Senior Developer; Python

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, large scale 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  and we'll be happy to help.

The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge and experience in AWS, Terraform, Ansible and Git Hub 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.

• 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 Git Hub Actions automations to deploy code into test & production environments

• 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

• Experience with application monitoring tools such as App Dynamics, along with administration skills in Sensu, Logz.io:
  Modern Observability Powered by AI , Consul, Hashicorp Vault, Grafana, Graphite & Influx
  
  DB, or equivalents. Some experience with Service Now 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, Dynamo
  
  DB, Event Bridge.
• 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 Git Hub Actions
• Significant experience with low-level
  * nix administration and troubleshooting
• Possess a strong understanding of network and web technologies, including the TCP/IP stack, HTTP, HTTPS, RESTful APIs, certificates & encryption
• Have some web development experience using modern technologies, preferably NodeJS, Java or equivalent
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence for project management and collaboration
• Have a basic understanding of Azure services
• Be an excellent communicator, able to collaborate at different levels, across diverse skill teams.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset, capable of assessing risks and proposing effective mitigation actions based on professional judgement.
• Be highly self-motivated, proactive, and capable of working both independently and as part of a team.
• Handle ambiguity, competing requirements, and shifting priorities. Be open to self-disruption, modernization, and simplification.
• Demonstrate a desire for consistency and automation of everything.

• Business Expertise:Has developed skills to help support the TNL infrastructure
• Product & Service Expertise:Has developed a key understanding of the products and services offered by the business and the key stakeholders for each area
• Delivering Solutions (Problem Solving): Solves problems by selecting from a range of experience and existing…