Senior DevOps Engineer

SCIENTIFIC GAMES; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Games seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to strengthen infrastructure, improve deployment reliability, and help scale secure, high-performing platforms.

You will work across infrastructure automation, CI/CD, system administration, container platforms, and observability. You will partner closely with engineering and operations teams to improve delivery efficiency, platform resilience, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Practical IaC and system administration experience.
• Hands-on CI/CD with modern tooling and pipelines.
• Strong Linux skills and networking knowledge.
• Kubernetes/containerization and orchestration expertise.
• Cloud experience in AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience with observability, monitoring and incident response.
• Certifications such as AWS DevOps or Docker are a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain IaC-based infrastructure.
• Build, optimize and support CI/CD pipelines for faster releases.
• Administer Linux-based systems across dev and prod.
• Manage and enhance Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Drive automation across deployments and operational workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve build, release and deployment processes.
• Monitor health, performance and reliability using observability tools.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and network issues.
• Support secure platform operations and secrets management.

Skills

IaC

Linux

CI/CD

Networking

Cloud platforms

Observability

Automation

Kubernetes

Containers

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Helm

Vault

New Relic

Graylog

Job description

Scientific Games
Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and the partner of choice for government lotteries. From cutting-edge backend systems to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We push game designs to the next level and are pioneers in data analytics and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, legendary performance, and unwavering security to responsibly propel the global lottery industry ever forward. Scientific Games
Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and the partner of choice for government lotteries. From cutting-edge backend systems to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We push game designs to the next level and are pioneers in data analytics and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, legendary performance, and unwavering security to responsibly propel the global lottery industry ever forward.

Scientific Games
Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and the partner of choice for government lotteries. From cutting-edge backend systems to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We push game designs to the next level and are pioneers in data analytics and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, legendary performance, and unwavering security to responsibly propel the global lottery industry ever forward. Scientific Games
Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and the partner of choice for government lotteries. From cutting-edge backend systems to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We push game designs to the next level and are pioneers in data analytics and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, legendary performance, and unwavering security to responsibly propel the global lottery industry ever forward.

Position Summary

Scientific Games is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team who can strengthen infrastructure, improve deployment reliability, and help scale secure, high-performing platforms.

In this role, you will work across infrastructure automation, CI/CD, system administration, container platforms, and observability. You will partner closely with engineering and operations teams to improve delivery efficiency, platform resilience, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Build, optimize, and support CI/CD pipelines to improve release quality and speed
• Administer and support Linux-based systems across development and production environments
• Manage and enhance Kubernetes and containerized platforms
• Drive automation across infrastructure, deployments, and operational workflows
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes
• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability using logging and observability tools
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, networking, and platform issues
• Support secure platform operations, including secrets management and operational best practices
• Contribute to scalable, resilient, and maintainable DevOps standards across the organization

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related roles
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration
• Experience with software development practices and continuous integration / continuous delivery
• Strong proficiency in Linux environments
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration concepts
• Solid knowledge of computer networking concepts
• Hands-on experience with tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Argo CD, Helm, Vault, New Relic, and Graylog
• Experience working with AWS cloud services and Azure cloud environments
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Docker Certified Associate
• Experience supporting secure, highly available, and distributed production systems
• Familiarity with modern monitoring, automation, and platform reliability practices
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

SG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.