Senior Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Join our Technology Group, which is responsible for developing cutting-edge technology for gaming platforms, Game Development Kits, Tools, and Analytics Engines used globally in casinos and digital games.

We are looking for a Senior SRE/DevOps engineer passionate about increasing system development and business agility. This may involve software configuration management and deployments, automation, working on diverse platforms like Windows Desktop, Linux, web, mobile, etc., and supporting various delivery teams. You will be part of the DevOps team responsible for installing, configuring, automating, and maintaining the development and testing environment based on the needs of Aristocrat’s Design & Development teams and the accredited Test Facilities. We put a strong emphasis on individual ownership and value people who take pride in working over the full lifecycle of a project.

Additionally, you'll cultivate strong relationships with stakeholders, business partners, and technical peers across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Drive the SRE function within Aristocrat Labs working with leadership to refine the SRE role and responsibilities over time

• Educate and collaborate with delivery teams to drive strategy, features, and enhancements that improve observability and reliability back into our products

• Develop, streamline, and improve tools, processes, and best practices to reduce overall cost and manual effort, and improve our ability to rapidly recover and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment.

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain the CI/CD/CT framework to support software product development and deployments.

• Design, build, maintain, and automate the deployment of multiple environments on GCP using an infrastructure-as-code approach.

• Work closely with partner teams, various R&D groups, and stakeholders to establish, track, and report on SLO’s, SLI’s and SLA’s for our products and services

• Monitor, support, and troubleshoot issues with A-Labs services and cloud infrastructure, responding to incidents, participating in root cause analysis, and isolating build/deployment issues due to code issues.

• Plan and support the growth of A-Labs GDK infrastructure as you assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to new cloud infrastructure.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of proven experience as a Site Reliability/DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer working in a production environment

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing deployment pipelines using CI/CD best practices, methodologies, and tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions

• Solid understanding of cloud architecture – components, networking, and design principles - specializing in Google Cloud Platform (certification preferred)

• Experience working with Configuration Management tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

• Experience with monitoring and log analysis tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk

• Expertise in scripting/programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash along with experience in Github

• Proven experience working with and troubleshooting in Unix/Linux and Windows servers in virtualized environments

• Solid experience implementing production-grade Kubernetes Clusters with containerized environments and microservices (Docker, Kubernetes, helm charts, service meshes)

• Experience creating infra-as code solutions using tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation

• Bachelor or Master of Technology / Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent Master of Computer Applications required

• Must have strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrate an extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Must have strong communication skills, and proven ability to work autonomously with little oversight.

• Ability to work effectively within a globally dispersed team.

• Ability to learn deep knowledge of our complex applications.

Why Aristocrat?

Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilit