Advanced Tech Ops Engineer

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

*CANDIDATE SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVALABLE FOR ROLE*

*CANDIDATE MUST RESIDE IN THE UNITED STATES, PREFERABLY RESIDING IN, EST/EASTERN TIME ZONE*

We are seeking a skilled Advanced Tech Ops Engineer focusing on EKS/ EKSA Platforms to oversee and optimize our Kubernetes-based infrastructure, ensuring efficient deployment, scalability, and security. This role involves managing Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and EKS Anywhere (EKSA) platforms, maintaining CI/CD pipelines via GitOps practices, and leveraging ArgoCD for automated application deployments. The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud-native environments, infrastructure automation, and continuous integration/delivery processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• This role is ideal for a highly motivated, automation-focused DevOps engineer who thrives in a cloud-native and on-premise, containerized environment and is passionate about driving efficiency in modern software deployment workflows.
• Manage and optimize EKS and EKSA clusters, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Implement and maintain GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and monitoring.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Kubernetes-related performance and security issues.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance deployment workflows and ensure smooth application rollouts.
• Monitor system health, set up observability tools, and implement proactive incident response strategies.
• Ensure compliance with security and operational best practices in Kubernetes environments.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere (EKSA).
• Proficiency in GitOps methodologies and tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, or Jenkins X.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, RBAC, and security best practices.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Helm.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools like New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go) for automation.
• Familiarity with AWS services related to Kubernetes, such as IAM, VPC, and Load Balancers.

Nice to Have:

• Golang

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Job Level Description

Works on short- and mid-term assignments that regularly require the application of independent judgment. Mentors less experienced members of the team. Participates in product design. Able to anticipate and avoid roadblocks before they occur.

Qualifications

Education/Years of Experience:

• Computer Science degree preferred or equivalent work lieu of degree.
• 8 to 12 years of experience.

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