Hard Rock Digital

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What are we building? Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates with passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically. Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us? What's the position? We are looking for a Senior Manager - DevOps to join our growing Product & Technology organization at Hard Rock Digital. As a Senior Manager, you will lead a talented team of DevOps engineers across US-based operations, providing critical leadership coverage during evenings and weekends while driving strategic improvements in work planning, coordination, and execution during standard business hours. You'll oversee the design, scaling, and security of our next-generation gaming and entertainment platforms, managing highly available, compliant, and automated hybrid-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS, on-premises systems, and third-party platforms in regulated environments. This role demands strong leadership capabilities, deep technical expertise, and the ability to mentor teams and influence stakeholders across engineering disciplines. You'll set the technical and operational vision for software delivery, infrastructure automation, and reliability---helping define and evolve best practices that shape the foundation of Hard Rock Digital's cloud ecosystem while ensuring seamless 24/7 platform operations through collaboration with our global teams in Poland. What will you do? As a Senior Manager - DevOps, you will: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning. Provide leadership-level coverage during US evenings and weekends to ensure rapid response to critical incidents and maintain platform stability. Drive strategic planning and coordination of DevOps initiatives during US business hours, working closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders. Oversee architecture and implementation of scalable AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt and related Infrastructure as Code tools. Guide the design, building, and optimization of highly available containerized environments leveraging EKS, Kubernetes, and Docker. Lead the automation strategy for CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and similar), ensuring fast, secure, and reliable software delivery across environments. Champion security by design, implementing guardrails, identity/access controls, and compliance-driven automation across infrastructure layers. Collaborate with global teams in Poland to optimize handoffs, knowledge sharing, and round-the-clock operational coverage. Manage incident response processes, conduct post-mortems, and implement preventive measures to reduce future incidents. Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, or similar. Develop and track key performance metrics for infrastructure reliability, deployment velocity, and team productivity. Drive continuous improvement in deployment processes, system resilience, and cost optimization across multiple environments. Lead recruitment efforts to build and scale the DevOps team as business needs evolve. What are we looking for? We're seeking an experienced leader who thrives on solving complex, large-scale infrastructure challenges while building and empowering high-performing teams. You should be comfortable taking ownership of both technical and people leadership decisions while helping elevate the DevOps discipline across the organization. The ideal candidate will have: 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles. 3+ years of people management experience, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and team development. Proficiency in key technologies and concepts, including EKS, networking, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt or similar), security, and compliance. Experience leading CI/CD initiatives and designing scalable delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or comparable tools. Strong communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Experience coordinating with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones preferred. Flexibility to provide leadership coverage during US evenings and weekends as needed. AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator) strongly preferred. What’s in it for you? We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include: Competitive pay and benefits Flexible vacation allowance Flexible work from home or office hours Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team Roster of Uniques We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunities employer)