Senior DevOps Engineer

HellaGoodAudio; Elgin, Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Code Wizards, a leader in Game and Esports Tech, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to support game migrations and keep live services online. You’ll educate teammates and act as an escalation point for complex issues, collaborating with internal teams and customers to ensure uptime.

The role emphasizes live-service expertise, Linux/container proficiency, and automation across tools. Hybrid work: three days onsite at the Elgin studio and two days remote.

Qualifications

• Experience in the gaming industry with a live service game in production.
• Strong knowledge of online game backend systems and engines (Unity/Unreal).
• Excited to learn unfamiliar infrastructure and tools.
• Automation experience across a range of tools including Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and perform root cause analysis on customer infrastructure during incidents.
• Identify improvements to team efficiency and support procedures.
• Assist with escalated issues across multiple teams.
• Write clean, scalable scripts and code for automation.
• Participate in regular on-call rotation to support customers and teams.

Skills

Live service games

Backend systems

Game engines

Automation tools

AWS migration

Containers & Linux

Programming projects

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Job description

Code Wizards are one of the world's leaders in Game and Esports Tech. We're in a period of growth and looking to bolster our DevOps capabilities by adding more engineers to our team.

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 Senior 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 the 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 worked on 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 live 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.

The position offers flexible working hours, with a schedule from Monday to Friday that also includes participation in an on-call rota. It follows a hybrid working model, requiring three days per week onsite at the Elgin studio and two days working remotely.

Initially, we will be looking at people with previous experience within the Video Games Industry.