Senior AI Platform Engineer

Corporate:

Light & Wonders corporate team iscomprisedof incredibletalent thatworks across the enterprise defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

About the Team

We are building a tight-knit senior engineering group based in Austin TX tasked with creating the next generation of enterprise automation at Light & Wonder. Our mission is to design deliver and scale production-grade Agentic AI workflows that execute highly complex meaningful tasks across the business.

About the Role

As our first platform hire you will be the foundational architect of our deployment observability and security posture. We have chosen a deliberately Microsoft-native path. Aspire Azure Functions and Foundry. You will own the end-to-end operationalization of this stack.

You wont just be maintaining pipelines; you will set the engineering standard for the entire team. You will have deep autonomy to design the CI/CD gates define our robust evaluation infrastructure and secure our AI models for sovereign workloads. You are the safeguard ensuring that as we scale our agentic workflows our platform remains fast observable and secure by default.

Essential Job Functions

• Architect and maintain the teams Azure landing zone ensuring secure private-network deployments inside the enterprise data boundary

• Design and operate end-to-end CI/CD pipelines agent workflows and supporting services via Azure DevOps

• Define and manage the evaluation infrastructure utilizing Foundry Evals and to establish rigorous automated deployment gates

• Implement comprehensive observability using Foundrys native MAF tracing and OpenTelemetry multi-agent semantics for distributed cross-agent traces

• Enforce a strict security posture across Entra ID Key Vault and private endpoints including data-classification integration via Purview

• Codify sovereign and hybrid deployment patterns as Infrastructure as Code (Bicep) to enable reliable team self-service

• Drive incident response establish mature on-call rotations and provide technical mentorship to platform engineers

Required Qualifications

• 8 years in DevOps platform or infrastructure engineering with at least 3 years on Azure

• Advanced hands-on with Azure services: AKS App Service Functions API Management Key Vault Entra ID App Insights / Azure Monitor

• Strong IaC fluency (Bicep preferred for Microsoft-native parity; Terraform also acceptable). Production experience designing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps

• Strong scripting in Python PowerShell or Bash; comfortable reading C# and TypeScript

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker AKS / Kubernetes)

• Experience operating LLM or agent systems in production - serving evaluation observability and cost control

• Working knowledge of enterprise identity (Entra ID / AAD) secret management private endpoints and secure-by-default networking

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on with Microsoft Agent Aspire and Microsoft Foundry (Observability and/or Evals). MAF is recently GA; depth is uncommon and not required but signals of fluency with the surrounding Microsoft AI stack are weighted heavily

• Experience with OpenTelemetry including the multi-agent semantic conventions for distributed agent tracing

• Experience with Foundry Local / Azure Local or other on-prem/sovereign Azure deployment patterns (e.g. Azure / SAIL Sovereign AI Landing Zone)

• Experience with Azure OpenAI capacity planning PTU management and cost optimization

• Exposure to SOC2 PCI or gaming regulatory frameworks.

• Experience designing DLP and data-classification integrations (Purview) for AI systems

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) interoperability

• Contributions to open source in the platform engineering AI platform or agent-tooling space

Qualifications

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 the ability to adjust focus while working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming 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 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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