Job Opportunities API

At the heart of everything we do is our vision to change lives every day, and our mission to grow The National Lottery responsibly and champion its impact. We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy, and the US.   While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.     We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…   If you need any assistance or adjustments to this job description or in the application process, please contact a member of the talent team at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help.   A bit about the role The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge and experience in AWS, Terraform, Ansible and GitHub Actions, along with strong Python programming skills and experience in CI/CD workflows. You will assist teams to ensure standards are followed and maintained. This role requires a proactive individual who can troubleshoot at a low level, standardise solutions, and implement best practices across multiple platforms and technologies.   What you’ll be doing As a senior you will drive the design, deployment, and management of the automation and monitoring platforms to support our applications and services. Establish and enforce best practices for security, compliance, and cost management. Build & maintain the monitoring and alerting infrastructure and configuration. Develop dashboards to visualise key information to business stakeholders. Configure automation for new system integrations using existing custom frameworks and manage job configurations using Control-M scheduling. Develop new automated processes making use of programming knowledge. Maintain a fundamental understanding of the Allwyn infrastructure and gaming platforms to aid with capacity planning and troubleshooting. Build GitHub Actions automations to deploy code into test & production environments Work Management Work with the Tech Lead and Technical Delivery Manager to orchestrate work for the team, breaking down epics and stories into smaller stories and tasks that the engineers can work on in a day, and monitor these. Ensure that work is of a suitable quality for the team. Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and delivery managers to shape and refine the backlog. Make sure that the work management system ticket status is kept up to date in near real time. i.e. when the team starts work on a ticket change it's status to reflect the same. What experience we’re looking for Experience with application monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, along with administration skills in Sensu, Logz.io: Modern Observability Powered by AI , Consul, Hashicorp Vault, Grafana, Graphite & InfluxDB, or equivalents. Some experience with ServiceNow ITOM would be a bonus. Comprehensive practical experience with AWS, use of Terraform & Ansible and past use ​​of ECS & Fargate, containerisation using Docker to build custom images. Experience using serverless technologies, for example Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge.  Exhibit strong object-oriented programming skills in Python, with practical experience in writing Lambda functions and/or complex scripts.  Familiarity with CI/CD tools, code linting, and experience with GitHub Actions. Significant experience with low-level *nix administration and troubleshooting. Possess a strong understanding of network and web technologies, including the TCP/IP stack, HTT