DevOps Engineer

GamblingCareers.com; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Bally Media, a Bally's Interactive company, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to modernize and scale infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments. Reporting to the Director, Platform Engineering, you will drive observability, automation, and reliable CI/CD across backend, web, mobile, and CTV apps.

Responsibilities include developing IaC with Terraform and Ansible, enhancing monitoring and incident response, and collaborating with engineers and product managers to align platform practices.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Proficient with Terraform and Ansible for IaC.
• Strong CI/CD and automation focus.
• Ability to respond to incidents with calm mindset.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure in AWS
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible
• Improve CI/CD practices with AI-assisted tooling
• Enhance monitoring, logging, and tracing with observability
• Own on-call rotation and incident response during live events

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Automation

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

This role will be part of Bally Media, a Bally's Interactive company, that operates the Bally Sports Live and Stadium sports streaming services. Bally Sports Live reimagines how fans experience live sports through free streaming apps built around real-time interactive communities, free-to-play games, and rewards. Stadium is a free ad-supported streaming (FAST) sports network distributed through partners including Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Fire TV, Prime Video, LG Channels, Vizio WatchFree+, Tubi, YouTube TV, DirecTV, and Fubo. Together, the two platforms bring fans live events and re-airs from Minor League Baseball, the Savannah Bananas, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Bare Knuckle Boxing, Pro Fighters League, AVP Pro Beach Volleyball, and more. We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to drive the modernization, scalability, and reliability of our infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments. Reporting to the Director, Platform Engineering, you'll work closely with software engineers, broadcast engineers, and product managers to evolve our cloud-first, AI-enabled DevOps practice. You'll contribute to critical projects improving CI/CD across our backend, web, mobile, and CTV apps, strengthening observability and incident response, and aligning processes across teams and platforms. This is a hands-on role for someone who owns problems end to end, collaborates openly, brings a calm, reliability-first mindset to incidents, and is always looking to automate toil and improve how we build and operate. You'll thrive here if you enjoy solving complex problems, shaping architecture, and building robust, maintainable systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure in AWS
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible
• Contribute to improvements in system architecture, focusing on reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency
• Modernize our CI/CD practices, including the adoption of AI-assisted tooling, to enable safe, rapid delivery of services across environments
• Improve operational visibility through monitoring, logging, and tracing, applying AIOps approaches to anomaly detection and incident response.
• Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and design reviews
• Align DevOps tooling and processes across teams, promoting platform consistency and best practices
• On-call rotation and coverage during live events, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed to support broadcast reliability and incident response.

Salary: $100,000-$145,000 USD