100% remote Gaming Studio

About the Studio:

Are you passionate about building action-packed RPG games? Our client is building multiple original IPs in Unreal Engine 4 & 5. Their current game that’s in the pre-production phase is a 3rd person looter shooter with a high fantasy stylized art.

Their founders are serial entrepreneurs and have helped build some of the best games of all time. Plus, they’re a fun group of people. For example, the CEO on the weekends is a professional DJ in Las Vegas. He also helped bring Diablo, Ratchet & Clank, and other major titles to the world.

Their studio and team is globally distributed and currently 100% remote.

About the position:

This position will become a part of our cloud infrastructure team that builds internal infrastructure, cloud services, deployment tooling and workflows to empower development teams across the company. Our mission is to bring next-generation tools and practices to game development and online game services. This is an opportunity for creating a developer-friendly CI/CD platform, working with Kubernetes, Helm charts and service mesh applications.

• Design and implement state of the art deployment tooling for online games

• Leverage emerging cloud technologies to provide self-service workflows that enable development teams to build, test, release, scale and support online games and services continuously, with high confidence

• Build applications to provide visibility and control of complex release workflows and deployments at scale

• Operate client's cloud platform and provide service owner support and participate in incident escalations

What are the minimum requirements for the position?

• Demonstrable scripting experience with a variety of scripting languages for automating tasks, generating reports, and creating tools (e.g. Go, Python, Shell)

• Administrative experience with CI/CD systems

• Proven experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure

• Created architecture for a service running in AWS that serves businesses or the public at scale

• Hands-on experience with network administration: VPCs, ACLs, subnets, peering, DNS knowledge etc.

• Infrastructure as code experience with CloudFormation or Terraform

• Experience with RESTful services, and familiarity with NoSQL/SQL database concepts

• Kubernetes domain expertise

• Operating Kubernetes clusters with applications at scale

• Experience of implementing deployment scripts with deployment models for Kubernetes services

• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization

• You are familiar with service meshes and secure service to service communications

What’s going to earn you brownie points?

• Familiarity with metrics and logging tools (eg. New Relic, SumoLogic, Grafana)

• Experience with Linux and Docker internals

• Experience working on a globally distributed team

• Working at scale

• Passion for gaming