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*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.

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 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.