This role is remote, with one required visit to your designated home office per quarter.

Remote option is available for employees located in the following states: NY, NJ, CT, MA, PA, MD, TX, WV, GA, FL, LA, MI, IA, IN, IL, MI, CO, NV, AZ, Washington D.C. (States subject to change at any time)

Home Office: Jersey City

With William Hill now a part of Caesars Entertainment, we plan to lead the pack by delivering products our customers love to use! As Caesars/William Hill, we operate sports betting in 18 U.S. jurisdictions and have partnerships with the biggest leagues and media companies in the country including, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, ESPN, and CBS Sports. Marking a major milestone in American sports history, we opened the first-ever sports betting venue within a professional United States sports facility, the William Hill Sportsbook at the Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. Partnerships like this are positioning our business to skyrocket as sports betting continues to expand across the country and our customers get a taste of the action.

On the Technology side, we’ve built an entire sports betting and iGaming platform from the ground up in less than 3 years. Through continuous improvement and data-informed product development, we are adding features so that our customers have the best product experience in the market. Our Product Technology team is comprised of the brightest minds in Tech, and our culture of autonomy and decisiveness gives the team the freedom to deliver without constantly seeking permission to take action. We chart our own path and innovate as we create the next generation of products. We’re looking for like-minded superstars that want to work with the best of the best and join the biggest name in sports betting and iGaming as we take over the U.S. market!

What You Will Do:

William Hill’s DevOps team manages our production environment by maintaining availability, scalability, disaster recovery, backup systems, system security and performance. They are responsible for resolving complex issues that involve being resourceful, employing creative problem-solving techniques, and the ability to identify the root cause of problems

 As the DevOps Product Analyst/Scrum Master you will:

• Strengthen and cultivate “DevOps” culture as the subject matter expert for William Hill’s DevOps team
• Establish CI/CD best practices and methodology and lead the DevOps team to create an annual road map and update it for prioritized quarterly deliverables
• Lead the DevOps team in release planning and version control across highly scalable cloud-based environments
• Experience with Kubernetes or other Container Orchestration tool and best practices
• Stay focused on automation and lead the team to brainstorm, test, and implement new ways to automate for delivery and to test for acceptance criteria of deliverables.
• Envision and implement best practices for Infrastructure as code to enable the teams to manage system resources and topologies as they would code.
• Work closely with engineering and design resources to document and organize requirements using Agile methods and create clear and engaging epics and user stories and detailed acceptance criteria.
• Align the team to quarterly goals and business objectives by maintaining a well- groomed and prioritized backlog in Jira
• Create process flow diagrams, project plans, charters and status readouts
• Run Scrum meetings to determine and maintain team velocity during 2-week sprint cycles using Jira-
• Provide leadership and direction to keep cloud infrastructure (AWS) costs in check.

• Lead conversations that lead to ever-improving site performance amidst growing user bases.

• Create and build deployment processes that scale
• Collaborate with software product development, architecture, and IT teams to ensure releases are delivered with repeatable and auditable processes
• Work independently across multiple platforms and applications to understand dependencies

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of work experience in an IT environment
• 4+ years of Linux Systems Engineering/Architecture experience
• Proven, expert-level experience working with highly distributed systems, scalability and SaaS applications with a proven ability to speak authoritatively about architectural, design, and implementation details
• Proven experience leading a Scrum team in either a Product Owner/Analyst or Scrum Master role
• Understanding of monitoring systems (NewRelic) and experience implementing centralized logging (Splunk)
• Demonstrated experience building efficient and secure cloud infrastructure with AWS IaaS
• Excellent communication skills to successfully interact with the technology and business teams
• Ability to thrive as an individual or a small team member on projects
• Extensive experience and knowledge in solving problems that are complex in scope, requiring in-depth evaluation as well as the ability to identify problems in advance and propose solutions
• Require limited supervision and direction; drive results, and set priorities appropriately and independently
• Excellent communication, presentation, writing, and editorial abilities
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Be proactive with leadership abilities with a strong “can do attitude”
• Highly detailed oriented
• Strong willingness & comfort taking on and challenging development approaches
• Previously worked in agile and scrum.
• Ability to work on a 24x7 on-call, weekday and weekend schedule
• Expert experience with configuration management tools like Salt/Chef/Ansible, etc.
• Expert experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, Travis, etc.
• Proven ability to script using languages like Node, Java Script, or Python
• Understanding of systems hardening and secure systems configuration
• Understanding of security concepts such as Firewalls, IPS, IDS, VPN, and MFA
• You will need to successfully complete a background and drug screen

William Hill provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union/domestic partnership status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws.  William Hill complies with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training

Essential Functions/Exposures:

• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time                                          
• Must be able to type and talk on the phone for extended periods of time                                     

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