DevOps Engineer

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

Job summary

Code Wizards Group is a world leader in backend and multiplayer infrastructure for the gaming industry. Multiplayer Wizards is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join permanently, focusing on game migration work.

You will apply your DevOps expertise to keep live services online and to educate others in the team. Expect to work with automation, cloud migrations to AWS, and a broad mix of toolkit including Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, and Grafana, in a fast-paced gaming environment.

Qualifications

• Experience migrating a live service game in production.
• Knowledge of backend systems for online games and exposure to game engines (Unity/Unreal).
• Willingness to expand knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure and tools.
• Automation experience with a wide range of tools (Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kubernetes).
• Prior experience migrating games between cloud providers, e.g. to AWS.
• Excellent knowledge of containers, VMs and Linux server administration.
• Programming experience or personal coding projects.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including incidents.
• Identify improvements to team efficiency and customer support processes.
• Assist with escalated issues across multiple teams.
• Write clean, scalable, and performant scripts & code.
• Be part of regular on-call rotation supporting customers and internal teams.

Skills

Gaming industry experience

Backend systems for online games

Containers & Linux administration

Scripting / code writing

On-call & incident response

Automation and tooling

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 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.