DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer and Architect in Dori AI, you will be responsible for streamlining and executing Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps activities with a charter to reduce cost while improving observability, scalability, and reliability.  In this role, you will also work closely with the Service Development team and contribute to the Service Platform design.

The Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited to:
Help identify and drive Speed, Performance, Scalability, and Reliability related optimization based on experience and learnings from the production incidents.
Work in an agile DevSecOps environment in creating, maintaining, monitoring, and automation of the overall solution-deployment.
Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on systems.
Identify issues and/or opportunities for improvements that are common across multiple services/teams.
This role will require weekend deployments

Skills and Qualifications:
1. 3+ years of experience in a DevOps end-to-end development process with heavy focus on service monitoring and site reliability engineering work.
2. Advanced knowledge of programming/scripting languages (Bash, PERL, Python, Node.js).
3. Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development including working with GiT, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
4. Advance experience with core microservice technology (RESTFul development).
5. Working knowledge of using Advance AI/ML tools are pluses.
6. Working knowledge in the one or more of the Cloud Services: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure
7. Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent related field experience

Key Behaviours / Attitudes:
Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.
Experience building & running systems to drive high availability, performance and operational improvements
Excellent written & oral communication skills; to ask pertinent questions, and to assess/aggregate/report the responses.
Ability to quickly grasp and analyze complex and rapidly changing systemsSoft skills
1. Self-motivated and self-managing.
2. Excellent communication / follow-up / time management skills.
3. Ability to fulfill role/duties independently within defined policies and procedures.
4. Ability to balance multi-task and multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction is key.
5. Be able to work in an interrupt-driven environment.Work with Dori Ai world class technology to develop, implement, and support Dori's global infrastructure.

As a member of the IT organization, assist with the analyze of existing complex programs and formulate logic for new complex internal systems. Prepare flowcharting, perform coding, and test/debug programs. Develop conversion and system implementation plans. Recommend changes to development, maintenance, and system standards.
Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in a specialized area. BS or equivalent experience in programming on enterprise or department servers or systems.

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• 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?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• 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?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• 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!

Responsibilities:

● Manage AWS services and day to day cloud operations.
● Work closely with the development and QA team to make the deployment process
smooth and devise new tools and technologies in order to achieve automation of most
of the components.
● Strengthen the infrastructure in terms of Reliability (configuring HA etc.), Security (cloud
network management, VPC, etc.) and Scalability (configuring clusters, load balancers,
etc.)
● Expert level understanding of DB replication, Sharding (mySQL DB Systems), HA
clusters, Failovers and recovery mechanisms.
● Build and maintain CI-CD (continuous integration/deployment) workflows.
● Having an expert knowledge on AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront and other AWS offered
services and products.
● Installation and management of software systems in order to support the development
team e.g. DB installation and administration, web servers, caching and other such
systems.

Requirements:

● B. Tech or Bachelor's in a related field.
● 2-5 years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud services such as EC2, ECS,
Cloudwatch, SQS, S3, CloudFront, route53.
● Experience with setting up CI-CD pipelines and successfully running large scale
systems.
● Experience with source control systems (SVN, GIT etc), Deployment and build
automation tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Ansible etc.
● Good experience and understanding of Linux/Unix based systems and hands-on
experience working with them with respect to networking, security, administration.
● Atleast 1-2 years of experience with shell/python/perl scripting; having experience with
Bash scripting is an added advantage.
● Experience with automation tasks like, automated backups, configuring fail overs,
automating deployment related process is a must have.
● Good to have knowledge of setting up the ELK stack; Infrastructure as a code services
like Terraform; working and automating processes with AWS SDK/CLI tools with scripts

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

• Responsible for the entire infrastructure including Production (both bare metal and AWS).
• Manage and maintain the production systems and operations including SysAdmin, DB activities.
• Improve tools and processes, automate manual efforts, and maintain the health of the system.
• Champion best practices, CI-CD, Metrics Driven Development
• Optimise the company's computing architecture
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Maintain security of the system
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

• 7+ years of experience into DevOps/Technical Operations
• Extensive experience in operating scripting language like shell, python, etc
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD process for SaaS applications using tools such as Jenkins
• Hands on experience in using configuration management tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc
• Hands-on experience to build and handle VMs, Containers utilizing tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc
• Hands on experience in building, designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS, Azure,GCP, etc
• Knowledge of Databases (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Knowledge of security/ethical hacking

• Have experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash
• Have experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, or Spark
• Have experience with Mongo, Hive

