DevOps Engineer

Code Wizards Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming infrastructure company in Birmingham seeks a Contract DevOps Engineer to support gaming infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a strong background in the gaming industry, experience migrating live services, and proficiency in automation tools like Ansible and Terraform. This role involves diagnosing infrastructure issues, improving team efficiency, and participating in an on-call rotation. Ideal for those passionate about keeping games online and running smoothly.

Qualifications

• Experience migrating a live service game in production.
• Excitement to expand knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of containers and virtual machines.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure.
• Identifying methods to improve team efficiency.
• Assisting with escalated issues across teams.
• Writing clean, scalable scripts and code.
• Taking part in a regular on-call rotation.

Skills

Experience in the gaming industry

Knowledge of backend systems for online games

Automation knowledge (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)

Excellent knowledge of containers and Linux server administration

Demonstrable programming experience

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Grafana

Kubernetes

AWS

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 to run and operate their game infrastructure seamlessly for the players.

We're on the search for some Contract DevOps Engineering talent to join the team working on some specific game migration work.

Are you a highly productive DevOps Engineer, looking to 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?

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

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including in incident scenarios
• Proactively identify and raise methods of improving team efficiency and procedures to improve support to the customer
• Assisting with escalated issues and navigating scenarios across multiple teams
• Writing clean, scalable, and performant scripts & code
• Forming part of a regular on-call rotation supporting our customers and internal teams

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience working in the gaming industry having migrated a live service game in production.
• Knowledge of backend systems for online games and ideally exposure to game engines, Unity, Unreal etc.
• An excitement to expand your knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure and tools
• Automation knowledge on a wide variety of tools – Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, and Kubernetes, etc.
• Prior experience migrating a game from one Cloud provider onto AWS
• Excellent knowledge of containers, virtual machines and Linux server administration
• Demonstrable experience in programming or personal code-based projects.

Please note, initially, we will be looking at people with knowledge of the Games Industry.