Release Engineer, SRE

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through ESPN BET, Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino, or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role & Team

As part of the team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it’s like to work at theScore! We are looking for a Release Engineer to join our Release Engineering team, to work cross-functionally across engineering, and be the front line for release delivery improvements. This role will be immersed in the SDLC and regulatory controls that require dedicated members focused on Developer and SRE happiness through process improvement.

About the Work

As a key member of our SRE Release Engineering team you will:

• Your time will be split between two work streams
  • Agile scrum for design and Release Engineering work / projects
  • Facilitating/executing production releases with attention to detail and great communication.
• Project work that provide services to our stakeholders encompass:
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Self-service on-demand infrastructure and clusters
  • Integrated change and release management
  • Codifying release gates to evaluate readiness and risk.
  • Identifying areas of the release process which are ideal for automation in order to reduce toil, confusion, and human error.
• Work directly with Engineers to ensure best practices around design and development, source code control, and issue tracking.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• Experiencing managing CI pipelines as code (GHA, CircleCI, Jenkins pipelines)
• Automation/Orchestration: experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools is a must. Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.
• Experience working with Containerization (Docker & Kubernetes preferred)
• Experience with a programming language (Go/Python preferred).
• Strong object oriented design skills.
• Experience in Linux
• Experience with Agile practices (JIRA / Confluence)
• Experience working with AWS, GCP, and/or on-premise.
• Ability to work independently and learn quickly.
• Love to use Git to make your life easier using CI/CD to protect your personal time
• Automation experience with coding standards and practices, configuration management, API instrumentation
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, and/or similar experience.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

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Recently being recognized as a top workplace in the United States, we believe people work their best when they can be themselves. We are looking for hungry, innovative thinkers to help us challenge the status quo of the gaming industry.  Diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to all of our processes, programs, and structures. Your story, who you are, and your experience matter here.