DevOps Engineer

Gaming Inovation Group

You will serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of gaming platform services. This can on day involve troubleshooting issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network, and other days, identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company.

Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design and drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services

Manage timely resolution of all critical and/or complex problems meeting SLA requirements

Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and all stakeholders

Develop, configure and optimize service and application monitoring and telemetry

Assist in the rollouts and deployment of new product features and installations

Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor applications and services in a large-scale environment

Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.

Qualifications

We see that you have a technology or business graduate degree, or equivalent experience and knowledge of IT governance and operations. Your background has given you a strong knowledge of current IT methodologies and systems technologies and standards. So you, in other words, always keeps IT security in mind in whatever you do.

Actively contributes SRE/DevOps best practices.
Passion to replace manual work with code that can enable a system to run itself, i.e. mindset of around the clock “eating”, “breathing”, and “sleeping” automation of everything.
Hands on experience including, but not limited to:
Excellent ability to script
Proven successful track record of running a multi-node/ multi-tier web application architectures
Experience with configuration management tool
Strong scripting ability
Familiarity with maintaining long-lived APIs
Experience in monitoring, reporting and alerting using industry leading tools
Test and build systems such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Maven, Ant.
Experience with cloud computing platforms and services such as OpenStack & AWS
Experience using Kubernetes / Docker / containers
Senior level experience supporting Linux and DB systems
Experience working with virtualization software
Proficient with TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures
Strong communication, negotiation, conflict resolution skills and ability to tackle a problem to completion.
Desire and ability to wear many hats (developer, engineer, specialist, troubleshooter, support, tester, inventor)
Strong analytical and decision making ability
Systems thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (big picture thinking)
Practical knowledge of various aspects of service design, including messaging protocols & behavior, caching strategies and software design practices
A working knowledge of Java would be a strong plus.
Experience of iGaming/internet games sectors is a plus.
Fluent spoken and written English