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Job summary
A leading gaming infrastructure company in the UK is seeking a Contract DevOps Engineer to help manage and migrate game infrastructure. In this role, you will diagnose issues, improve team processes, and write efficient scripts. Ideal candidates have experience in the gaming industry, a solid understanding of backend systems, and automation skills with tools like Ansible and Terraform. The position offers the opportunity to work on exciting projects in a dynamic environment.
Qualifications
- Experience migrating a live service game in production.
- Exposure to game engines like Unity or Unreal.
- Demonstrated experience in clean code writing.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and analyze customer infrastructure issues.
- Identify and improve team efficiency.
- Assist with escalated issues across teams.
- Write scalable and performant scripts.
- Participate in on-call rotation.
Skills
Tools
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 Contract DevOps Engineering talent to join the team 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.
- 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
- 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.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.