DevOps Engineer

Code Wizards; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming infrastructure company in Reading is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to enhance their gaming service operations. The role involves troubleshooting customer infrastructure, improving procedures, and supporting game migration projects. Ideal candidates will possess strong programming skills, knowledge of backend systems and experience in the gaming industry. This permanent position includes opportunities to work with automation tools like Ansible and Terraform, ensuring seamless game online experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience working in the gaming industry having migrated a live service game.
• Knowledge of backend systems for online games and engines like Unity/Unreal.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux server administration.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot customer infrastructure and perform root cause analysis.
• Proactively suggest improvements to team efficiency and support.
• Assist with escalated issues across multiple teams.

Skills

Experience in gaming industry

Backend systems knowledge

Automation knowledge

Excellent knowledge of containers

Programming experience

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 sole responsibility is to help game studios to run and operate their game infrastructure seamlessly for the players.

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?

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

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.

Initially, we will be looking at people with knowledge of the Games Industry.