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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!
Shubham Vishwakarma
Full Stack Developer - Averlon
About Kwalee
About
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.
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!
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Roles & Responsibilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
- Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure
- Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting
- Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure
- Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms
- Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills
• Support software build and release efforts:
• Create, set up, and maintain builds
• Review build results and resolve build problems
• Create and Maintain build servers
• Plan, manage, and control product releases
• Validate, archive, and escrow product releases
• Maintain and administer configuration management tools, including source control, defect management, project management, and other systems.
• Develop scripts and programs to automate process and integrate tools.
• Resolve help desk requests from worldwide product development staff.
• Participate in team and process improvement projects.
• Interact with product development teams to plan and implement tool and build improvements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
While the job description describes what is anticipated as the requirements of the position, the job requirements are subject to change based upon any changing needs and requirements of the business.
Required Skills
• TFS 2017 vNext Builds or AzureDevOps Builds Process
• Must to have PowerShell 3.0+ Scripting knowledge
• Exposure on Build Tools like MSbuild, NANT, XCode.
• Exposure on Creating and Maintaining vCenter/VMware vSphere 6.5
• Hands On experiences on above Win2k12 OS and basic info on MacOS
• Good to have Shell or Batch Script (optional)
Required Experience
Candidates for this position should hold the following qualifications to be considered as a suitable applicant. Please note that except where specified as “preferred,” or as a “plus,” all points listed below are considered minimum requirements.
• Bachelors Degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
• 3 or more years experience with Software Configuration Management tools, concepts, and processes.
• Exposure to Source control systems such as TFS, GIT, or Subversion (Optional)
• Familiarity with object-oriented concepts and programming in C# and Power Shell Scripting.
• Experience working on AzureDevOps Builds or vNext Builds or Jenkins Builds
• Experience working with developers to resolve development issues related to source control systems.
Objectives :
- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
- Testing code written by others and analyzing results
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
- Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :
- Deploy updates and fixes
- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
- Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors
- Investigate and resolve technical issues
- Develop scripts to automate visualization
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
Skills and Qualifications :
- Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
- Proficient with git and git workflows
- Good logical skills and knowledge of programming concepts(OOPS,Data Structures)
- Working knowledge of databases and SQL
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology. Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
- Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
- Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
- Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
- Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
- Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
- Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
- Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
- Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
- Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
- Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
- Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
- Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
- Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
- Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
- Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
- Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
- Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
- Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments
- Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
- Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
- Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
- Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
- Hands-on experience building database-backed web applications using Python based frameworks
- Excellent knowledge of Linux and experience developing Python applications that are deployed in Linux environments
- Experience building client-side and server-side API-level integrations in Python
- Experience in containerization and container orchestration systems like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Experience with NoSQL document stores like the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Experience in using and managing Git based version control systems - Azure DevOps, GitHub, Bitbucket etc.
- Experience in using project management tools like Jira, Azure DevOps etc.
- Expertise in Cloud based development and deployment using cloud providers like AWS or Azure
Role Summary
In this role, you will lead the DevOps function at the organisation and work through all
facets of software development: design, prototype, implementation, testing and
documentation.
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, implement, test and troubleshoot deployment strategies
- BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent. MS or higher degree
- preferred.
- Design continuous integration and delivery pipelines using latest tools and platformsv
- Demonstrated understanding and hands-on experience in Kubernetes, K8s-Ingress,
- Docker, AWS EC2, VPC, Route53, ELB, RDS, MongoDB, Helm, Rancher, Jenkins,
- VPN, GKE.
- Create high level deployment design (HLSD) documents and outline software solutions
- Strong DevOps Management experience with focus on server-side development and
- database design
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Strong understanding of web technologies, web services, communication protocols,
- (REST, SOAP API’s) and a proven track record in developing communication between
- desktop applications and web services
- Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
- Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
Qualification
- Experience with working on code enhancements within a large, complex software
- system
- Create server side deployment primarily in the Cloud, Collaboration space
- 10+ years of relevant experience in developing and managing web/app products.
- Experience with a few of these languages: Shell, Ruby/ JRuby, Python, PowerShell, Java,
- Go
- Hands-on experience in deploying and managing highly scalable cloud applications
- using AWS,Google Cloud
- Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
- Basic understanding of cloud security and hands on experience in building secure
- systems.
- Prepare accurate implementation task lists / time estimates and deliver assignments as
- per functional specifications, quality standards and project schedulesvvvv
Excellent understanding of SDLC patching, releases and software development at scale.
Excellent knowledge of Git.
Excellent knowledge of Docker.
Good understanding of enterprise standards ond enterprise building principles,
In-depth knowledge in Windows OS
Knowledge of Linux os
Theoretical and practical skills in Web-environments based on .Net technologies, e.g. Ils,
Kestrel, .Net Core, C#.
Strong scripting skills in one or any combination of CMD Shell,Bash, PowerShell. Python.
Good understanding of the mechanisms of Web-environment architectures approaches.
Strong knowledge of cloud providers offering, Azure or AWS.
Good knowledge of a configuration management tools, Ansible, Chef, Salt stack, Puppet.
(Good to have)
Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure orchestration tools like kubemetes or cloud based orchestration.
Good knowledge in one or any combination of cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like
ARM Templates, Terraform, Pulumi.
In-depth knowledge in one or any combination of software delivery orchestration tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, etc.
Strong practical knowledge of CI Tools, ie, Azure Devops, Jenkins Excellent knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery approaches
Good knowledge on integration of Code Quality tools like SonarQube, Application or Container Security tool like Vera Code, Checksum, Chekov, Trivy.
In-depth knowledge on Azure DevOps Build infrastructure setup, Azure DevOps
Administration and Access management
The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS
Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing
- ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
- SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
- Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
- Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
- Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).
Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration
What you will get:
- To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
- A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
- Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
- High Growth Work Environment ⚙️
What we are looking for:
- An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
- Ability to take Ownership of your work
- Past experience in leading a team
EXP:: 4 - 7 yrs
- Any scripting language:: Python, Scala, shell or bash
- Cloud:: AWS
- Database:: Relational (SQL) & non-relational (NoSQL)
- CI/CD tools and Version controlling
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