DevOps Engineer

Code Wizards Group; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming infrastructure company seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to support and enhance multiplayer games. The role involves working closely with game studios, providing technical guidance, and managing infrastructure challenges. Applicants should have strong experience in automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible, along with a background in the gaming industry. This full-time position offers opportunities to tackle exciting technical challenges within a vibrant team.

Qualifications

• Experience working directly with customers at large game publishers and studios.
• Comfortable coaching and helping team members.
• Expertise in diagnosing customer infrastructure issues.
• Deep experience with Linux server administration.
• Keen interest in programming or code-based projects.
• Experience in the gaming industry, ideally with backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Advise customers on best practices for game launches.
• Write terraform scripts to implement and scale game infrastructure.
• Support internal teams and address outages promptly.

Skills

Customer interaction and troubleshooting

Coaching team members

Root cause analysis

Automation (Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kubernetes)

Linux server administration

Programming skills

Experience with game engines (Unity or Unreal)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Code Wizards Group is a world leader in backend and multiplayer infrastructure for the gaming industry. From high-scale AAA console and PC games to fast-paced mobile indie titles, we empower studios to bring multiplayer experiences to life.

Within the Group lie Multiplayer Wizards, whose sole responsibility is to help game studios run and operate their game infrastructure seamlessly for the players.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer here, you are the backbone of multiplayer games. You use your wealth of games industry knowledge and your technical DevOps skills to help keep games online and running, whatever challenges are thrown at you. You form a core part of our global operations team, and you work closely with game studios to help them with the challenges of global infrastructure.

One day you might be working with a customer planning and advising best practices for their upcoming game launch and the next day you might be writing terraform to implement and scale a new game infrastructure.

You'll use your skills to help educate others in the team and act as an escalation point for head-scratching problems. Incidents are no problem for you, and you are happy to pick up and run with an outage, working with internal teams and the customer to keep game infrastructure online.

Do you love the games industry, a constant technical challenge and working with smart folks on interesting problems? Come and say hi!

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Someone who can work directly with customers at large game publishers and studios Advising on best practices or troubleshooting/debugging
• Comfortable coaching and helping team members, helping with escalated issues and navigating difficult scenarios that may require you to manage situations across multiple teams
• An excitement to expand your knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure and tools
• Expertise diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including in incident scenarios
• Able to proactively identify and raise methods of improving team efficiency and procedures which will help improve the support to our customers
• Automation guru on a wide variety of tools – Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kubernetes to name a few
• Excellent knowledge of containers, clouds, virtual machines (Preferably AWS)
• Deep experience with Linux server administration
• Able to write clean, scaleable and performant scripts & code
• Highly productive - Known by others for getting things done!
• Comfortable being part of a regular on-call rotation supporting our customers and internal teams
• A keen interest in programming or tinkering with your own code-based projects!
• Experience working in the gaming industry, ideally backend systems for online games
• Experience with game engines such as Unity or Unreal

Please note, we will be initially looking to priorotise those people with previous experience working within the Games Industry.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering, Information Technology, and Other

Industries

• Software Development, Computer Games, and Computer and Network Security