Sr DevOps Engineer (FTE) - Direct Hire

Company Overview

VersusGame is a prediction game where you get paid for being right.  We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help design, build, and operate cross-platform web and mobile applications. You will be working with an experienced global cross-functional team to build and launch awesome user experiences for the players as well as the creators hosting the games.  

We are looking for engineers with a strong acumen for producing and operating high performance APIs running on Kubernetes in AWS. Experience with CI/CD on Gitlab, Terraform and application monitoring with Datadog is a big plus!

 What you’ll get to do:

• Design, build and continuously optimize the technology stack (cloud, monitoring, CI/CD, paging etc.) powering a best-in-class customer experience

• Understand business goals behind every feature creating solutions that launch amazing customer experience

• Build secure, performant, scalable Infrastructure for the rapid release of high-quality software

• Work side by side with a multi-disciplinary, diverse team to make meaningful decisions together

• Develop broad business skills and experiences

• Become obsessed with the customer and the relevant user journey data that informs strategy for the business as a whole

• Be lean in how you operate, always improving, always aligned to the bigger picture

• A deploy anywhere infrastructure that ‘just works’ and is highly available and repeatable

• Lead the development of our next-generation data infrastructure to support complex real-time data pipelines, machine learning workflows, large scale mobile and web applications

• Develop our testing infrastructure for load, stress, and performance testing

• Work directly with our engineering team as the lead on best practices for deploying, developing and scaling our entire technology stack

• Rapidly prototype new technologies do demonstrate how they can be applied to our problem sets and help guide future technology choices

• Configuration management, containerization, and management of our full stack of mobile applications, web applications, data infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure

What you bring to the table:

• 8+ years of DevOps experience - or relevant experience (as backend engineer, liveops engineer, etc.)

• Strong experience working with AWS cloud platforms - 5+ years minimum

• Strong experience working with Terraform

• Strong experience working with Kubernetes

• 4+ years of experience with Node.js, TypeScript and NestJS.

• 5+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

• An understanding of platform, application and data security

• A deep understanding of Authentication and Authorization (ideally; OIDC, oAuth2, Auth0)

• Experience developing complex applications in an agile environment as part of a multi-disciplinary, diverse team of engineers, designers, product experts, marketers and strategists

• Experience with modern web application development, including build tools, testing and CI/CD (ideally: GitHub Actions)

• Experience with designing serverless API architectures with an emphasis on scalability, performance, security, and extensibility

• Working knowledge of security best practices, specifically related to PII

• Excitement, energy, and strong people skills including excellent communication capabilities

• A nimble approach to thinking strategically while rolling up your sleeves and getting great work done

• Experience in a startup or venture-like operating model preferred

• Minimum 5 years experience working on complex infrastructure in a large scale setting

• Strong Knowledge of containers/serverless management/configuration management at scale

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and clustered computing

• Strong knowledge of Linux System Design, MacOS, iOS architectures

• Strong Knowledge of Networking both on prem and in the cloud and on containers

• Strong Knowledge of Complex job and workflow management technologies

• Strong Knowledge of GPU infrastructures for accelerated computations

• Experience with MLOps or experience in machine learning is a major bonus

• Previous experience leading the development of core infrastructure

• You are great in ambiguous situations and prefer it to be that way

• You are willing to take responsibility for you work and have a heightened sense of ownership

• You iterate quickly, believe in constant and consistent improvement, and continuous learning.

• Excellent communication skills and take pride in your ability to communicate and distill complex topics into succinct explanations.