• Provide consultation and review all outgoing critical customer communications.
• Apply DevOps thinking in bringing the development and IT Ops process, people, and tools together within the company in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Perform architecture and security reviews for different projects, work with leads to develop strategy and roadmap for the client requirements. Involve in designing of the overall architecture of the system with another leads/architect.
• Develop and grow engineers in DevOps technology to meet the incoming requirements from the business team.
• Work with senior technical team to bring in new technologies/tools being used within the company. Develop and promote best practices and emerging concepts for DevSecOps and secure CI/CD. Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas, and technology roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Deals positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders as a trusted advisor across all levels, including teams outside of shared services.
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit.
• Implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment). Have Good exposure to CI & Build Management tools like Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Maven Gradle and etc
• Deployment and provisioning tools (Chef/Ansible/Terraform/AWS CDK etc)
• Docker Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Swarm etc
• Good hands-on knowledge of automation scripting Python Shell Ruby etc
• Version Control for Source Code Management (SCM) tool: GIT/Bitbucket and etc
• Expertise in Linux based systems like Unix Linux Ubuntu and also manage security systems Linux file system permission etc
• Container Orchestration tool: Kubernetes Swarm Meso Marathon Docker Writing Docker file Docker compose
• Expertise in managing Cloud resources and good exposure to Docker
• Public/Private/Hybrid cloud: AWS /Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform etc
• Extensive experience with cloud services elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and migration.
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, VictorOps
• Familiarity with Network protocols and elements - TCP/IP HTTP(S) SSL DNS Firewall router load balancers proxy.
• Excellent in creating new and improve existing workflows within the agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with incident and change management processes.
• Ability to effectively priorities work with fast-changing requirements.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.
• Resolve complex issues in scenarios like resource consumptions server performance backup strategy Scaling.
• Investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on users' reported issues and provide a workaround before implementing a final fix.
• Monitor servers and applications to ensure the smooth running of IT Architecture (Applications Services Schedulers Server Performance etc)

Design Skills:

• Interpret and implement the designs of others adhering to standards and guidelines
• Design solutions within their area of expertise using technologies that already exist within Tesco
• Understand the roadmaps for their area of Technology Design secure solutions
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by the engineering teams
• Understand the impact of technologies at an enterprise-scale innovation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure
• Understand how Industry trends impact their own area
• identify opportunities to automate work and deliver against them

 

 

BENEFITS: -

 Competitive salary and stock options -

 Premium medical benefits 

LOCATION: - Remote (India) 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field - 

At least 3-5 years of professional work experience as a 

DevOps / test automation / deployment engineer -

 Experience in agile software development methodologies 

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: -

 Design and development of scalable software test framework to automate test procedures - Perform health checks of existing sites periodically (manually and also developing a automation pipeline) - Manage per site software releases - 

Generate release notes, user guides, technical documentation -

 Perform upgrades/ downgrades (patch management) - 

Generate and Manage configurations - 

Suggest process improvements by interfacing with product owner - 

File process/installation/deployment related issues & tracking them - 

Verify customer-reported issues and translate them into technical tasks for development 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Following are must to have requirements, - 

Automation frameworks like Selenium etc. - 

Scripting languages like Perl, Python etc. - 

Linux systems - 

Version control system like git -

 Issue tracking system like Jira -

 Networking protocols -

 Cloud infrastructure - 

Ability to work individually and as part of a team with a sense of urgency -

 Excellent communication skills in written and verbal English - 

Great attention to detail 

PREFERRED: 

Following are good to have requirements, - 

Knowledge in any of the programming languages like C, C++ etc. 

Experience managing cloud-based (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and in-house server infrastructure - 

Familiarity with machine learning / artificial intelligence infrastructure - 

Experience in data visualization and statistics - 

Basic knowledge of hardware infrastructure containing routers, switches and others -

 Familiarity with web & data securityDesign and development of scalable software test framework to automate test 

THE OPPORTUNITY

A platform to learn and grow in a great working environment with cutting edge technologies. There is vast opportunity to showcase creative thinking which can be translated into a highly optimized tools/utilities.

 

KEY ACTIVITIES

• Code Integrations ( Compile, Build, Notify )
• Package creation ( Service Packs, Patches, Hotfixes )
•  Environment Preparation ( With GOLD SCM technical stack )
•  Environment & Infra management
•  Package delivery ( Customer specific & Standard )
• Build & Deployment automation
• Tickets management

 

KEY CRITERIA

Primary Technical Skills  

• Shell Scripting
• ORACLE DB Fundamentals
• Infra Monitoring & Diagnostics
• ClearCase / GIT
• DevOps concepts
• Basic Java

Other Required Skills

• Problem Solving
• Logical Reasoning
• Aptitude & Attitude
• Communication (Verbal & Written)