DevOps Engineer Position
Sun Machine Games is a video game company that is focused on creating amazingly fun multiplayer games based on original IP. The company was founded in 2018 by 4 industry veterans, each with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Above all else, we all just love making games. In 2019, we are excited to grow our team to build our very first AAA title.
Who are we looking for?
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. As part of the team you will be directly involved in creating a new IP. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who is passionate about creating world class game experiences for players around the world.
What are some of the tasks you will be doing?
As a DevOps Engineer, you will :
- Collaborate with engineers, artists and designers to develop new game features for all aspects of the game, gameplay, network, monetization, etc.
- Be a key part in planning and building infrastructure and systems for our backend team
- Create, maintain and operate cloud infrastructure
- Design and implement infrastructure as code
- Manage and monitor all cloud instances and backend components
- Routinely inspect architecture and deployment for speed and cost optimization
- Help maintain the live game and debug and deploy fixes and enhancements
What are the qualifications for this position?
We are looking for someone that has:
- 5+ years professional operational and development experience
- Proficient with scripts to automate solutions (Python, bash, batch, etc)
- Experience working with databases at scale, good understanding of SQL and NOSQL
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration - experience with K8s required
- Good knowledge and experience of cloud platforms and related technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Knowledge of logging, tracing and monitoring tools (eg : Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaegger)
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
Bonus Points
- Experience building apps for iOS and Android platforms
- Knowledge of mobile free-to-play games and monetization techniques
- Knowledge of game server deployment and management services (eg : Agones, Gamelift, FlexMatch)
Please note that we're currently only looking for applicants who are able to work in Canada at this time.