DevOps Engineer

Code Wizards Group; Theale; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Code Wizards Group’s Multiplayer Wizards unit seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to join permanently, focusing on game migration work. You’ll use your deep DevOps experience to keep game infrastructure online, educate teammates, and act as an escalation point during incidents.

You will diagnose complex issues, automate across tools, and work across internal teams and customers to ensure seamless live operations for online games.

Qualifications

• Experience migrating a live service game in production.
• Knowledge of backend systems for online games and exposure to game engines (Unity/Unreal).
• Automation across tools using common DevOps tech.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including incident scenarios.
• Proactively identify and raise methods to improve team efficiency and procedures.
• Assisting with escalated issues across multiple teams.
• Writing clean, scalable, and performant scripts & code.
• Forming part of a regular on‑call rotation.

Skills

DevOps

Gaming industry

Backend systems

Cloud migration AWS

Scripting

Containers

Linux administration

Programming

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

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 responsibility is to help game studios launch and run their games seamlessly.

Multiplayer Wizards are in search of a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team permanently, 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.