Senior Software Engineer Contract Jobs in Nevada

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

As a Senior Software Engineer - DevOps at Light & Wonder, you will be a key contributor within a collaborative, global engineering team focused on delivering robust, innovative technology solutions. These solutions support both internal systems and customer-facing products. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining software automation and tools used to configure, build, package, deploy, and test software. Must have passion for DevOps and understand its importance in the software supply chain.

Essential Job Functions

• Developer of products built with sufficient quality and efficiency to meet business goals

• Follow detailed requirements and instructions provided by the Manager to ensure accurate and thorough testing

• Provides Operational and Customer Support when required

• Contributes to development planning, and provides progress reports to superiors

• Technical Services and Operations Support may consume 30% of job function

• Total commitment to customer satisfaction

• Individual contributor and team leader

• Ability to rapidly understand requirements, architectures, and development tools

• Designs solutions to requirement and architectural constraints

• Knowledge transfer and mentorship to other engineers

• Aggressively pursue resolution to issues with release engineering systems and tools

• Expert troubleshooting skills

• Ability to support multiple projects

• Acting independently to determine methods and procedures for new assignments

• Proactively researches and evaluates new technologies

• Determines appropriate time to apply new technologies

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of experience in implementing DevOps practices

• Gaming industry experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Position requires excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with other team members

• Good time management and organizational skills

• Detailed oriented and capable of working and completing tasks with minimal supervision

• Able to work and deliver in a fast paced, deadline-oriented environment

• Results oriented, risk taking and extensive multi-tasking ability

• Passion for DevOps and understanding of its importance in the software supply chain

• Experience with virtual environments, Jenkins automation, Packer/Docker, Chocolatey desired

• Strong development abilities in C#, C++, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP.Net, HTML, Perl, awk, Python, Lua

• Strong PowerShell, Batch scripting, and Shell scripting abilities

• Experience with databases such as MS SQL Server

• Expert with software version control systems; GitHub, Perforce

• Proficient with Atlassian tools JIRA and Confluence desired

• Leadership and team management abilities

• This position requires 5 Days in Office

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

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