Senior DevOps Engineer, Agentic Automation & Live Games

Big Viking Games; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Viking Games in Toronto, ON is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize the live-service infrastructure and build agentic automation for our games. The role requires hands-on expertise in cloud operations, automation tooling, and secure, reliable systems.

You will collaborate with Engineering Leadership and operate in a hybrid schedule with three in-office days per week, contributing to uptime, data integrity, and scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Ability to build agentic automation tools and API integrations.
• Strong incident response, security, and production reliability focus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate agentic tooling that performs real DevOps work.
• Modernize infrastructure behind live-service games and ensure uptime and reliability.

Skills

AWS

Containers

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Production reliability

Incident response

Security

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer, Agentic Automation & Live Games

Toronto, ON
Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
Full-time
Department: Engineering
Reports to: Engineering Leadership
Compensation range: CAD $140,000 to $180,000

About Big Viking Games

Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities. Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies.

Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime. These are enduring live-service virtual worlds with rich in-game economies, virtual goods, social interaction, and long-term player engagement at their core.

We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger infrastructure, better automation, practical AI adoption, improved reliability, stronger security practices, and scalable systems that help our games and teams perform at a higher level.

About the Role

Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer, Agentic Automation & Live Games to modernize the infrastructure behind our live-service games and help reinvent how those systems are operated.

This is a hands-on senior infrastructure role for someone fluent in modern cloud operations: AWS, containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, production reliability, incident response, security, and automation.

But this is not a traditional DevOps role.

We are looking for someone who can build automation that does real work, not just scripts that run or dashboards that summarize. The right person has started using agentic coding tools, tool-calling systems, API integrations, workflow automation, or MCP-style tooling to safely diagnose, provision, remediate, monitor, or maintain infrastructure.

Our games run on mature systems with real players, real revenue, real constraints, and real consequences. There is meaningful room to automate how they are operated, but the work must be done with discipline. Uptime, data integrity, least-privilege access, rollback paths, auditability, and production safety matter.

The defining trait for this role is self-direction. Given a backlog, you improve how the work gets done. Left to your own judgment, you find repetitive operational work nobody has flagged, decide what is worth automating, and build it safely.

This is a hybrid role based in Toronto, with an expectation of working in office three days per week. Live-service games require operational awareness outside regular business hours, including periodic on-call and incident response availability.

What You'll Do

Build Agentic Automation for Infrastructure Work

• Design, build, and operate agentic tooling that performs real DevOps work, including