Lead DevOps Engineer
Lead DevOps Engineer
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Job Description
Within the Stillfront Group we have become the technology leader for online strategy games utilizing the crossplatform engine and infrastructure we have developed as a technical basis across studios.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will be leading our interdisciplinary team developing building and running our online games. You can expect a professional and international working environment covering great games and a wide scope of technologies:
In the backend our games share a selfbuilt Java game engine together with a containerized API written in PHP that we constantly extend and improve. Servers run on a distributed architecture in the Google Cloud and use MySQL for data storage.
In the DevOps engineering you will work with technologies and services like Terraform Helm ArgoCD Ansible AWX GitHub Actions DataDog Docker Grafana Sentry SonarQube Jenkins and production systems utilizing Google Kubernetes Engine Linux based VMs Nginx Redis Memcached.
The frontend engine currently uses a modern HTML5 / WebGL / TypeScript / Vue.js stack deployed to different kinds of platforms like desktop browser Steam iOS and Android
Existing and future games will transition to a Unitybased frontend. We launched our first game already and have more exciting upcoming releases planned for this year and beyond.
YOUR MISSION
- Lead and be part of an experienced and excellent DevOps team.
- Maintain our highavailability production systems by creatingstability andscalability.
- Analyze and optimize our highperformance / hightraffic systems on OS &application level.
- Spearhead tooling efforts by prototyping setting up establishing andfinetuning new tools to improve performance and our dev life.
- Maintain and improve the automated development processes and improvedevelopment workflows (Github Actions Helm ArgoCD Ansible DockerWebpack Fastlane etc..
- Collaborate closely with the game development community and productteams and our sister studios within theStillfront Group.
- Broaden your knowledge and deepen your skills through conferences andtraining and share your learnings with the team afterwards.
YOUR BACKSTORY
- Experience with leading a (DevOps) team and the ability to execute on aroadmap effectively and pragmatically.
- Excellent skills in IT maintenance database/network architecture systems integration as well as automation and system administration (Debian Linux).
- Experience with highload / highavailability systems and load optimizations.
- Experience with cloud systems (ideally Google Cloud) and connectedmanagement tools (i.e. Terraform / Kubernetes etc).
- Knowledge of stateoftheart build systems tech stacks and toolchains.Passion to extend your knowledge and try out new technologies.
- Good skills in Java or other highlevel programming languages.
- Experience in shipping developing and running at least one commercialproduct or game.
- Ability to articulate and document technical designs clearly and analytically.
- Fluent English both verbal and written.
Further desirable skills:
- Passion for video games.
- Knowledge of multiplayerPvP/online game development practices.
- Familiarity with agile software development and scrumbased working environments.
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Our team is diverse and international fostering a culture of open communication and flat hierarchies. We support the autonomous work of our agile teams ensuring each employee contributes meaningfully to our success. We believe in efficient work and collective achievement.
Employment Type
Full Time
