DevOps Engineer

Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who will collaborate with software engineers, system operators and other IT staff members.

You will enjoy a fresh and dynamic team where your ideas will be equally valued as your engineering expertise.

Day to day responsibilities

• Manage code releases and deployments;
• Automate and streamline the infrastructure operations and processes;
• Help automate and streamline operations and processes;
• Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations;
• Ensure a best-in-class Live infrastructure, stable and scalable, for the ongoing projects;
• Key Activities
  • Project Planning;
  • Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings;
  • Provide guidance and architectural expertise on system options, risk, impact and costs vs. Benefits;
  • Create and share their operational requirements and development forecasts to allow for timely and accurate planning of projects;
• Development
  • Collaborate with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices;
  • Own the constant testing, monitoring and tuning to keep our game services performant and available;
  • Install and configure solutions, implement reusable components and translate technical requirements;
  • Assist with all stages of test data, develop interface stubs and simulators and perform script maintenance and updates;
• Deployment
  • Build automated deployments using configuration management technology;
  • Deploy new modules and upgrades and complete fixes within the production environment; 

• • Make modules ready for production, which entails moving them according to specific procedures and documenting knowledge transfer;
  • Provide direct server support during various operations such as deployment and general production;
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Routine application maintenance tasks;
  • Create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance;
  • Assist with troubleshooting systems-related backend issues, including database, scalability, and other configuration errors;
• Performance Management
  • Evaluate existing applications and platforms;
  • Give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis, identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications;
  • Collaborate with product owners on technical roadmaps, suggest process and architecture improvements to better serve our userbase and clients;

Skills and competencies required 

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal;
• Ability to convey technical concepts over the telephone;
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize work;
• Attention to deal and problem-solving skills;
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and adapt quickly to new technologies;
• Desired Experience;
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent;
• Minimum of three years of DevOps experience;
• Experience with software deployment in a large-scale environment;
• Experience designing, implementing, and testing Disaster Recovery plans;
• Ability and experience to understand and consult on enterprise-wide infrastructure;
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, ECS etc.);
• Experience with container management tools like Docker or Kubernetes;
• Experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI;
• Knowledge of Common Network protocols and standard services (SSH, SSL, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS, NFS etc);
• Significant experience with Linux/Unix administration and moderate to significant experience administering relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc.;
• Experience with Git and GitHub – Version control system and source code management;
• Command Line and Scripting experience like BASH/Python;