Kubernetes & GitOps Platform Engineer - iLottery

SCIENTIFIC GAMES

Kansas

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Scientific Games, LLC seeks a TechOps Engineer to join our Technical Operations team supporting iLottery platforms. You will focus on cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, GitOps-driven CI/CD, and platform reliability engineering.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Development, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and security of mission-critical gaming platforms, including hands-on modernization and deployment initiatives.

Qualifications

3+ years of Linux system administration experience in highly available production environments.
Strong experience supporting Ubuntu Linux systems, including administration, diagnostics, performance tuning, and automation.
Hands-on experience administering Kubernetes clusters in both on-premises and cloud environments.
Experience implementing and supporting GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and related tooling.
Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Graylog, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools.
Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and microservices architectures.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure platforms and virtualization technologies including VMware.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, HTTP/S, SSH, SMTP, FTP, and load balancing concepts.
Experience supporting messaging and event-driven platforms such as RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or Redis.
Familiarity with MySQL and/or MS SQL administration, replication, and performance analysis.
Strong scripting and automation experience using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
Excellent troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management abilities.

Responsibilities

Support deployment, maintenance, and operational excellence of customer-facing iLottery and loyalty platforms.
Design, implement, and maintain GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and related automation frameworks.
Administer and support Kubernetes environments across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
Manage and troubleshoot containerized workloads and supporting platform services.
Monitor, triage, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to system availability, latency, scalability, and application performance.
Implement and maintain observability solutions utilizing Graylog, New Relic, and related monitoring/logging platforms.
Define, refine, and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs), operational metrics, and platform health indicators.
Support infrastructure automation and configuration management initiatives.
Ensure system capacity, resiliency, and disaster recovery considerations are incorporated into operational planning.
Identify and remediate infrastructure and application security concerns.
Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability, release processes, and operational readiness.
Ensure incidents and service requests are addressed within established SLAs.
Maintain accurate operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles.
Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation supporting production systems.