve, and to creating a fair and inclusive culture that enables all our employees to feel valued, respected and engaged. Brightstar is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship, covered veteran status, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable local, state, federal laws or other laws. We thank all applicants for applying; however, only those selected to interview will be contacted. All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.