Sr. DevOps Engineer – Troy, NY OR Boston
Senior DevOps Engineer
Company seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working primarily on our online game services platform, in addition to some other internal technologies. You will be responsible for managing the infrastructure behind very complex data processing and presentation tools that integrate tightly with some of the industry’s biggest game franchises. You will work as part of a highly talented team of producers, engineers, and business specialists to expand the platform, and ensure an efficient and stable environment for a catalogue of products.
We are looking for a candidate with the ability to quickly learn new platforms. We use many different technologies, and while we don’t expect you to know them all coming in, we need a candidate who can quickly learn and be proficient with them!
What part will you play?
• Own the automation of our infrastructure platform
• Work on incorporating Company’s engineering practices into infrastructure operations
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug problems, live, on very complex systems
• Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
What do we need from you?
• Must be comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment
• Able to read and write software in Python or some other general-purpose programming language
• Strong experience with databases (NoSQL experience is a plus, since we primarily use MongoDB, RedisDB, and ElasticSearch)
• Experience using and creating APIs
• Experience with automation/configuration management (we use SaltStack and AWS Cloud Formation)
• Experience with system monitoring tools (we use Datadog, Kibana, and Sentry)
• Ability to excel in a fast paced, startup-like environment
• A detail-oriented, organized thought process and the ability to act decisively under stressful conditions
• A self-motivated work process and excellent communication skills
• An understanding of system optimization issues
• This position can be based on-site at the Boston studio or at the studio in Troy NY.
