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We run a global network of high-authority sites across casino, sports, and entertainment built on data, experimentation, and top-tier SEO.\nWe’re a private company with strong capital reserves and no outside investors, making us a stable, independent, and fast-moving place to grow your career. You’ll work directly with the CEO and leadership team, have a real voice in strategy, and see your ideas go live fast.\nWe’re scaling quickly to become one of the largest privately-owned companies in iGaming. A team where smart, driven people can have a massive impact and build something enduring.\nAbout the role\nWe are seeking a Senior AI-Native Site Reliability Engineer to lead the reliability, performance, security, automation, and operational maturity of a growing portfolio of high-performing web platforms and digital products.\nThis role is ideal for a pragmatic senior reliability engineer who can operate and improve production systems, automate repetitive work, use AI safely to accelerate operations, understand performance and security deeply, and communicate clearly during incidents.\nYou will combine senior-level SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering expertise with a modern AI-first approach to operations. You will be expected not only to maintain systems, but to improve how they are designed, monitored, deployed, secured, and operated.\nThe successful candidate will be comfortable owning critical production environments across varied technology stacks, leading incident response, improving platform resilience, mentoring others, reducing operational toil through automation, and using AI tools responsibly to accelerate analysis, documentation, monitoring, debugging, remediation, and continuous improvement.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nReliability & Operational Ownership\nOwn uptime, performance, scalability, and resilience of production web platforms and supporting infrastructure.\nDefine and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, HA, fault tolerance, DR, and graceful degradation.\nLead capacity planning, identify single points of failure, and act as senior technical owner during high-severity incidents.\nPerformance Engineering & Scalability\nLead optimization across application, infrastructure, database, caching, CDN, and edge layers (Redis, Varnish, Cloudflare or similar).\nEstablish benchmarks, regression checks, dashboards; reduce technical bloat across code, dependencies, assets, and infrastructure.\nAlign performance work with SEO, product, and commercial impact.\nAI-Native Operations & Automation\nLead safe, practical AI-assisted workflows for log analysis, incident investigation, runbook creation, monitoring, security triage, and postmortems.\nAutomate repetitive ops via scripts, IaC, and AI-assisted tooling; build anomaly detection, alert triage, and operational reporting workflows.\nCreate reusable prompts, playbooks, and templates; define guardrails for data sensitivity, access control, human approval, and auditability.\nMonitoring, Observability & Incident Management\nOwn monitoring/alerting across apps, infra, databases, caches, queues, CDNs, cloud services, and critical user journeys.\nDesign actionable dashboards and alerts that reduce noise and improve MTTD/MTTR.\nLead incident response, RCA, postmortems, and preventive actions; mentor on troubleshooting and calm communication under pressure.\nSecurity, Resilience & Platform Hardening\nOwn production security posture: WAF, SSL, vulnerability management, malware/bot mitigation, threat detection, and remediation.\nHarden servers, databases, cloud, containers, CI/CD, secrets, and production access; manage secure dependency and patching processes.\nMaintain backup, recovery, and DR practices; contribute to security incident response, containment, and prevention.\nInfrastructure, Cloud & Platform Engineering\nDesign and operate hosting/runtime environments across varied stacks (web/app servers, databases, caches, queues, containers, cloud).\nAutomate backups, updates, deployments, provisioning, and health checks using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.\nSupport AWS, GCP, Azure, or modern managed hosting; set infrastructure standards balancing reliability, security, performance, and cost.\nDevOps, Release Engineering & Developer Enablement\nLead CI/CD design, staging environments, rollback strategies, progressive delivery, and deployment observability.\nPartner with developers to embed reliability, performance, and security into the SDLC; build tooling and runbooks for safer shipping.\nDocumentation, Collaboration & Technical Leadership\nMaintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, architecture notes, and operational playbooks (AI-assisted where useful, technically validated).\nAct as senior technical partner to engineering, product, SEO, and business stakeholders; mentor engineers and shape ops standards.\nRequirements:\nPreferred Experience\n6+ years in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure, Platform, or Security Engineering.\nOperating high-traffic web platforms, SaaS, SEO/content-heavy, affiliate, publishing, media, or e-commerce environments.\nCloudflare, edge caching, WAF, CDN optimization, bot mitigation; AI-assisted ops or agentic engineering workflows.\nLeading high-severity incident response; defining SLOs, postmortems, runbooks; FinOps / cloud cost optimization.\nCertifications in AWS, GCP, Azure, Linux, Kubernetes, or security are a plus.\nRequired\nSenior-level experience in SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, or production operations.\nProficiency in Python, Bash, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar; strong Linux server administration.\nExperience with web/app servers, databases, caches, queues, CDNs, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), and production traffic flows.\nStrong Git, CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback, and release management; 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