Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote) - Hosting

Hamilton Barnes; Greater London; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own systems across server allocation, infrastructure management, deployments, scaling, and backend services from architecture through to production operation.

The ideal candidate will drive technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor other engineers in a fast-growing game server hosting environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Professional experience running multiplayer or other real-time online services in production.
• Strong understanding of dedicated game servers and multiplayer networking.
• Deep knowledge of Linux, networking (TCP/UDP, load balancing, DNS, firewalls), and Docker.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
• Experience designing highly available systems, asynchronous workflows, and production APIs.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins).
• Strong scripting or programming ability in at least one language (Go, Python, Bash).

Responsibilities

• Architect multiplayer server orchestration, allocation, scheduling, and lifecycle systems.
• Manage infrastructure across regions, including autoscaling, placement, health checks, and failure recovery.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, rollout and rollback processes, and release tooling.
• Plan capacity and manage provisioning across cloud and bare-metal environments.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code for bare-metal compute, networking and storage.
• Run and tune Kubernetes clusters, container runtimes, and host-level configuration.
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health, capacity, allocation latency, and infrastructure failures.
• Lead technical design for major platform initiatives.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Linux

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Jenkins

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?

Join a game server hosting company founded in 2011 by two friends with a shared passion for gaming and technology, built around customer experience and advanced product features. With 24/7/365 support from a team spread across four continents and 20 server locations worldwide, it keeps latency low and makes hosting simple for its clients.

The organization is currently on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own systems across server allocation, infrastructure management, deployments, scaling, and backend services, from architecture through to production operation. The ideal candidate will also help set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Architect multiplayer server orchestration, allocation, scheduling, and lifecycle systems
• Manage infrastructure across regions, including autoscaling, placement, health checks, and failure recovery
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, rollout and rollback processes, and release tooling
• Plan capacity and manage provisioning across cloud and bare-metal environments
• Write and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code for bare-metal compute, networking and storage
• Run and tune Kubernetes clusters, container runtimes, and host-level configuration
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health, capacity, allocation latency, and infrastructure failures
• Lead technical design for major platform initiatives

Skills/Must have:

• Extensive professional experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Professional experience running multiplayer or other real-time online services in production
• Strong understanding of dedicated game servers and multiplayer networking
• Deep knowledge of Linux, networking (TCP/UDP, load balancing, DNS, firewalls), and Docker
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer
• Experience designing highly available systems, asynchronous workflows, and production APIs
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins)
• Strong scripting or programming ability in at least one language (e.g. Go, Python, Bash)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance

Salary:

• £65,000-£95,000 or $90,000-$130,000 Basic Salary Per Annum