Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Tech

Job Description

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you are recognized as a go-to expert in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, providing guidance, technical leadership, and hands-on expertise to solve unique and complex challenges. You will collaborate on crafting and implementing essential cloud solutions, influencing internal team members, and contributing to the advancement of outstanding industry standards. You will help shape infrastructure strategy, drive innovation, and ensure the scalability, security, and efficiency of cloud operations. Your decisions will have a long-term impact on the organization, influencing policy, technical direction, and business success.

Key Responsibilities

1. Visionary Guidance & Technical Influence

• Serve as an internal expert, influencing cloud engineering strategy and advocating for best-in-class DevOps practices.
• Engages with leadership, validating technical and business decisions related to cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Contribute to multi-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment between infrastructure strategy and broader business goals.

2. Cloud Infrastructure Design & Innovation

• Engage in the design, collaborating with architecture, and product owners to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
• Solves complex technical challenges, requiring knowledge of organizational objectives.
• Define and implement next-generation automation strategies, eliminating manual interventions and enhancing efficiency, reliability, and security.
• Drive the evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native automation frameworks to enable fully autonomous operations.

3. Reliability, Observability & Performance

• Establish and oversee advanced observability and monitoring frameworks, ensuring real-time insights, predictive analytics, and system reliability.
• Identify hidden performance bottlenecks and proactively optimize cloud environments to meet evolving business demands.
• Define and enforce SRE principles, ensuring infrastructure resilience and reducing operational risk.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies that minimize downtime and ensure long-term stability.

4. Cost Optimization & FinOps Alignment

• Collaborate with FinOps teams to implement efficient cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with budgets and performance requirements.
• Drive cost governance frameworks, balancing performance, scalability, and financial efficiency.

5. Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical mentor and coach, guiding engineers across teams and helping shape future technical leaders.
• Define and enforce coding, automation, and cloud security standards, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and compliance.
• Develop technical tools and methodologies that enhance efficiency and support business-wide objectives.

• Business Unit Recognized Expert – Internal authority in cloud engineering.
• Visionary & Strategist – Able to conceptualize and implement future-proof cloud solutions that align with business objectives.
• Proactive Problem Solver – Tackles complex challenges using conceptual thinking and innovative approaches.
• Technical Mentor & Coach – Develops talent, sets high engineering standards, and fosters a culture of innovation.
• Business-Aligned Technologist – Engages with business unit leadership, ensuring cloud initiatives support long-term company success.

• Programming & Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash (or equivalent).
• Cloud Expertise: Extensive experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (AWS and Azure also considered).
• CI/CD & Automation: Advanced expertise in CI/CD methodologies and tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Mastery in Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices architectures.
• Observability & Monitoring: In-depth experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and other monitoring tools.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, and configuration management tools.
• Security & Compliance: Proficient in DevSecOps principles, cloud security standard methodologies, and governance frameworks.
• Experience: 8+ years in high-availability, multi-cloud SaaS environments, with a proven track record of leading complex, business-critical projects.

Why Aristocrat?

Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V

• World Leader in Gaming Entertainment

• Robust benefits package

• Global career opportunities

Our Values

• All about the Player

• Talent Unleashed

• Collective Brilliance

• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.