DevOps Engineer

Bally’s Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Bally's Corporation is seeking a DevOps Engineer to modernize, scale, and ensure reliability of our infrastructure across AWS and on‑prem environments. You will collaborate with software engineers, broadcast engineers, and product managers to advance a cloud-first, AI-enabled DevOps practice.

You will own CI/CD across backend, web, mobile and CTV apps, enhance observability and incident response, and automate toil. This role favors problem solvers who design robust, scalable systems at Bally's.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years hands-on DevOps or platform engineering with a cloud focus.
• Experience with core AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, OpenSearch, CloudWatch).
• IaC with Terraform and Ansible; modular, remote state management.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability and incident-response tooling (Datadog, PagerDuty).
• Solid Linux, networking, and distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with container workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, ArgoCD).
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Willingness for on-call rotation during live events.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to design scalable, secure infrastructure in AWS and on-prem.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Ansible.
• Improve reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency of systems.
• Modernize CI/CD with AI-assisted tooling for safe, rapid delivery.
• Enhance monitoring, logging, and tracing with AIOps approaches.
• Contribute to engineering standards and design reviews.
• Promote platform consistency across teams and on-call coverage.
• Provide on-call support during live events.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Datadog

PagerDuty

Linux

Networking

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Python

Go

Shell scripting

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

PagerDuty

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

Jump into the role

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.

About the role

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 will 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

Role requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2-5 years of hands‑on DevOps or platform engineering experience, with a focus on cloud infrastructure
• Experience with core AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ALB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudWatch)
• Working knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Ansible), including reusable modules and remote state management
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with observability and incident‑response tooling (Datadog, PagerDuty, or similar)
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed architectures
• Experience operating systems at scale across multiple environments and AWS accounts
• Experience with containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, ArgoCD, or similar)
• Scripting or programming proficiency (Bash, Python, Go)
• Willingness to participate in an on‑call rotation, including evenings, weekends, and holidays during live events

About Bally's

We're Bally's, and we've always been born to entertain.

Since the Ballyverse began way back in 1932, we've been creating engaging experiences everywhere, in a way that's accessible for everyone. Across Casinos & Resorts, Interactive, and Corporate, from the gaming floor to peoples' phones, we bring the thrill wherever our customers want to play.

But none of it would be possible without our people. Our team of 11,500 diverse minds who love what they do, celebrate each other's wins, and find fun in creating moments that matter. Whether you're energized by guest connection, technical innovation, or both, there's a place for you at Bally's.