JOB – Sr. DevOps Engineer
Bit Reactor is seeking a motivated Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our talented engineering team. The role’s primary responsibilities will be designing, implementing, and maintaining the automated builds and deployments of applications and online services. The role will interact with Bit Reactor development teams to enable the adoption and implementation of DevOps practices and principles for current and future projects. All candidates will need a strong desire to work closely with software engineers on the design and implementation of CI/CD systems using cloud-hosted solutions.
Our team has a track record of shipping the award-winning franchises XCOM, Civilization, and Elder Scrolls Online and is excited to usher in a new era of games that blur the line between strategy and action. Working in a highly collaborative team environment, candidates should enjoy contributing to the game development process, have a cooperative attitude, and share our passion for building exceptional games.
Responsibilities:
- Expertise in maintaining containerized applications using Kubernetes and orchestrating deployments.
- Strong skills in maintaining Kubernetes fleets, especially with Amazon EKS.
- Experience using CloudFormation, and AWS resource cli tools/SDKs (AWS cli, eksctl, boto3)
- Working Knowledge of using Kubernetes control, setup, and component tools (kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, etc)
- Ability to configure and maintain Jenkins automation server to build and deploy applications in container based environments
- Proficient in DNS, Certificate management, TLS, Load Balancers/Proxies (AWS Load Balancers, Envoy) and familiarity with OIDC/OAuth authentication mechanisms
- Practical experience with source code management/version control using Perforce and Git
- Highly skilled using scripting languages Python, Bash, and Groovy
Helpful experience:
- Worked in agile development scrum based team environment
- Strong skills in Python, Bash, and Groovy script languages
- Working knowledge of database systems - AWS RDS, MySQL, NoSQL
- Designed, Implemented Architectures for Cloud and Cloud Hybrid distributed computer networks and systems.
- Familiar with Greenhouse is a bonus
Qualifications:
- Support cloud-based architectures; deploy and maintain applications and online services in AWS utilizing infrastructure automation/management tools (ex. CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, etc)
- Demonstrated experience building and deploying Linux container-based applications and online services using container orchestration engines and platforms.
- Experience automating deployments within Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment paradigms.
- Expertise in load balancing, routing, monitoring, and securing highly available web services in cloud environments.
- Ability to research, design, and complete DevOps game development projects independently
- Demonstrated ability with script languages (ex. Bash, Python, Groovy, or Perl)
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to high quality work
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written and be able to work closely with on-site and off-site developers.
- Excellent organizational and documentation skills
- Responsibility for mentoring DevOps engineers on the team
- Commitment to continuous personal growth in DevOps technical skills
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or related field and 5-7 years’ work experience (or equivalent related training and experience)
- Candidate must be located within the Baltimore Maryland area or willing to relocate
Bit Reactor, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ancestry, color, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, legally protected physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
