

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.

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Job Overview:
We are looking for a seasoned OpenStack Administrator with strong expertise in managing large-scale production environments. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with Linux, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, and be capable of performing routine maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting in complex cloud infrastructures.
The candidate must also be comfortable working with Red Hat support, managing escalations, and communicating effectively with both internal teams and external clients.
Key Skills & Qualifications:
- Proven experience managing OpenStack infrastructure in production.
- Strong proficiency in Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS preferred).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- Experience with system monitoring, log management, and troubleshooting tools.
- Familiarity with RH support portal, managing cases, and following up on resolutions.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Strong client communication skills and ability to articulate technical issues clearly.
- Proven ability to work in and manage large-scale production environments.
Candidates with OpenStack certification will be preferred.
- Bachelor of Computer Science or Equivalent Education
- At least 5 years of experience in a relevant technical position.
- Azure and/or AWS experience
- Strong in CI/CD concepts and technologies like GitOps (Argo CD)
- Hands-on experience with DevOps Tools (Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, Checkmarx)
- Experience with Helm Charts for package management
- Strong in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Container Network Interface (CNI)
- Experience with programming and scripting languages (Spring Boot, NodeJS, Python)
- Strong container image management experience using Docker and distroless concepts
- Familiarity with Shared Libraries for code reuse and modularity
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)
Note: Looking for immediate joiners only.

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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!
Experience with Linux infrastructure, opensource databases (mysql, postgres etc), CI/CD tools Jenkins, Gitlab, Nexus Repository, Jira, Agile workflow and Kanban.
- Solid understanding of IP network and TCP/IP
- Minimum of 7+ years’ work experience in IT
- Minimum of 4+ years experience as DevOps Enginneer
- Good interpersonal skills and communication written and oral.
The AWS Cloud/Devops Engineer will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation. A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code. The Engineer will work closely with the Manager of Operations and Devops to build, manage and automate our AWS infrastructure.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
- Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
- Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
- Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
Qualifications:
- At least 1-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
- Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
- Expertise using Chef for configuration management
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
- Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
- Experience with CI-CD, Docker, GitLab, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
- Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Strong bias for action and ownership
- Hands on experience in AWS provisioning of AWS services like EC2, S3,EBS, AMI, VPC, ELB, RDS, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation.
- Good experience on Build and release process and extensively involved in the CICD using
Jenkins
- Experienced on configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Jenkins CI/CD
- Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous Integration and for end to end Automation for all Builds and Deployments.
- Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases.
- Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
- Good knowledge in version control system in Git and GitHub.
- Good experience in build tools
- Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes ,YAML and Manifest
- Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or Bash be able to build and administer CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of infrastructure tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible.
- Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
- Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos or Vagrant).
- Strong practical Windows and Linux system administration skills in the cloud.
- Understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other protocols.
- Knowledge of secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and CWE/SANS top 25.
- Deep understanding of Web Sockets and their functioning. Hands on experience of ElasticCache, Redis, ECS or EKS. Installation, configuration and management of Apache or Nginx web server, Apache/Tomcat Application Server, configure SSL certificates, setup reverse proxy.
- Exposure to RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora, etc.) is a plus.
- Exposure to programming languages like JAVA, PHP, SQL is a plus.
- AWS Developer or AWS SysOps Administrator certification is a plus.
- AWS Solutions Architect Certification experience is a plus.
- Experience building Blue/Green, Canary or other zero down time deployment strategies, advanced understanding of VPC, EC2 Route53 IAM, Lambda is a plus.
- Automate deployments of infrastructure components and repetitive tasks.
- Drive changes strictly via the infrastructure-as-code methodology.
- Promote the use of source control for all changes including application and system-level changes.
- Design & Implement self-recovering systems after failure events.
- Participate in system sizing and capacity planning of various components.
- Create and maintain technical documents such as installation/upgrade MOPs.
- Coordinate & collaborate with internal teams to facilitate installation & upgrades of systems.
- Support 24x7 availability for corporate sites & tools.
- Participate in rotating on-call schedules.
- Actively involved in researching, evaluating & selecting new tools & technologies.
- Cloud computing – AWS, OCI, OpenStack
- Automation/Configuration management tools such as Terraform & Chef
- Atlassian tools administration (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
- Scripting languages - Ruby, Python, Bash
- Systems administration experience – Linux (Redhat), Mac, Windows
- SCM systems - Git
- Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make
- Networking concepts - TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewall
- High-Availability, Redundancy & Failover concepts
- SQL scripting & queries - DML, DDL, stored procedures
- Decisive and ability to work under pressure
- Prioritizing workload and multi-tasking ability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Database systems – Postgres, Oracle, or other RDBMS
- Mac automation tools - JAMF or other
- Atlassian Datacenter products
- Project management skills
Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
- Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field
- Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
- Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
- Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
- Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision.
- Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp
You'll need:
- BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
- Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud
- Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
- A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
- Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team

