Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Job

If you want to build develop and see your impact join Skillz and level up your Career!

Skillz the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair enjoyable and meaningful competition.

At Skillz we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple Amazon Google Microsoft Tesla Twitter (X) Roblox Zynga Samsung Lyft EA Riot Nexon Gameskraft PlayStation Unity Scopely Tinder Intel Deloitte EY Twitch DraftKings Wynn Resorts and more Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move!

Responsibilities:
As a member of DevOps team you will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of the infrastructure and tooling within Skillz:

• Strong Kubernetes Terraform and AWS expertise to build secure and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Implement application-level security through static code analysis vulnerability scanning and secure coding practices.
• Design and manage secure infrastructure including IAM networking container security and environment hardening.
• Integrate automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous compliance and safe deployments.
• Monitor identify and remediate vulnerabilities across applications and infrastructure with quick incident response.

Key Competencies

• Programming & Automation: Strong in Golang or Python for automating infrastructure CI/CD and security workflows.
• Kubernetes & Container Security: Expertise in securing and managing containerized workloads K8s APIs RBAC PodSecurity Ingress/Egress and Istio service mesh.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Security: In-depth knowledge of AWS/GCP including IAM KMS WAF and network segmentation.
• CI/CD & DevSecOps: Experience embedding SAST SCA DAST and IaC scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD).
• Vulnerability & Runtime Security: Skilled in Trivy Checkov Falco compliance and runtime detection.
• Communication & Collaboration: Clear in articulating security challenges and solutions across engineering and leadership teams.
• Operational Excellence: Drives improvements in SLAs MTTR and security KPIs through automation and proactive monitoring.
• Continuous Learning: Up-to-date with OWASP NIST CIS and modern DevSecOps practices; promotes a shift-left security culture

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 4 years of industry experience designing and implementing successful large scale infrastructure on public clouds (AWS)
• 3 years of Kubernetes Gitops experience managing and operating containerized applications/systems in production
• Proven ability to integrate and manage SAST SCA DAST and IaC scanning tools (e.g. SonarQube Snyk Checkov Trivy) within Jenkins / GitHub Actions / ArgoCD pipelines.
• Experience in securing microservices and containerized workloads implementing PodSecurity RBAC NetworkPolicies and enforcing mTLS / Istio controls across multiple ingress points.
• In-depth understanding of IAM KMS VPC segmentation WAF CloudTrail GuardDuty and security posture management tools.
• Experience with Cloud-Native Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) frameworks (ArgoCD Github Actions)
• Experience implementing policy-as-code frameworks (OPA Kyverno Conftest) and automating SOX / PCI / ISO 27001 control validation within CI/CD.
• Have the ability to work in a dynamic agile development environment as members of the team play a role in the entire life cycle of development.
• Ability to debug complex issues across build pipelines Kubernetes environments and cloud resources with precision and speed.

Location: Bangalore

• Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders creators innovators and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz we create value obsess over our product and make a difference in the world.

• Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives including meditation and mental health resources physical fitness coaching and classes family planning assistance health and parenting guidance virtual therapy sessions and more.

• Time off: We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays including a company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years to help you recharge and pursue your passions.

• Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies CNBCs Disruptor 50 San Francisco Business Times Best Places to Work Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list and many more.

• Development Opportunities: We hold our employees to high standards while providing them with professional growth opportunities. We operate like a startup and encourage all of our employees to collaborate and voice feedback about our product and ways we can improve as a business. We believe in never settling and that also pertains to your growth.

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