Platform Systems Engineer - Linux, AWS & 24/7 Ops

SCIENTIFIC GAMES; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Games, LLC is seeking a highly capable Systems Engineer to join a growing Technical Operations team supporting our lottery solutions. You will work on product releases and upgrades, ensuring reliability on Linux Ubuntu servers, PostgreSQL/SQL databases, and AWS cloud services.

You will triage issues, monitor capacity, and address security concerns while collaborating with infrastructure, development, and testing teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or similar preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in a system administration role in a high demand, highly available environment.
• Extensive background with Linux Ubuntu servers; command line, bash scripting, basic configurations.
• Strong background supporting AWS or similar cloud environments.
• Containerization experience with Docker or Podman; Kubernetes desired as well.
• Solid understanding of SQL Server or PostgreSQL database engines including configuration, data analysis, and replication including AOAG.
• Automation scripting skills using PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and knowledge of common protocols (SFTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, HTTP/S).
• Proven communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Time management and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Support new customer implementations and maintain existing solutions.
• Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve issues with system availability, latency, or performance.
• Ensure system capacity is monitored and considered in planning.
• Identify and address system security concerns.
• Ensure incidents are managed within agreed SLAs.
• Define, refine and track Service Level Objectives.
• Set up and maintain monitoring of systems and document alarms in Knowledge Base Articles.
• Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation.

Skills

Linux

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

Scripting

Networking

Communication

Documentation

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Podman

SQL Server

Job description

Scientific Games, LLC is seeking a highly capable Systems Engineer to join a growing Technical Operations team supporting our lottery solutions. You will work on product releases and upgrades, ensuring reliability on Linux Ubuntu servers, PostgreSQL/SQL databases, and AWS cloud services.

You will triage issues, monitor capacity, and address security concerns while collaborating with infrastructure, development, and testing teams.