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At Scopely we are searching for a driven DevOps Lead to join the platform team, who will be in charge of defining the DevOps roadmap, fostering the DevOps culture and providing the different infrastructure needs for the company in Barcelona.

As part of the platform, you will join a great team of engineers who provide technology to help studios build and operate games faster and better. Scopely’s slate of live and future titles are built on a common technology platform, which enables the business to scale to millions of DAU, provides powerful tools to manage and operate the live games, and accelerates development.

With over 100M+ users across seven #1 mobile games, a career at Scopely offers countless ways to have a huge impact working with a collaborative team of engineers. Our team at Scopely is building systems to support millions of players in dozens of top mobile games, helping us understand how to improve each title and the in-game experience of each player. We enjoy challenging work, but try to find simple solutions. When you join our growing team, you can expect to own your work from ideation and product definition through production deployment and continued feature maturation. We’re looking for people who take pride in their work and seeing it impact real people.

Note: This position is located in Barcelona, Spain.

What you will do:

  • Lead and grow a team of passionate DevOps Engineers
  • Define and lead the execution of a DevOps strategy and a DevOps roadmap to continuously improve the platform cloud infrastructure and processes
  • Provide tooling to standardise and ease the development and monitoring of scalable and reliable production systems.
  • Work together with several engineering teams to define and implement improvements to their overall infrastructure, including execution engine (Kubernetes), infrastructure automation, deployment systems and underlying AWS configuration.
  • Promote and contribute to a devops culture where teams are autonomous and are able to fully support their own services by providing know-how, general guidance and engaging engineers to contribute to the devops ecosystem.

What you will need:

  • Ability to manage a team of committed and creative engineers
  • Experience working closely with end users and customers (mostly engineers) to build infrastructure capabilities that are adapted to their needs
  • Experience designing and building reliable and fault tolerant, yet simple and easy to operate applications and systems
  • Understanding of agile principles and practices and experience working on an agile environment
  • Full professional command of English
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Degree in computer science, engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
  • At least 5 years of relevant work experience

And if you have some of the below skills, we definitely want to hear from you!

  • Expertise in one or more of Java, Go, Python, or other scripting languages
  • Containers and Kubernetes cluster management experience
  • Infrastructure management (Cloudformation, Terraform, etc.)
  • Application deployment and monitoring (Spinnaker, Datadog, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with and understanding of AWS services
  • Site Reliability knowledge and experience managing highly available services
  • Automation tools (Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
  • Software development knowledge focused on tools (CLI)

About Scopely:

Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding, immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform that personalizes gameplay at scale across one of the most diversified portfolios in the west. Recognized in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and #2 on Deloitte’s ‘Technology Fast 500’ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Scopely has achieved more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue by creating game experiences that are an important part of people’s lives. Scopely has global operations in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin (DIGIT game studio), London and Tokyo, with additional studios in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com.Scopely is the leading mobile entertainment network, and our tools have played a critical part in changing how the future of mobile games will be produced and distributed. With over 100M+ users across seven #1 mobile games, a career at Scopely offers countless ways to have a huge impact on a small and collaborative team of engineers.

Scopely is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, family or parental status, gender identity, veteran, or disability status, or other protected status.

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