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DevOps Engineer

For decades, Wizards of the Coast has connected people around the world through play and imagination, with core games that have defined their genres - Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons®. We want to offer more ways to connect and play as the company grows. And that’s where you come in.

Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and the world's largest publisher of adventure games, including Magic: The Gathering® Trading Card Game and Dungeons & Dragons® Role playing Games, has a great opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join our Live Operations team.

We offer competitive salaries, a great benefits package, and the excitement of working in a creative organization. But the best part of working here is that we believe building products that bring hours of enjoyment to millions around the globe is an inherently cool way to earn a living.

WHAT IS THIS ROLE ALL ABOUT? (POSITION PURPOSE)

As a DevOps Engineer, you will work collaboratively with software engineering and QA to deploy and operate our products. Your primary responsibility will be to engage in and improve the whole life cycle of services – from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement. You will support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews. You will maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health. In addition, as a DevOps Engineer you will conduct research and will maintain an understanding of industry trends on existing and new technologies to advise how to gain the best value from the technologies we use.

Day to Day Responsibilities For This Wizard

• Refining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Gitlab, CI, TeamCity or an equivalent
• Building, optimizing and deploying Docker files to Kubernetes
• Analyzing cloud-based architecture for standard methodologies
• Developing monitoring and alerting tools specific to the product(s) they support.
• Participating in application code reviews (C#, Bash, .Net, Python, and PowerShell)
• 7x24 On-call responsibility. Act as critical issue engineer for operational issues
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

AM I QUALIFIED? (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

Experience Creating and Casting these Spells:

• 3 years working in support of critical, multi-tier applications.
• 3 years engineering infrastructure solutions in a production environment.
• 3 years of distributed system monitoring and telemetry implementation
• 2 years engineering external cloud-based infrastructure solutions in either Azure or AWS
• 2 years working in support of high transaction, consumer-facing systems.
• 2 years of software development: automation-related experience valued in particular.
• 2 years of experience using scripting languages such as bash, python, and PowerShell, or compiled languages such as C, C# are most meaningful, but others are acceptable
• Experience working in a matrix team using scrum agile to handle daily work items

Knowledge, Abilities and Characteristics of the Ideal Wizard:

• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queuing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, micro services, and so on.
• Associated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to follow RPC calls across arbitrary network steps. Consequent understanding of monitoring in distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with instrumentation and gathering application level telemetry for consumer-facing applications.
• Experience with Business Continuity and disaster recover design, planning and implementation.
• Familiar with the concepts of continuous delivery and continuous integration.
• Ability to analyze, understand, and tackle complex problems by using technology.
• Experience working collaboratively to create designs and/or solve problems.

Education and Training:

• BA/BS degree desired or equivalent year-for-year work experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.