Light & Wonder · 2 days ago
Principal DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expLight & Wonder is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms. They are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to build reliable, secure, and observable infrastructure for their live products, improve observability, automate processes, and manage incident responses.
GamificationGamingInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify issues and potential performance bottlenecks. Setup and configure alerting systems to notify the team of anomalies and incidents
Collaborate with software development teams to design systems that are reliable, scalable, and observable
Share ownership of incident management and root cause analysis, identifying and addressing the underlying cause of incidents, and preventing their recurrence. Communicate results out and up to keep stakeholders informed during and after incidents
Lead security initiatives to keep our cloud and on-prem systems patched and secure without interrupting service to our customers. Work with stakeholders to create patching policies and schedules to minimize disruptions to our development teams
Build out and improve CI/CD pipelines
Participate in new initiatives such as building cloud services, new client technologies, containerizing legacy systems, etc
Champion automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity
Define and instrument Service-Level Objectives that lead to a quality player experience
Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation for configurations, processes and best practices
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer Role or similar
Extensive experience with Linux systems admin and networking fundamentals
Strong experience working in a Live Services environment and proven ability to maintain highly available distributed systems
Hands-on proficiency with the Grafana stack and strong observability fundamentals
Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages, such as Python, Go or Ruby
Experience automating patching and configuration management with tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Python scripting
Experience with using Service-Level Objectives to achieve technical success
Excellent troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and communication skills
Preferred
Experience with Couchbase, F5 load balancers and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
Exposure to container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern service mesh patterns
Company
Light & Wonder
Light & Wonder engages in cross-platform games and entertainment.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1B2025-09-10Post Ipo Debt· $1B
1984-08-31IPO
Leadership Team
Oliver Chow
EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Kevin Kealy
Chief Information Security Officer
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