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Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Pocket Pinata Interactive is a Vancouver mobile game development studio practising the art and science of building games and services. We are looking for a full-time Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote) to join our game development family here in British Columbia.

You are a technologist with oodles of experience with python programming, network/server architectures and development pipelines. You enjoy playing around with Dev Ops technologies like Terraform, Ansible, or Fabric. You are a big fan of software design patterns, and enjoy reading the occasional tech journals and sketching out Cloud Architectural diagrams. You are results-driven, detail-oriented and always seek self-improvement.

You also have an interest in gaming and are looking for a friendly game studio filled with like-minded individuals with a team who prizes integrity, transparency and personal growth.

You will:

• Lead the technical vision, direction and technology for DevOps for the studio
• Collaborate with artists, producers, designers, and programmers on a daily basis
• Actively participate in production-related meetings by offering thoughts and ideas
• Design and implement systems according to the studio's code quality standards
• Troubleshoot system issues and formulate solutions that minimizes risks
• Effectively communicate technical designs and technical decisions verbally, via diagrams, documents, and code comments
• Work with software teams to improve scalability, durability and security
• Participate in a rotational on-call program to troubleshoot server impacting issues.
• Design and implement code pipelines with Jenkins (CI/CD).
• Mentor Intermediate and Associate level DevOps Engineers.
• Managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to coordinate software release and increase the speed/frequency of deployments.
• Creating alerts/monitors on pipelines and production environments.
• Automating manual tasks or tests to make software development faster.
• Managing Jenkins installations with ephemeral slaves.
• Developing dockerized base images to be used by other teams.
• Implement and maintain backend game features for specific titles.

You will be a great fit for our team if you have…

• At least 5+ years of experience with DevOps pipelines for cloud and mobile server applications, with a strong preference for a background in games.
• 3+ years experience working with AWS, empowering your teams to scale and grow.
• 2+ years of experience working with Python or JavaScript
• Comfortable using tools and services (or comparable alternatives) like EC2, Kubernetes, S3, RDS, Elasticache and AWS Lambda
• Experience with Build pipelines and deployments with Jenkins.
• Experience with cache services (Redis) and message queues services (RabbitMQ)
• Experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, mTLS, and VPN.
• Experience with L2, L3, and L7 load balancers
• Experience with database technologies, in particular relational databases like MySQL.
• Experience with backend API development
• Experience with robust data analytics pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD tools and automation languages.
• Experience deploying, maintaining and monitoring containerized applications.
• Experience with cloud networking infrastructure setup and management.
• Experience with Large-scale distributed systems and Service Mesh Architectures.
• Experience with IaaC (infrastructure as code) eg. Terraform.
• Experience with containerization services (Docker / Kubernetes)
• Knowledgeable on information and application security concepts including public key encryption, remote access, access credentials, cryptography standards and multi-factor authentication.
• Strategic time management skills and a commitment to executing tasks to completion.
• Accessible communication skills, both written and orally.
• A detail-oriented mindset with a strong ability to multitask
• A proactive, forward thinking and collaborative with others
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).

Having the following skills is a plus…

• Experience with .NET programming
• Mobile, F2P, or idle game experience is a HUGE plus!
• Experience shipping games on mobile (Android, IOS)
• Experience with regulated software (Bank compliance)
• Have worked with game engines like Unity
• Understanding of game development, mechanics and structure.
• Knowledge of UML