Senior Manager - DevOps

About the role

What are we building?
Hard Rock Digital is a fiercely focused team working to become the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a deeply curious team with a passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We’re customer-obsessed — we care about each customer 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, 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. You will work alongside our existing Senior Managers in DevOps, leading a talented team of DevOps engineers across US-based operations. You’ll provide leadership coverage during evenings and weekends, and during standard business hours you’ll drive improvements in how work is planned, coordinated, and executed.

You will oversee the design, scaling, and security of the cloud and platform infrastructure behind our gaming and entertainment platforms, managing highly available, compliant, and automated hybrid-cloud infrastructure in regulated environments. You will partner closely with our data engineering and data infrastructure teams so the foundations their platforms rely on are reliable, secure, and cost-effective. You will also help lead how new platforms and environments are onboarded, from assessing requirements to aligning them with our standards and consolidating redundant workloads.

You’ll set the technical and operational vision for platform onboarding, infrastructure automation, and reliability. You’ll also work with our global teams in Poland to keep the platform running smoothly 24/7.

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, building a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning

• Provide leadership coverage during US evenings and weekends to respond quickly to critical incidents and maintain platform stability

• Lead recruitment efforts to build and scale the DevOps team as business needs evolve

• Develop and track key performance metrics for infrastructure reliability, onboarding timelines, deployment velocity, and team productivity

Infrastructure & Automation

• Oversee the architecture and implementation of scalable AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt and related Infrastructure as Code tools

• Guide the design, build, and optimization of highly available containerized and conventional environments across AWS

• Contribute to the automation strategy for CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and similar) to deliver software quickly, securely, and reliably across environments

• Champion security by design by building guardrails, identity/access controls, and compliance-driven automation across infrastructure layers

Platform Onboarding & Data Partnership

• Partner with the data engineering and data infrastructure teams to provide the infrastructure, automation, and operational support that data platforms rely on

• Partner with Security, Compliance, and other business functions to make sure newly onboarded platforms meet regulatory, audit, and access-control requirements

Planning, Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Drive strategic planning and coordination of DevOps initiatives during US business hours with engineering, data, product, and business stakeholders

• Collaborate with global teams in Poland to improve handoffs, knowledge sharing, and round-the-clock operational coverage

• Plan capacity for high-volume events, using load data and forecasting to scale platforms ahead of demand

• Drive continuous improvement in deployment processes, system resilience, and cost optimization across multiple environments

Requirements

What are we looking for?
We’re looking for an experienced leader who enjoys solving complex, large-scale infrastructure problems while building and empowering high-performing teams. You should be comfortable owning both technical and people decisions, and you should enjoy the ambiguity of bringing new platforms and teams into an established environment.

• 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 EKS, networking, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt or similar), security, and compliance

• Experience supporting data platforms or working closely with data engineering teams

• Experience with platform integration or consolidation, such as onboarding diverse systems into a shared cloud environment

• Experience leading CI/CD initiatives and designing scalable delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or comparable tools

• Flexibility to provide leadership coverage during US evenings and weekends as needed

Skills & Competencies

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to mentor teams and influence stakeholders across engineering disciplines

• Comfortable owning both technical and people leadership decisions

• Strategic thinker who can set technical and operational vision while staying hands-on with execution

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator) strongly preferred

• Experience coordinating with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones

• Experience in regulated industries such as sports betting, iGaming, or financial services

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

• Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

• A pivotal role scaling our infrastructure, bringing new platforms into the fold, and building a world-class team

• The autonomy to shape our technology stack, team culture, and the experience of millions of players worldwide

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 opportunity employer).