Code Wizards are one of the world's leaders in Game and Esports Tech. We're in a period of growth and looking to bolster our DevOps capabilities by adding more engineers to our team.

Are you a highly productive DevOps Engineer, looking to use your wealth of games industry knowledge and your technical DevOps skills to help keep games online and running, whatever challenges are thrown at you?

In this role, you will use your skills to help educate others in the team and act as an escalation point for head-scratching problems. Incidents are no problem, and you are happy to pick up and run with an outage, working with internal teams and the customer to keep the game infrastructure online.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including in incident scenarios

- Proactively identify and raise methods of improving team efficiency and procedures to improve the support to the customer

- Assisting with escalated issues and navigating scenarios across multiple teams

- Writing clean, scalable, and performant scripts & code

- Forming part of a regular on-call rotation supporting our customers and internal teams

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

- Experience working in the gaming industry having migrated a live service game in production.

- Knowledge of backend systems for online games and ideally exposure to game engines,  Unity, Unreal etc.

- An excitement to expand your knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure and tools

- Automation knowledge on a wide variety of tools – Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, and Kubernetes, etc.

- Prior experience migrating a game from one Cloud provider onto AWS

- Excellent knowledge of containers, virtual machines and Linux server administration

- Demonstrable experience in programming or personal code-based projects.

Initially, we will be looking at people with knowledge of the Games Industry.