Job Overview
Does the challenge of working on a new AAA unannounced project excite you? Here at DPS Games you can do exactly that. We are based in Guildford, self-publishing our own title, and are fully funded by Wargaming, one of the biggest publishers of F2P games in the world. Our studio leadership are industry veterans, and we believe we’re building a great studio culture in the best studio space in Guildford. If you think you have the talent to join a world class team, we’d love you to join us!
Reports to
This role reports to the Technical Director
What will you do?
1. Manage, mentor and train team of DevOps and Build engineers
2. Optimize DevOps practices and methodologies for efficiency and scalability
3. Plan and architect project's development, staging and production infrastructure
4. Guide career development of the team members
5. Oversee incident management and troubleshooting
6. Ensure 24/7 game clusters operation
7. Write documentation and SOPs
8. Cooperate with technical, QA, live-ops and release teams to provide stable and in-time version releases
What are we looking for?
9. Experience working as Lead DevOps Engineer, DevOps Team Lead or similar role
10. Experience operating high load systems/products in production
11. Scripting and/or programming experience with Python and Bash
12. Experience automating infrastructure deployment and managing scalable applications using Kubernetes in a CI/CD environment
13. Strong experience with public cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
14. Configuration management experience (Ansible, Puppet)
15. Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools (Teamcity, Jenkins, Gitlab)
16. Experience in optimizing performance and cost management in cloud environments
17. Experience building monitoring and logging systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki)
18. Experience in managing databases RDBMS and NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB
What additional skills will help you stand out?
19. Experience in operating session-based multiplayer games
20. Programming using one of the following languages: Python, C/C++, Java/Kotlin
21. Strong background in Linux administration
22. Working with DevSecOps practices
Work mode
Hybrid (3 days of work from the office)
Benefits
Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Guildford include:
23. 5 weeks of Annual Leave per calendar year
24. Dog-friendly office
25. Onsite canteen (with an endless supply of snacks and drinks)
26. Video game areas
27. Health Insurance (including family coverage), Life Insurance, Pension contribution
28. Mental well-being program (iFeel)
29. Wellbeing perks (Mental Health Days, Dedicated Well-being room, Team of Mental Heath First Aiders)
30. Career development and education opportunities within the company
31. Employee discounts
32. Personal Gaming Account
33. Company events
34. Seniority Awards
35. Referral program - you can recommend the best talents to the Company and receive a reward
36. Working in one of the main European hubs for game development
37. Startup within a company with 25 years of experience on the market
38. To learn more about our studio in Guildford, follow this link: https://dpsgames.com/studio