Our client is looking for a Publishing Sr. DevOps Engineer to do great things for a record-breaking crowd-funded game title that combines classic space sim gameplay with amazing visuals.

The Publishing Sr. DevOps Engineer will work in a cross-disciplinary team environment interfacing with various leads and stakeholders to make the deployment and management of the clients game service efficient and durable.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineers from various disciplines to help design, implement, and maintain massively scalable and highly reliable systems
• Serve as a point of technical escalation
• Interface with Lead/Principal Engineers and stakeholders of different disciplines across the organization
• Research and implement toolsets to enhance our software delivery pipelines
• Campaign for DevOps best practices within the organization
• Mentor junior team members
• Share on-call responsibility with Publishing Technology team members
• Document systems and processes

Requirements:

• Established background in Software Development or System Engineering
• Solid knowledge of GNU/Linux resources monitoring tools and /proc
• Proficient understanding of Virtualization and Containerization concepts
• Solid understanding of OSI model & IP networking including subnetting, routing, tunneling and load balancing
• Good Understanding of modern Database systems internals. E.g. indexing, replication, sharding and clustering
• Good understanding of Security principles including Encryption, IDS/IPS & common DDOS attacks anatomy
• Good understanding of Service-oriented Architectures, Container-based deployment, Microservices and Service Mesh concepts, solutions and Design Patterns
• Professional experience in DevOps/SRE teams supporting production environments on public clouds
• Extensive experience authoring and integrating Software delivery pipelines and toolsets using languages like Bash, Python & Golang
• Extensive Experience with modern provisioning, configuration management, packaging, service discovery, and/or orchestration tools e.g. SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Etcd, Consul, etc.
• Hands-on experience in Production environments utilizing Distributed In-memory Data Stores, Real-Time Streaming Data Pipelines, Distributed Search, and/or Analytics Engine solutions, in Production e.g. Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Operational experience managing and packaging containerized production workloads on Kubernetes using Helm
• Maintain Team-first, Continuous Improvement, Clear Communication, Humility, Integrity, and Customer-focused mindsets
• International travel may be required

Pluses:

• Experience in Game Publishing and/or running HPC workloads
• Code and/or feedback contribution to Open Source projects
• Advanced understanding of TCP and UDP internals
• Operational experience with large scale Kubernetes clusters e.g. 1000+ nodes
• Experience implementing Kubernetes controllers/operators
• Advanced understanding of CRI, CSI & CNI internals
• Operational experience with Service Mesh deployments e.g. Istio & Linkerd in Production
• Operational experience with gRPC and HTTP/2 services in production
• Familiarity with C++, compilers, and debuggers
• AWS, GCP or CNCF recent certifications

This position is offered at their Austin Studio