DevOps Engineer: AWS Cloud, CI/CD & AI-Driven Ops

Bally's; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bally Media, part of Bally's Interactive, seeks a DevOps Engineer to modernize and scale infrastructure across AWS and on-prem. You’ll collaborate with software engineers, broadcast engineers, and product managers to evolve a cloud-first, AI-enabled DevOps practice and improve CI/CD across backend, web, mobile, and CTV apps.

This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, incident response, and automation, with on-call duties during live events and a focus on observability and platform consistency

Qualifications

• 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 cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ALB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudWatch).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with observability and incident-response tooling (Datadog, PagerDuty or similar).
• Solid Linux, networking, and distributed architectures knowledge; containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD).
• Scripting or programming in Bash, Python, or Go; on-call rotation willingness.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure in AWS.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Improve system architecture for reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency.
• Modernize CI/CD practices, including AI-assisted tooling for safe delivery.
• Enhance monitoring, logging, and tracing with AIOps approaches.
• Contribute to standards, documentation, and design reviews.
• Align DevOps tooling across teams for platform consistency.
• Support on-call coverage during live events to ensure broadcast reliability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Linux systems

Networking

Distributed architectures

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Bash

Python

Go

On-call readiness

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

PagerDuty

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Job description

Bally Media, part of Bally's Interactive, seeks a DevOps Engineer to modernize and scale infrastructure across AWS and on-prem. You’ll collaborate with software engineers, broadcast engineers, and product managers to evolve a cloud-first, AI-enabled DevOps practice and improve CI/CD across backend, web, mobile, and CTV apps.

This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, incident response, and automation, with on-call duties during live events and a focus on observability and platform consistency