As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure for mobile games, ensuring performance, security, and continuous improvement while mentoring junior engineers.
Are you a highly skilled Cloud DevOps Engineer with a passion for gaming and a knack for building robust, scalable systems?
We're looking for an experienced individual to join our team at a leading mobile game developer. If you thrive in large, dynamic environments, possess exceptional communication skills, and have a deep expertise in AWS, we want to hear from you!
As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you'll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers our hit mobile games. You'll work closely with development teams to ensure our systems are highly available, performant, and secure, supporting millions of players worldwide.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage highly scalable and resilient infrastructure on AWS.
- Must be deep with automation, know Hashicorp Vault and/or AWS Secrets Manager, be able to develop/maintain custom APIs for authentication and authorization, provision AWS accounts, perform certificate monitoring, know OAuth 2.0/OIDC/SAML, and develop Go code for internal customer facing APIs.
- Maintain automation using GitOps, Argo CD, Terraform, Karpenter, and GitHub
- Administer and optimize Vault for secrets management and identity.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to provide infrastructure solutions that meet their needs.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed systems.
- Implement and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement in our infrastructure and operational practices.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders regarding infrastructure status, plans, and issues.
Requirements:
- Many years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer in large-scale production environments.
- Must have in-depth Golang.
- Deep expertise in AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53).
- Strong understanding of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Solid grasp of networking concepts, security best practices, and system internals.
- Proven ability to design and implement highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
- Needs to understand cloud engineering for a large org, taking into account privacy, security, compliance, high availability, and resilience.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
- A strong problem-solving mindset and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Bonus Points:
- Experience working in the gaming industry.
- Familiarity with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure).
- Knowledge of various database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
- Contributions to open-source projects.
Top Skills
Argo Cd
AWS
Docker
Git
Gitops
Go
Karpenter
Kubernetes
Oauth 2.0
Oidc
SAML
Terraform
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