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Infrastructure Director - Core Tech (Hybrid)
1 year ago
We are nDreams, one of the world’s leading developers and publishers focused on VR games.
Combining innovation with excellence, we are the team behind award winning game Phantom: Covert Ops and Fracked. Our AAA experience and sensibilities, alongside bespoke VR technologies, give us the skillset, processes and creativity to deliver innovative, high production games for all VR platforms. We’ve got several exciting projects planned for the year and beyond - we can’t wait to show you more…
Our projects continue to push forward the boundaries of VR and we’re looking for talented people to help us turn them into a reality. Our talented studio now has over 100 people and has been assembled from world-leading games developers and publishers.
The Role
- Manager of Infra Cloud Architecture - Advise on our technology and strategy to deploy and maintain online services for use in the development and live operations of multiplayer experiences.
- Design, in collaboration with games teams, reliable, secure, maintainable, robust and scalable systems.
- Manage the Infrastructure and Dev Ops engineers to complete the projects that you help design.
- Planning - Schedule tasks and complete them on time, within budget, with an understanding of and appreciation for milestones, schedules, deadlines and efficient development processes
- Leadership - Work with a level of autonomy whilst reliably and effectively participating in team development.
- Quality of Service – Maintain high standard of support for infrastructure. Contingency planning: maximise uptime, minimise disruption.
- Security – Ensure robust security.
- Reporting to the Head of Technical Operations who coordinates shared technology and infrastructure requirements across all nDreams studios.
- Be hands on with problem solving.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers and develop long term strategies for nDreams games and userbase.
- Own the long term roadmap for our infrastructure and work with the Tech Ops Director to budget for current and future projects.
- Recruit and mentor an A class team of Engineers to develop a reliable and efficient system for all nDreams products
Essential capabilities
- Cloud architecture design and implementation. Modern infrastructure-as-code and containerisation techniques.
- AWS account management.
- Experience with Docker.
- Experience with databases: SQL and NoSQL. Server maintenance and advice on database design.
- Experience with Windows and Linux.
- Programming languages: Python, C#, C++.
- Team management.
- Clear reporting to clients.
- Bonus: Perforce usage and maintenance.
- Bonus: CI build systems.
Benefits
Our expanding company shares a passion for innovation, collaboration and leading the future of VR. We encourage an open and diverse culture and empower people to explore ideas and put their own stamp on their work. With humble beginnings of our own, we combine amazing projects and opportunities with a personal, caring touch.
We offer some great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time, and regular socials and parties, alongside holiday, pensions, health insurance, life cover and more. Our newly refurbished office has some fantastic facilities and is built around collaborative work (and play!).
The hybrid role is based out of our HQ in Farnborough, UK, but with a unique Flex+ policy that incorporates flexible working between home and office. The studio is within easy distance from London and Guildford.
Salary is competitive and dependent on your experience.
If you think this could be the role for you, we’d love you to get in touch! Drop us your CV via the link or send us an email to enquiries@ndreams.com .
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