DevOps Engineer

Department: S&C – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)  

Experience Required: 4–8 Years  

Location: Bangalore / Pune /Mumbai 

Employment Type: Full-time

• Provide Tier 2/3 technical product support to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Develop automation tools and scripts to improve operational efficiency and support processes. 
• Manage and maintain system and software configurations; troubleshoot environment/application-related issues. 
• Optimize system performance through configuration tuning or development enhancements. 
• Plan, document, and deploy applications in Unix/Linux, Azure, and GCP environments. 
• Collaborate with Development, QA, and Infrastructure teams throughout the release and deployment of lifecycles. 
• Drive automation initiatives for release and deployment processes. 
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams to manage hardware/software resources, maintenance, and scheduled downtimes across production and non-production environments. 
• Participate in on-call rotations (minimum one week per month) to address critical incidents and off-hour maintenance tasks. 

Key Competencies 

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and critical thinking abilities. 
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills. 
• Strong focus on documentation, process improvement, and system reliability. 
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable in a fast-paced work environment. 

Primary responsibilities: 

·        Design, develop web applications using AngularJS 6 or above

·        Work closely with onsite, offshore, and cross functional teams, Product Management, backend developers, SQA teams to effectively use technologies to build and deliver high quality and on-time delivery

·        Proactively Identify risks and failure modes early in the development lifecycle and develop POCs to mitigate the risks early in the program

·        Assertive communication and team skills

·        This individual be self-directed, highly motivated, and organized with strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, and an ability to work on multiple projects and function in a team environment.

·        Keep an eye on NFR’s and ensure our product is meeting all required compliances as per Carrier standards.

Experience and Skills Required: 

·        5-8 years of overall experience in web appSoftwareproduct development

·        At least 5 years of experience in AngularJS

·        Solid working knowledge of using Cloud native resources for data retrieval and persistence.

·        Thorough working knowledge in integrating with Azure, azure functions, Microservices etc.,

·        Having work experience in Javascript frameworks is an added advantage.

·        Experience in executing CI/CD processes

Qualifications:

·             B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech qualification

• Job Title - Software Engineer - Frontend

• Reports Into - Lead Frontend Web Developer

• Location - Hybrid / Bangalore

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 Software Engineer - Frontend you’ll be part of the Frontend team, implementing beautiful web designs made by our designers to keep both our site and the internal web-based tools we use fresh and up to date on top of working on new projects alongside this, there is always something new and interesting to work on. 

Your Team Mates

The frontend team consists of both our frontend developers and designers, we work closely with all parts of the business to create tools that vary across the whole company, from the publishing team to create a portal for people to submit games, the marketing team on things like our website, all the way to our internal teams for things like administration and analytics.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Implementing designs for our website/web tools created by our design team

• Create and update interactive interfaces used throughout the company

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 2 years browser-based programming experience

• A proven track record of programming high quality and innovative web pages using Javascript, HTML5 & CSS3 and relevant frameworks (ideally ReactJS but could also be others e.g. AngularJS, NodeJS, Handlebars, jquery, gulp)

• An excellent working knowledge of various programming languages, databases and scripting tools including at least one of bash, MySQL, CouchBase, Python, Java, C#, JSP, PHP

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best

• Interest in mobile games

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!

Skills ​

AEM Guides, JQuery, Java, Java Script, HTML 5, CSS, XML, Touch UI, CI/CD tools like Maven, Jenkins.

Role and Responsibilities

●    Build and maintain solutions for AEM Guides.

●    Work in Agile Methodology - be part of Sprint Ceremonies, provide accurate estimates for assigned development Stories & deliver on time.

●    Follow Best and Recommended Practices while implementing solutions.

●    Ensure Code Quality, Readability, Maintainability and Security.

●    Write JUnit Test Cases for Unit Testing

●    Communicate with customer teams on requirements effectively.

●    Manage customer expectations of response time and issue resolution

●    Troubleshoot and reproduce the technical problems reported by customers and define workarounds.

●    Create and integrate content-driven applications on top of the AEM platform, and integrate with other systems

Required Skills

●    Good understanding on UI technologies like JQuery, Java Script, HTML 5, CSS.

●    Must: Good understanding of backend technologies like Java EE, Servlets, JSP, Tag libraries, and JSTL skills.

●    Must: Good understanding of CI/CD tools like Maven, Jenkins.

●    Must: Good understanding of Code Quality and Security tools like SONAR.

●    Must: Good understanding of Topic, Concept, Reference etc.,

●    Must: Experience in creating custom templates.

●    Must: Solid experience in creating editor plugins and custom features.

●    Must: Solid experience in integrating third party API’s.

●    Must: Solid experience in creating custom output presets.

●    Must: Ability to handle clients professionally during all interfaces.

●    Preferred: Ability to work in extended hours to overlap with North America timings.

●    Must: Strong written and verbal communication skills.

●    Must: Minimum 2-3 years of experience in AEM Guides.

●    Preferred: Knowledge in AEM foundational concepts, including the CRX repository, the AEM platform, the use of core frameworks such as Apache Sling and Apache Felix.

●    Preferred: Knowledge on AEM Guides in AEMaaCS.

• Build fast and efficient next-generation web applications
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones
• Collaborate with Designers to iterate on the design
• Work closely with Backend Engineers to integrate APIs and other services
•  Find and address performance issues
• Identify and communicate front-end best practices
• Customer-focused, whether responding to support queries or developing new features and functionality.
• Able to provide constructive feedback and effectively review code, guiding other UI engineers in the right direction

• 3+ years of experience in UI/frontend development.
• Hands-on experience using React as a front-end development framework.
• Sound knowledge of front-end development languages, tools and methodologies like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and associated technologies and toolsets (e.g. jQuery, Sass)
• Able to write front-end code that is cross-browser and cross-device friendly, through responsive or adaptive techniques is essential.
• Working knowledge of AWS for product development and deployment is preferred
• Experience using Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) systems for development and deployment.
• Proven knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Knowledge and Skills:

• Writing semantic, modern, and accessible HTML mark-up.
• ReactJS (v17),Type Script, HTML, CSS
• Organizing and writing modular, well-structured CSS.
• Mastery of turning complex mock-ups into performant components/pages.
• Strong familiarity with Vanilla JS and up to date with the latest TypeScript features.
• Experience with writing scalable and performant code for a high-traffic website.
• Experience and/or knowledge of both Object Oriented Programming and Functional Programming principles.
• Willingness and desire to learn new and legacy frameworks.
• CSS pre-processing via SCSS.
• Experience with JS frameworks such as React, Redux, Backbone, or Marionette.
• Experience with Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery.

• Developing and implementing highly responsive UI
• Design software with great UX
• Produce clean and efficient code
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Management of entire end-to-end project pipeline

• Strong working knowledge of React JS and Redux
• Experience with JavaScript and CSS
• Experience with REST APIs
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Git knowledge is a plus
• Comfortable in working in Linux based environment