Sr Cloud Engineer | 6-month FTC

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Job Description:

Are you inspired by the idea of delivering a smooth gaming experience to 260 million players

We are hiring for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Platform Team! This is a 6-month FTC covering parental leave.

We are responsible for developing and maintaining the GKE Platform for all our team we focus on reliability performance and scalabilityour platform supports an average traffic of millions of requests per second from all our beloved games. We work closely with Kings teams to support game feature development handle intense traffic events and highly concurrent data our daily work we promote creativity and innovation by adopting the latest technologies and constantly improving and evolving our platform.

Shared Tech is the engine that powers all our live games. With the aim of providing the best possible experience for our developers and creators as well as our hundreds of millions of players our extensive team is integral to deliver Kings mission of Making the World Playful. Dedicated to keeping our talented game makers productive we enable the Kingdom to create build launch and operate every King game across a vast number of platforms and mobile devices. We are the stage where King games love to perform!

Your role within the Kingdom

• Youll partner closely with game and platform teams to deploy games/services on our GKE platform via self-service capabilities standard patterns and guardrails that accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and security
• Manage and optimize GKE clusters for high reliability scalability and efficiency
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Crossplane for repeatable deployments
• Design scalable systems for 260 million players ensuring performance and availability
• Oversee cloud networking (Shared VPC Cloud Armor Firewalls BGP/peering IPv6 Kubernetes networking Cloud Router/Interconnect VPN)
• Manage Istio service mesh Google Cloud load balancing and large-scale networks to support millions of requests/sec
• Manage cloud services (Cloud SQL BigQuery Pub/Sub Secret Manager Workload Identity Spanner) for game teams
• Build/extend compute platforms and automation tools to streamline game backend operations
• Automate CI/CD with CloudBuild Jenkins Atlantis ArgoCD for seamless deployments
• Implement security-first infrastructure to ensure stability and compliance
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents to improve resilience and scalability
• Support the full game backend lifecycle from initial deployment to high-traffic live operations
• Mentor engineers lead critical projects and foster an open fun and innovative culture

Skills to create thrills

• Cloud Networking: Expertise in BGP/peering IPv6 Kubernetes networking Cloud Router/Interconnect VPN NAT BeyondCorp IAP
• Kubernetes & Cloud: Hands-on GKE management cluster optimization scaling and troubleshooting
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise with Terraform and Crossplane for automating cloud infrastructure
• CI/CD & GitOps: Proficiency with Cloud Build CloudBees CDRO Jenkins Atlantis ArgoCD for automated deployments
• Monitoring & Observability: Experience with OTel Grafana Prometheus for full-stack visibility
• Cloud Resource Management: Experience managing Cloud SQL BigQuery Pub/Sub Secret Manager Workload Identity
• Security & Governance: Deep understanding of cloud security IAM zero-trust networking and secrets management
• Scalability & Resilience: Ability to design highly scalable resilient game infrastructure with automation
• Troubleshooting & Reliability: Expertise in debugging distributed systems finding root causes and enhancing reliability
• Leadership & Collaboration: Excellent communication mentoring and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Passion for Gaming & Innovation: Eager to leverage cutting-edge cloud technology for gaming

Our award-winning culture and sweet benefits

What makes King a great place to work is our playful culture work-life balance and a growth mindset focused on learning every day. And dont just take our word for it weve featured in both Newsweeks Most Loved Workplaces and the Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

Our sweet benefits and perks support you to get your best work done and have fun along the way. These include:

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the worlds most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has Kingsters in Stockholm Malmö London Barcelona Berlin Dublin San Francisco New York Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.