Senior Director of DevOps

SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.

SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live, and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

Job Summary:

The Senior Director DevOps will manage a team that oversees all infrastructure including development and production environments, monitoring systems, and a number of other tools. This role will be responsible for driving a cohesive DevOps strategy and roadmap working with key stakeholders across the company. Delivering solutions in a timely fashion. This person would be required to be hands-on and able to jump in to troubleshoot problems and guarantee high uptime, while also managing other DevOps Engineers to maximize the team’s throughput

Essential Job Functions:

· Manage a team of DevOps professionals, maintaining schedules and ensuring that tasks are completed in a timely fashion

· Identify hardware, software, and licensing needs, and make plans to ensure all gaps are effectively covered

· Interface with CTO and other business leaders to plan for future expansion and ensure scalability and reliability

· Assist with day-to-day operations of existing infrastructure to ensure stability across existing products

· Set up and maintain monitoring and analytics systems, integrating them into applications as required

· Performance tuning of web applications, including databases and other related technology

· Troubleshoot production and development issues across the whole stack

· Assist in the rollout and deployment of new features and productions to facilitate our rapid and constant growth

· Work with vendors and partners as needed to ensure uptime goals are met

· Work with front and back-end developers to facilitate continuous integration and automated deployments

Requirements

Required Experience:

· Minimum of 10+ years of hands-on experience with Linux systems administration in a web-centric environment

· 5+ years administering networking equipment

· 5+ years designing multi-layer technical solutions using standard web-based technologies

· 5+ years of experience administering server-side virtualization technologies

Preferred Experience:

· Experience with Agile Methodologies such as Extreme Programming and/or SCRUM

· Experience with AWS administration

Education: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or 5+ years of applicable experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

· Strong working knowledge of Linux systems and common applications: MySQL, Java, Apache, kickstart, etc.

· Functional understanding of common enterprise data center technologies like DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, SNMP, SMTP

· Broad understanding of server, network, and storage technologies, and how these interact and relate to application performance and stability

· Solid understanding of system performance metrics and how they relate to application performance

· Experience with open-source monitoring and alerting systems (nagios, cacti, etc)

· Well-rounded understanding of TCP/IP, including subnetting, routing, load balancing and security

· Demonstrated experience implementing or maintaining a system configuration automation infrastructure (puppet, chef, cfengine)

· Relevant understanding of current and future trends and technologies relating to the web, cloud/virtualization, the data center, and networking

· Understanding of and experience with continual deployment/integration (Jenkins, automated deployments, etc)

· Working knowledge and experience using a scripting language for systems administration (perl/python/shell)

· Knowledge of Amazon AWS components, configurations, and best practices including Kinesis, Redshift, S3, and Glacier

We are SciPlay! We make games!

The roots of our company are simple and strong: Our founder, Aaron “Shurm” Schurman, fell head over heels for casino games and had the vision to create the most entertaining free-to-play casino games for gamers around the world. We’ve grown into a company that makes games we are truly proud of and that are enjoyed by millions of players every day. Our history is extensive, but we’re just getting started. In 1998, we got our start as Phantom EFX and in 2019, we reintroduced ourselves as SciPlay and went public on the Nasdaq.

At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally. From our yearly development conferences, shindigs, and new game launches, we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take great pride in our ability to create authentic experiences for players and we are excited to continue investing in our workforce, technology, and our data-driven approach, all with the mission of delighting our players long into the future. We believe that if we continue to stay passionate, set ambitious goals, live our values and play together, we will become the #1 social casino and casual gaming company in the world.

A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:

· Competitive salaries and annual bonuses alongside matching 401k and other competitive benefits.

· Strong commitment to work/life balance

· Fully stocked kitchen

· Fully stocked game room featuring current generation consoles and titles, shuffleboard tables, foosball tables, and arcade cabinets (including our prized 5v5 cabinet ultra-rare copy of Killer Queen!)

· Brand new, shiny, and aesthetically pleasing 10,000 sq ft office located in the Arboretum area in Austin

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have! #beYOU

SciPlayers are humble. In the live environment of mobile game development, there’s no room for egos and the loudest voice doesn’t get their way here. We are diverse in our backgrounds and our experience, both professionally and personally, and we believe our differences are key to unlocking our super powers.

SciPlay Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, SciPlay) are committed to creating a workforce of credibility and dependability. As a prerequisite to employment with SciPlay (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SciPlay conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify the 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.

SciPlay is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here EEOC Poster.

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