Senior Cloud Development Engineer Full Time Individual Contributor

Opportunity

Our Client who is a leader in the Gaming & interactive Entertainment with millions of customers globally is looking for an experienced Cloud Development Engineer focused on platform control automation tooling.

This FTE position in the US Infrastructure Platform team which builds internal cloud services, provides the glue between multiple infrastructure tools, and offers build, release tooling and workflows to empower development teams across the company.

Their mission is to bring next generation tools and practices to game development industry-wide.

• You will help evolve and mature their state of the art large scale cloud native infrastructure foundation for their digital ecosystem that consists of this firms: Online Services, Online Store and Web Presence
• You will work in a Collaborative globally distributed team and for the time being work from home. We want employees that own outcomes oriented work, can hold technology vision and uncover new ideas.

Responsibilities

• Work with service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps engineers to codify and model existing workflows and processes into standardized tooling used by internal development teams.
• Leverage emerging cloud native technologies to provide self-service workflows that enable development teams to build, test, release, scale and support online games and services continuously with high confidence.
• Build applications to provide visibility and control of complex release workflows and deployments at scale.
• You have proven abilities to complete full projects of a scope/complexity larger than a single individual end-to-end feature.
• Help operate the employers cloud platform, provide service owner support, decrease issue resolution times and participate in an on call rotation.
• Contribute to shaping the future platform product vision and roadmap.
• Mentor other team members through technical guidance and code reviews, follow industry trends and maintain a strong interest in emerging technology and best practices.

Minimum Qualifications (you should have 85% of these skills)

• Ability to design systems that cleanly integrate with legacy and emerging technologies
• Practical hands-on experience with Software product development life cycle and delivering Software to consumers
• Hands-on working knowledge of AWS and cloud infrastructure;
  • You have created architecture for a service running in AWS that serves businesses or the public at scale
  • You provided input on which underlying AWS services to use for a value added solution
  • You have used AWS services, including
    • DynamoDB, RDS
    • EC2, EKS
    • S3, SNS, SQS
    • ACM, Route 53
    • AWS Config, IAM and others
• Deep domain expertise as Kubernetes developer
  • You wrote a Kubernetes controller that is used on live production clusters
  • You validated and corrected Kubernetes cluster configuration
  • You secured & hardened a Kubernetes cluster for production use
  • You operated Kubernetes clusters with mission critical publicly facing applications at scale
• You have hands-on experience with Docker containerization
• Experience building applications by writing code in multiple languages (Go, Python);
  • You have written multiple Go apps used in a production environment that serve more than the immediate team
• You are an expert who created micro services solutions
• You have scripted in Python
• Hands-on experience with network administration
  • You have setup VPCs, subnets, peering, private links
  • You have experience working with CIDR blocks
  • You have practical hands-on knowledge of DNS
• Expertise with Terraform, Vault and Git
• Complex distributed environment troubleshooting experience

Preferred Qualifications (Having some or all of these skills improve your fit)

• You have been involved with building a Service Mesh like Istio, AppMesh or Linkerd, and or contributed code to it
• Administrative experience with CI/CD systems (Codefresh, TeamCity, Jenkins)
• Knowledge of Open Telemetry and Tracing
• Familiarity with Metrics and logging tools (New Relic, SumoLogic, Grafana, Kubernetes Lens)
• Experience with Linux and Docker internals
• Programming language background beyond Go and Python: Java, Scala, Ruby, TypeScript
• Knowledge and experience using Perforce
• Interest in Machine Learning

Benefits/Compensation

• Base pay up to $225k plus bonus and other cash benefits that can make this financially attractive all based on DOE.
• Relocation compensation is available if needed or you can work from your current location with travel back to HQ on a regular basis (Covid depending) as long as their is one of the clients brick and mortar locations across the United States
• Titles are not as important here as in other firms, the working environment is unique compared to other firms.
• They offer an extraordinary benefits plan including 100% pay of the premiums for both you and your dependents.
• Coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.
• Each year, employees receive company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical
• This job posting is not an offer of employment, we desire US Citizens or Green Card holders only apply

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