Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

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Position Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer - DevOps at Light & Wonder, you will be a key contributor within a collaborative, global engineering team focused on delivering robust, innovative technology solutions. These solutions support both internal systems and customer-facing products. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining software automation and tools used to configure, build, package, deploy, and test software. Must have passion for DevOps and understand its importance in the software supply chain.

Essential Job Functions

Developer of products built with sufficient quality and efficiency to meet business goals

Follow detailed requirements and instructions provided by the Manager to ensure accurate and thorough testing

Provides Operational and Customer Support when required

Contributes to development planning, and provides progress reports to superiors

Technical Services and Operations Support may consume 30% of job function

Total commitment to customer satisfaction

Individual contributor and team leader

Ability to rapidly understand requirements, architectures, and development tools

Designs solutions to requirement and architectural constraints

Knowledge transfer and mentorship to other engineers

Aggressively pursue resolution to issues with release engineering systems and tools

Expert troubleshooting skills

Ability to support multiple projects

Acting independently to determine methods and procedures for new assignments

Proactively researches and evaluates new technologies

Determines appropriate time to apply new technologies

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience

5+ years of experience in implementing DevOps practices

Gaming industry experience preferred

Qualifications Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Position requires excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with other team members

Good time management and organizational skills

Detailed oriented and capable of working and completing tasks with minimal supervision

Able to work and deliver in a fast paced, deadline-oriented environment

Results oriented, risk taking and extensive multi-tasking ability

Passion for DevOps and understanding of its importance in the software supply chain

Experience with virtual environments, Jenkins automation, Packer/Docker, Chocolatey desired

Strong development abilities in C#, C++, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP.Net, HTML, Perl, awk, Python, Lua

Strong PowerShell, Batch scripting, and Shell scripting abilities

Experience with databases such as MS SQL Server

Expert with software version control systems; GitHub, Perforce

Proficient with Atlassian tools JIRA and Confluence desired

Leadership and team management abilities

This position requires 5 Days in Office

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

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W 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 L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W 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.

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