Senior Manager - DevOps

Hard Rock Digital; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible vacation

Autonomy to shape infrastructure

Round-the-clock coverage with US/Polan

Job summary

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a seasoned DevOps leader to guide a cloud and hybrid infrastructure that underpins digital gaming and entertainment platforms. You combine people leadership with technical direction, ensuring secure, reliable, automated environments and coordinating platform onboarding with engineering, data, security, and compliance partners.

The role requires leadership coverage during US evenings and weekends, with planning and improvement work during standard business hours.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years in DevOps/SRE or related field.
• At least three years of people management experience.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes-based infrastructure and IaC.
• Experience supporting data platforms or collaborating with data teams.
• Experience leading CI/CD initiatives and on-call coverage.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, hire, and develop DevOps engineers; track reliability, onboarding, deployment speed, and team productivity.
• Guide scalable AWS and hybrid infrastructure, including containerized environments and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Improve delivery automation and CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Establish security controls, access policies, and compliance automation.
• Partner with data teams to provide dependable infrastructure and operational support for their platforms.
• Coordinate onboarding and consolidation of platforms, plan capacity for high-demand events, and improve reliability, handoffs, and cloud costs.

Skills

People management

CI/CD leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cloud infrastructure understanding

Security & compliance mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Role overview

Lead a DevOps team responsible for the cloud and hybrid infrastructure that supports digital gaming and entertainment platforms. You’ll combine people leadership with technical direction, overseeing secure, reliable, automated environments and coordinating platform onboarding with engineering, data, security, and compliance partners. The role includes leadership coverage during US evenings and weekends, alongside planning and improvement work during standard business hours.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, hire, and develop DevOps engineers; track measures of reliability, onboarding, deployment speed, and team productivity.
• Guide scalable AWS and hybrid infrastructure, including containerized environments and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Improve delivery automation and CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Establish security controls, access policies, and compliance automation.
• Partner with data teams to provide dependable infrastructure and operational support for their platforms.
• Coordinate onboarding and consolidation of platforms, plan capacity for high-demand events, and improve reliability, handoffs, and cloud costs.

Requirements

• Eight or more years in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a similar field.
• At least three years of people management, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and team development.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes-based infrastructure, networking, infrastructure as code, security, and compliance.
• Experience supporting data platforms or working closely with data engineering teams.
• Background integrating or consolidating platforms in a shared cloud environment.
• Experience leading CI/CD initiatives and flexibility to provide evening and weekend coverage as needed.
• Strong communication and stakeholder leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with tools such as Terraform or Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.

Benefits and work setup

The listing mentions competitive pay and benefits, flexible vacation, and autonomy to shape the infrastructure and team. The position works with teams in the US and Poland to provide round-the-clock operational coverage.