DevOps Engineer

Code Wizards Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming infrastructure provider in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for a Contract DevOps Engineer to support game migration projects. The ideal candidate will have experience in the gaming industry, with strong DevOps skills and a passion for automation. Responsibilities include diagnosing infrastructure issues, improving team efficiency, and writing scalable code. This role is crucial for keeping games online and operational, providing opportunity for growth within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Experience working in the gaming industry with a live service game.
• Knowledge of backend systems for online games, including game engines.
• Ability to automate using various tools.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure.
• Identifying methods to improve team efficiency.
• Writing clean, scalable, and performant scripts.

Skills

Gaming industry experience

Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kubernetes)

Linux server administration

Programming knowledge

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.