About the Role
As the foundational architect for our platform, you will own the end-to-end operationalization of our Microsoft-native stack, including deployment, observability, and security. You will set the engineering standard for the team, design CI/CD gates, define our evaluation infrastructure, and secure our AI models.
Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain the team's Azure landing zone, ensuring secure, private-network deployments inside the enterprise data boundary
- Design and operate end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for .NET agent workflows and supporting services via Azure DevOps
- Define and manage the evaluation infrastructure, utilizing Foundry Evals and Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation to establish rigorous, automated deployment gates
- Implement comprehensive observability using Foundry's 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
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Microsoft Agent Framework
- .NET Aspire
- Microsoft Foundry
- OpenTelemetry
- Foundry Local / Azure Local
- Azure OpenAI
- SOC2
- PCI
- Gaming regulatory frameworks
- DLP
- Data-classification integrations
- Purview
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- A2A (Agent-to-Agent) interoperability
- Open source contributions
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 8+ years
- 3+ years on Azure
About the Company
- Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works 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.
- 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.
- We will operate like a high-functioning startup within the enterprise: we favor shipping over process, rigorous evaluation over opinions, and strategic platform investments that make every subsequent deployment faster.
- We are leaning heavily into the modern Microsoft ecosystem, anchoring our architecture on the newly GA Microsoft Agent Framework (.NET), Azure OpenAI, and an advanced data backend powered by Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric.
- If you want to build resilient, multi-agent systems at enterprise scale, this is the team.
- Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses.
Equal Opportunity
- Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.
