Senior Manager - DevOps

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