Infrastructure & LiveOps Engineer

City State Entertainment; Bothell (WA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Unchained Entertainment is seeking an Infrastructure & LiveOps Engineer to maintain and scale the game’s core infrastructure for Camelot Unchained. You will own the CI/CD pipelines, LiveOps monitoring, and IaC to support developers across all teams.

The role is remote only, requiring Linux/Windows administration, containerization, and cloud observability tools; bonus for Graphite, Grafana, Prometheus, and GitLab/Jenkins.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux and Windows administration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines; bonus points for Jenkins.
• Experience with source control; bonus points for GitLab.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools; Terraform bonus.
• Familiarity with C#, C++, PowerShell, and JS.
• Experience with metrics servers; bonus points for Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Experience with cloud services; bonus points for GCP.

Responsibilities

• Own continuous integration and deployment pipeline; add functionality and extend automation.
• Own LiveOps monitoring and alerting; maintain health coverage on critical systems.
• Own Infrastructure as Code; provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure to support team efforts.
• Support bug, performance, and crash investigations by auditing crash dumps, logs, and metrics.

Skills

Linux administration

Windows administration

Container deployment

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

GitLab

Terraform

C#

C++

PowerShell

JavaScript

Graphite

Grafana

Prometheus

GCP

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Terraform

Graphite

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

We are looking for an Infrastructure & LiveOps Engineer to help support and maintain the overall game system infrastructure of Camelot Unchained and work collaboratively with team members across different departments at UCE.

Responsibilities

• Own continuous integration and deployment pipeline. Add functionality, investigate broken or stalled jobs, improve and extend automation.
• Own LiveOps monitoring and alerting. Ensure health coverage on critical systems, maintain and refine alerts.
• Own Infrastructure as Code, provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure to support team efforts.
• Support bug, performance, and crash investigations by auditing crash dumps, logs, and metrics.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Linux and Windows administration
• Experience customizing and deploying container images to multiple environments
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, bonus points for Jenkins
• Experience with source control, bonus points for GitLab
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and techniques, bonus points for Terraform
• Familiarity with C#, C++, Powershell, and JS
• Experience with metrics servers, bonus points for Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with cloud services, bonus points for GCP

Bonus

• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Zookeeper
• Experience with Etcd
• Experience with certificate management
• Experience with managing VPNs and Strongswan
• Experience with Active Directory

Additional Information

Unchained Entertainment is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an emphatic equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. This role is remote only.

Company Description

Unchained Entertainment is an independent video game development studio founded in March 2011. We are currently developing Camelot Unchained, a niche, RvR-focused, old-school MMORPG inspired by large-scale realm warfare and player-driven worlds.