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About this Role

At Fandom, a Staff DevOps Engineer will be part of our Fandom Tabletop Operations team. D&D Beyond is the official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition and aims to enhance the D&D experience by making game management easier for players both at the table and between sessions. Players can create, manage, and keep track of characters, as well as browse all of the official rules in the compendium. We’re also giving players the ability to create custom homebrew content to use in the toolset.

Our Fandom Tabletop Operations team is seeking an experienced operations engineer to join the Tabletop RPG team at Fandom and work on digital companions for the world’s greatest role-playing games. We are excited to take the next steps in realizing our extensive vision for Tabletop gaming—continuing to bring the most convenience, customization, and captivation to the TRPG community we can.

You Will...

  • Demonstrate team ownership over individual silos.
  • Establish working relationships with all other teams in the organization.
  • Aren’t afraid to experiment, fail, and learn from your mistakes.
  • Consider the big picture and think long term about solutions.
  • Understand best practices regarding application performance and stability.
  • Seek out and offer constructive feedback.
  • Write maintainable, high-quality infrastructure as code in a team-based development environment
  • Use a shared code base with peer reviews and pull requests
  • Assist with improving code integration and deployment processes
  • Participate and occasionally lead planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
  • Adhere to and improve processes and coding standards
  • Create and maintain project documentation
  • Work in an environment where you have a direct influence on product and technical decisions
  • Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
  • Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
  • Learn from and mentor other passionate engineers with diverse skill sets in a collaborative team environment
  • Participate in on-call duties on a rotational basis.
  • Are comfortable challenging team members and the status quo.
  • Delight millions of D&D and Cortex players who are eager to use our products

You Have...

  • Solid experience with scaling and monitoring production infrastructure for heavy user load, e.g. 1,000,000+ monthly active users.
  • Experience using AWS services to manage globally distributed infrastructure.
  • Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • 7+ years of DevOps, System Operations, or Site Reliability experience.
  • Proficient with networking protocols (OSI network layers, TCP/IP).
  • Proficient knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools such as AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins, Travis CI, Atlassian Bamboo.
  • Excellent skills in the following:
    • AWS / cloud infrastructure management and deployment
    • Terraform / Cloudformation
    • Linux & Windows administration
    • Web presentation, proxies and reverse proxy
    • Site Reliability and Monitoring tools (Statuscake, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, etc)
    • Docker / Kubernetes
    • SQL / MySQL / NoSQL
    • Python / bash / etc. scripting

Bonus Points if You Have...

  • AWS certification(s)
  • Working knowledge of programming languages including C# and JavaScript (Node.js, Typescript, .NET, React, etc.)
  • Run or played in your own Dungeons and Dragons or Cortex games.

Benefits & Perks

  • Stock options
  • Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
  • 401k Plan (+matching)
  • Flexible time off - flexible and generous
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Support

About Fandom

Fandom is the world’s largest fan platform where fans immerse themselves in imagined worlds across entertainment and gaming. Reaching more than 315 million unique visitors per month and hosting more than 250,000 wikis, Fandom is the #1 source for in-depth information on pop culture, gaming, TV and film, where fans learn about and celebrate their favorite fandoms.

Fandom is an Equal Opportunity Employer.