DevOps Engineer - QDStaff

One of the world's leading mobile game studios is based in Las Vegas, NV hiring a DevOps engineer to support their game software development teams.

This role is to improve game development through DevOps and thereby facilitate the timely delivery of mobile games. The DevOps Engineer will manage and provide direct hands-on support to 4 game software development studios across North America. Individual will manage, develop and improve tools for the enhancement of the development operations. Will also support network, security and virtual server infrastructure using best-of-breed technologies as needed.

The DevOps team creates an innovative and collaborative work space for ideas, products and people to grow. The ideal individual has a track record of being passionate about leading-edge technologies, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking. 

Responsibilities

• Integrate and build automation tools for software development lifecycle (deployment, monitoring, and operations)
• Management / Re-provisioning of Development/Test Environments and maintenance (patches, O/S health)
• Maintain and administer our CI tools, GitLab integration for continuous build, test, and deployment
• Manage and integrate GitLab, JIRA, and TeamCity
• Research, evaluate and improve DevOps toolchain to automate and streamline our operations and processes
• Monitor system health with various tools and respond to alerts

 Required Experience

• Knowledge of automation and continuous integration (2+ years).
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines (1+ years).
• Managing performance, availability and scale for mid to large sized systems. (2+ years).
• Managing & maintaining networks, servers in a heterogenous environment (5+ years).
• Source Control Management (2+ years).
• Iterative/agile (e.g. SCRUM, XP) methodologies (1+ years).
• Required Up-To-Date Hands-On Expertise Configuring, Administering, Supporting, Deploying:
  • GitLab & Git Clients (or similar)
  • Kubernetes
  • PowerShell
  • GitLab CI / CD (or similar)
  • ProGet (or similar)
  • NPM
  • Docker

Optional/Desirable Expertise & Experience (similar product experience is acceptable):

Virtualization

• VMware vSphere 6/7 and Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Servers

• HP Proliant (or equivalent).

Windows Active Directory (2012+) in an Office 365 environment Microsoft Databases & Methodologies

• SQL Server (2012+) Administration.
• Power BI or equivalent.

Microsoft Azure

• SQL Databases, App Insights, Stream Analytics and Machine Learning.

Networking / Infrastructure

• Cisco / Dell Switches, Next-Gen Firewalls (Palo Alto) and EndPoint Security Management.

Workstations

• Windows 10 PCs, Macintosh and Linux.

Benefits:

• All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
• Zero deductible health care coverage
• 30 days sick time
• 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays
• 4% 401k match
• Eligible for 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance

Location:

• This role is based is in Las Vegas, NV
• It is in-office 5 days per week
• Relocation expenses are paid

About the company:

This four studio software engineering company is averaging a 25% annual employee growth rate. With a median tenure of almost 4 years, employees are embracing the opportunity to innovate and personally contribute to global hit games in the world's leading portfolio of games.

With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is adopting leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their games are achieving fast market penetration, high player satisfaction and superior quality.  They recruit for attitude and aptitude.  They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their distributed studio approach to growth.  You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development.