Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title

Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Cloud Infrastructure Engineers at Product Madness live and breathe in production looking for opportunities to improve reliability through observability, engaging with the technical groups. We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our Infrastructure Group. The ideal candidate will take part in creating the next generation of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and our DevOps practices & culture inside Product Madness, using cutting edge modern technologies.

The successful applicant for this position will be a person with relevant experience, highly motivated and a team player.

Leading on incident response and taking ownership of Post-Mortems, the Cloud Engineers are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other production systems running smoothly. Cloud Engineers apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to the platform.

The key to the Cloud Engineers group's success is engagement across teams, contributing to the development and operation of games and services which meet reliability targets.

Product Madness is growing fast, which means as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will have to balance speed to production while maintaining focus on crucial reliability metrics and processes.

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will be a key member of the leadership team as we implement and improve our Engineering best practice across the business

What You'll Do

Responsibilities

Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.

Plan and support the growth of Product Madness Infrastructure.

Design, Build and maintain multiple environments on GCP using infrastructure as a code approach.

Design, Implement and manage the CI/CD processes up to production environments.

Researching and Implementing new technologies to expand engineering capabilities in both production and development environments.

Make important technical decisions in the designing, creating and maintaining Product Madness's Cloud Infrastructure.

Containerizing our services and managing them with leading orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes).

Design and manage Product Madness's auto-scaling mechanism to help us manage Millions of customers around the world in a modern and scalable way.

Interface and work closely with various R&D Groups (Architects, Principal Engineers Developers, Product Managers).

Be part of product architectural and infrastructure design - Pay attention to both infrastructure and security aspects.

Maintaining, optimising and automating processes in a large scale of production environments.

Supporting other Engineers & Developers by providing necessary training, advice and mentorship.

Support production environments - troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact availability, and provide support for Cloud Operation Engineers

What We're Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

5 + years of experience as a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer (at least 3 years as devops)

Expertise in Java, Python, Ruby, Bash or experience in another programming language

Experience and knowledge of CI/CD design and practice

Public Cloud, preferably GCP but AWS and Azure are good too!

Experience with Cloud Architecture Design principles and Cloud Architect certification

Experience creating infra as code solutions using tools such as: Terraform, Azure ARM templates , Cloudformation - a must

Experience with CI/CD tools and methodologies such as: Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitHub Action etc - a must

Hands-on implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in complex environments.

Proven experience working in a production environment - a must

Solid experience implementing production-grade Kubernetes Clusters with containerized environments and microservices (Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience working with Configuration Management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible is an advantage)

Solid understanding of networking technologies mainly focuses on networking for clouds

Experience with Service Mesh solutions such as Anthos, Istio, Consul - Advantage

Experience with monitoring and log analysis tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk etc. - Advantage

About you

Have a perfect communication skills especially in English

Naturally curious with a boldness to pursue aspirations as a committed lifelong learner

You have great interpersonal skills and able to communicate effectively with your team members and other teams across the business

You have an eye for detail and can apply logical thinking when managing tasks

You are super organised with the ability to work to deadlines

You are flexible, team-oriented and willing to work in a very fast-paced environment

Allergic to manual, repetitive tasks with a desire to remove Toil

Obsesses over systems performance and values simplicity over complexity

Passionate about customer user journeys

An Innate curiosity of how things work

Why Product Madness ?

You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world- class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino. The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United.

Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.

You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get- togethers and so much more.

So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?

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