DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes & Cloud Services)
Company: Intrepid Studios
Location: San Diego
Posted on: May 28, 2023
Job Description:
We are obsessed with crafting a unique MMO, if you're up for the
challenge, let's make it glorious together! - -Intrepid Studios'
Ashes of Creation team is looking for a highly motivated and
talented -DevOps Engineer to join us, here in beautiful Southern
California. This is a great opportunity to unleash your creativity
and partner with talented game veterans to craft a unique MMORPG
experience that helps bring people together. -
-Responsibilities:
- Manage existing Kubernetes clusters deployed on both GCP (GKE)
and AWS (EKS).
- Manage deployment of cloud services, like databases, message
brokers, caching components, other cluster resources, and custom
applications.
- Manage Kubernetes and cloud service updates.
- Maintain and improve local development environment and cloud
deployment scripts.
- Manage cloud monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for
fine-grained observability and actionable alerting.
- Manage system backup and failure recovery.
- Deploy data analysis tools and visual dashboards to quickly and
easily assess system health.
- Identify and troubleshoot system issues, provide timely updates
to key stakeholders, and ensure system uptime.
- Provide analysis of system performance during playtests and
other system tests.
- Document deployment, operating, and troubleshooting
procedures.
- Coordinate internal and 3rd-party maintenance windows,
providing internal and external status.
- Implement devops best practices, with a focus on
automation.
Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related
field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Expertise managing complex production Kubernetes clusters at
scale.
- Passion for Kubernetes and expertise in modern usage.
- Experience with both GCP and AWS cloud providers.
- Experience with Helm and Docker.
- Experience administering SQL and NoSQL databases like
CockroachDB and MongoDB.
- Experience with metrics frameworks like Prometheus and
Grafana.
- Experience with enterprise logging services like Datadog.
- Experience with common programming environments like Python,
Go, and Javascript.
- Experience with advanced Linux administration, including
network stack, TCP/IP, DNS, filesystems, resource scheduling, and
process management.
- Ability to solve service issues, under pressure, on a
production system.
- Individual drive and team commitment, an analytical mind, and a
bias for action.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Additional Considerations (Pluses):
- Game industry experience, specifically with deploying backend
game services at scale.
- Experience with game orchestration platforms such as
Agones.
- Experience with hybrid orchestration technologies such as
Rancher and OpenShift.
- Experience with network traffic analysis tools
- Experience with Unreal Engine and associated tools
-Interview Overview:Below you'll find an outline of the interview
plan for this role. Please note that while this is what we expect
the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental
information or require an additional step before making a final
decision.
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- 30 min interview with the hiring manager
- Test
- Panel interviews with several members of the hiring team
- Final interview with the executive team
- References calls & a background checkThe Legal Bits:We offer
competitive pay based on market standards plus a significant annual
bonus structure. The base salary for this role is between $98,000 -
$137,200, depending on skills and experience. Individual
compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including
experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative
to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates
who are offered roles at our company to fall throughout the range
based on these factors.Job descriptions are not designed to cover
or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or
responsibilities that may be required of the employee.We encourage
individuals from all backgrounds, including race, gender identity,
sexual orientation, disability status, to apply for positions. We
are an equal opportunity employer and we're committed to a fair and
consistent interview process and employer experience.About
Us:Founded in 2015, Intrepid Studios is the independent developer
and publisher of the upcoming and Most Anticipated MMORPG, Ashes of
Creation. Based in beautiful Southern California, Intrepid has
assembled a veteran AAA team of tremendous talent and experience in
the MMORPG industry. -The gaming industry can be a turbulent storm
of hiring cycles and layoffs. We've set out to do something
different, to break this cycle and create an independent studio
capable of withstanding the chaos of this industry. We've brought
on-board a team of professionals that hold a diverse set of skills,
and who all share a singular goal: making fun games. The studio is
designed to be an open place for collaboration and communication, a
place that is conducive to team building and success. Our goal is
to build a family that will laugh together, play together, succeed
together, and stay together.All posted positions are full-time
-with generous medical benefit -options covered 100% by employer
for employees and dependents plus -paid vacation & sick days, and
401k with matching. -We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity
Employer.
We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity
for all employees and to providing employees with a work
environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment
decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and
individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion
or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including
pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV
Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression,
marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or
present military service, family medical history or genetic
information, family or parental status, or any other status
protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we
operate. Intrepid Studios will not tolerate discrimination or
harassment based on any of these characteristics. Applicants of all
ages, identities, and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Intrepid
Studios will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have
protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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unsolicited agency resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be
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