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● Good understanding of how the web works
● Experience with at least one language like Java, Python etc
● Good with Shell scripting
● Experience with *Nix based operating systems
● Experience with k8s, containers
● Fairly good understanding of AWS/GCP/Azure
● Troubleshoot and fix outages and performance issues in infrastructure stack
● Identify gap and design automation tools for all feasible functions in infrastructure
● Good verbal and written communication skills
● Drive SLA/SLO of team
Benefits
This is an opportunity to work on a fairly complex set of systems and improve
them. You will get a chance to learn things like “how to think about code
simplicity”, “how to write for maintainability” and several other things.
● Comprehensive health insurance policy.
● Flexible working hours and a very friendly work environment.
● Flexibility to work either in the office (post Covid) or remotely.

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Job Title - DevOps Engineer
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Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer
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Location - India
A Little Bit about Kwalee….
Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.
What’s In It For You?
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Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
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Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
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Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win
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Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
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Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
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On site gym - take care of yourself
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Relocation support - available
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Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
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Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays!
Are You Up To The Challenge?
As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.
Your Team Mates
The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work. Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.
What Does The Job Actually Involve?
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Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously improve our systems.
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Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.
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Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.
Your Hard Skills
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Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role
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Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems
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Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)
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Some coding experience (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
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Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)
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AWS experience is a plus
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A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best
Your Soft Skills
Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues.
We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.
A Little More About Kwalee
Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.
Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.
We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France.
We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!
Please find the JD below:
- Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform.
- The devops engineer needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests.
- Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure.
- To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms.
- VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed.
- Good hands-on experience of Networking on Cloud is required.
- Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services.
- Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking (load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential.
- Requirement is to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue green/canary deployment models etc).
- The experience in AWS is desirable.
- Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory.
- Know-how on the use of GitHub
- Administration of Azure Kubernetes services


Roles and Responsibilities:
• Gather and analyse cloud infrastructure requirements
• Automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Shell/Python/Ruby
preferred), with configuration management tools (Ansible/ Puppet/Chef), service registry and
discovery tools (Consul and Vault, etc), infrastructure orchestration tools (Terraform,
CloudFormation), and automated imaging tools (Packer)
• Support existing infrastructure, analyse problem areas and come up with solutions
• An eye for monitoring – the candidate should be able to look at complex infrastructure and be
able to figure out what to monitor and how.
• Work along with the Engineering team to help out with Infrastructure / Network automation needs.
• Deploy infrastructure as code and automate as much as possible
• Manage a team of DevOps
Desired Profile:
• Understanding of provisioning of Bare Metal and Virtual Machines
• Working knowledge of Configuration management tools like Ansible/ Chef/ Puppet, Redfish.
• Experience in scripting languages like Ruby/ Python/ Shell Scripting
• Working knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, firewalling & IPS concepts
• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.
• Self-starter who can implement with minimal guidance
• Hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins
• Experience with Managing K8s infrastructure


Job Description:
• Contribute to customer discussions in collecting the requirement
• Engage in internal and customer POC’s to realize the potential solutions envisaged for the customers.
• Design/Develop/Migrate VRA blueprints and VRO workflows; strong hands-on knowledge in vROPS and integrations with application and VMware solutions.
• Develop automation scripts to support the design and implementation of VMware projects.
Qualification:
• Maintain current, high-level technical knowledge of the entire VMware product portfolio and future product direction and In depth level knowledge
• Maintain deep technical and business knowledge of cloud computing and networking applications, industry directions, and trends.
• Experience with REST API and/or Python programming. TypeScript/NodeJS backend experience
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with DevOps tools like Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• End to end experience in Architecture, Design and Development of VMware Cloud Automation suite with good exposure to VMware products and/or Solutions.
• Hands-on experience in automation, coding, debugging and release.
• Sound process knowledge from requirement gathering, implementation, deployment and Support.
• Experience in working with global teams, customers and partners with solid communication skills.
• VMware CMA certification would be a plus
• Academic background in MS/BE/B-Tech/ IT/CS/ECE/EE would be preferred.
- Develop and Maintain IAC using Terraform and Ansible
- Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
- Deal with challenges associated with scale.
- Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
- Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
- Thrive in an environment that uses Elasticsearch extensively.
- Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
- Champion best development practices and provide mentorship
An AWS Certified Engineer with strong skills in
- Terraform o Ansible
- *nix and shell scripting
- Elasticsearch
- Circle CI
- CloudFormation
- Python
- Packer
- Docker
- Prometheus and Grafana
- Challenges of scale
- Production support
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- Strong hands-on knowledge of setting up production, staging, and dev environments on AWS/GCP/Azure
- Strong hands-on knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of continuous testing environments such as Travis-CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc.
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
- Excellent troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

Objectives of this Role
Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer - needs, and innovating to continually improve
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Languages: Python, Java, Ruby DSL, Bash
- Databases : MySQL, Cassandra , Elastic Search
- Deployment: AWS CloudFormation
Essential Criteria:
- 8 or more years administrating production Linux systems in a 24x7 environment
- 3 or more years’ experience in a DevOps/ SRE role as an engineer or technical lead
- At least 1 year of team leadership experience
- Significant knowledge of Amazon Web Services (CLI/APIs, EC2, EBS, S3, VPCs, IAM, AWS Lambda)
- Experience deploying services into containerized orchestration environments such as Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
- Experience with at least one of Python, Bash, Ruby, or equivalent
- Experience creating and managing CI/CD pipeline like Jenkins or Spinnaker
- Familiar with version control using Git
- Solid understanding of common security principles
Nice to Have:
- Preference for hands on experience with Serverless Architecture, Kubernetes and Docker
- Strong experience with open-source configuration management tools
- Managing distributed systems spanning multiple AWS regions / data-centers
- Experience with bootstrapping solutions
- Open source contributor
- We’re committed to client success: There are over 6,200 brand and retail websites in the Bazaarvoice network. Our clients represent some of the world’s leading companies across a wide range of industries including retail, apparel, automotive, consumer electronics and travel.
- We’re leaders in consumer-generated content: Each month, more than one billion consumers view and share authentic consumer-generated content, such as ratings and reviews, curated photos, social posts and videos, about products in our network. Thousands upon thousands or reviews are added to the Bazaarvoice network everyday.
- Our network delivers: Network analytics provide insights that help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences that drive brand awareness, consideration, sales, and loyalty.
- We’re a great place to work: We pride ourselves on our unique culture. Join a company that values passion, innovation, authenticity, generosity, respect, teamwork, and performance.

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the organization.
- Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes.
- Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams.
- Working on your own applications which will be used internally.
- Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start).
- Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company.
- Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry events.
- Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening.
- Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices.
Requirements:
- 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing amounts of traffic and new product requirements.
- Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills.
- Experience managing complex systems at scale.
- Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions.
- Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart metrics and alerting.
- Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch).
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
- Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
- Experience in working on linux based servers.
- Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
- Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash.
- Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch.
- Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins.
- Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage.
- Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu.
Good to have:
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
- Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
- Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka, Elasticsearch.

