DevOps Engineer

• Install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Improve Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work with other engineers to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues.

• Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Kubernetes development experience
• Linux/Unix experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• 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!

Required Competencies:

• 3+ years experience in automating application and database deployments using most of the above-mentioned technologies
• Strong experience in .NET and MS SQL
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new tools/technologies
• Ability to excel within an "Agile" environment
• Infrastructure automation is a plus

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Application Deployments - Azure DevOps YAML build pipelines and classic release pipelines, PowerShell and bash scripts, Docker containers
• Database Deployments - DACPAC
• SCM - BitBucket
• Infrastucure - Windows Servers, Linux Servers, SQL Server, Azure SQL and many more Azure resources
• Application Types - Web APIs, Web Forms, Windows Services, Task Scheduler Jobs, SQL Server Agent jobs
• Development/Test Stack - VueJS, .NET Framework, .NET Core, Python, TypeScript, PowerBI, SSIS, SQL Server, NUnit, XUnit, Selenium, Postman, Sentry
• Currently exploring ARM, Terraform and Pulumi for infrastructure automation
• Automate application/database builds and deployments and write scripts to automate repetitive tasks
• Optimize and improve existing builds/deployments
• Deploy applications/databases to different environments
• Setup/configure infrastructure on Azure
• Create/merge branches in git
• Help with debugging post-deployment issues
• Managing access to BitBucket, Sentry, VMs and Azure resources

Looking for an experienced candidate with strong development and programming experience, knowledge preferred-

• Cloud computing (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Coming from a strong development background and has programming experience with Java and/or NodeJS (other programming languages such as Groovy/python are a big bonus)
• Proficient with Unix systems and bash
• Proficient with git/GitHub/GitLab/bitbucket

Desired skills-

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Experience in any scripting language (Phyton, Shell Scripting, Java Script)
• NGINX / Load Balancer
• Splunk / ETL tools

•   10+ years of work experience in IT with 5+ years in software development or application architecture and 3+ years in solutions architecture

•   Thorough understanding of cloud native architectures, microservice architecture design patterns, containers, container orchestration, DevOps practices and security

•   Professional experience in software engineering and architecture design

•   Proven experience developing well architected AWS cloud infrastructure and solutions

•   Experience in providing technical leadership and mentoring

•   In-depth understanding of current security best practices

•   Understand business analysis techniques and processes

•   3+ years of programming experience with JavaScript and/or TypeScript

•   Strong understanding of object-oriented programming

KNOLSKAPE is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build Educational platforms and products that make learning experiential for leaders of the world.

DevOps Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. If you have a solid background in working with cloud technologies, setting up efficient deployment processes, and are motivated to work with diverse and talented teams, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.

Skills and Experience

• 2+ years of experience in building infrastructure experience with Cloud Providers ( AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Build and Deployment Management (Gitlab).
• Experience in writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, and Terraform based.
• Good experience in building pipelines with YAML-based knowledge of the GitLab environment.
• System Administration skill set.
• Docker/Kubernetes container infrastructure and orchestration
• Deploying/operating NodeJs/PHP/LAMP framework-based clusters with infrastructure.
• Monitoring, metrics collection, and distributed tracing
• Infrastructure as code” – Experience with Terraform preferred.
• Strong AWS Deployment Experience
• Provide system-level technical support
• Desire to learn new technologies while supporting existing
  
  

Roles and Responsibilities

• End to End-building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines etc.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large scale systems
• Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual)
• Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
• Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and processes you are responsible for securing our infrastructure.
• Agile software development practices
• Understand IT processes, including architecture, design, implementation, and operations
• Open Source development experience
• Self-motivated, able and willing to help where help is needed
• Able to build relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility

Location: Bangalore

About KNOLSKAPE

KNOLSKAPE is an end-to-end learning and assessment platform for accelerated employee development. Our core belief is that desired business outcomes are achieved best when learning needs are aligned with business requirements, but traditional methodologies for capability development require a new, more updated approach. Keeping with this philosophy, we offer engaging, immersive, and experiential learning and assessment solutions - strategy cascading, business acumen, change management, leadership pipeline, digital capabilities, and talent assessments. Leveraging a blended omnichannel delivery model, KNOLSKAPE offers instructor-led classroom sessions, live virtual sessions, and self-paced courses to suit every learning need.

More than 300 clients in 25 countries have benefited from KNOLSKAPE's award-winning experiential solutions. A 120+ strong team based out of offices in Singapore, India, Malaysia, and the USA serves a rapidly growing global client base across industries such as banking and finance, consulting, IT, FMCG, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, engineering, auto, government and academia.

KNOLSKAPE is a global Top 20 gamification company, recipient of numerous Brandon Hall awards, and has been recognized as a company to watch for in the Talent Management Space, by Frost & Sullivan, and as a disruptor in the learning space, by Bersin by Deloitte.

• He has to perform architectural analysis, and he should know how to design enterprise-level systems.
• He should know how to design and simulate tools for the perfect delivery of systems.
• He should know how to design, develop, and maintain systems, processes, procedures to deliver a high-quality service design.
• He has to work with other members of a team and other departments to establish healthy communication and information flow.
• He should know how to deliver a high-performing solution architecture that can support the development efforts of a business.
• He has to plan, design, and configure the most typical business solutions as needed.
• He has to prepare technical documents and other presentations for multiple solutions areas.
• He has to be sure that the best practices for configuration management are carried our as it was needed.
• He has to work on customer specifications, analyze them, and conduct the best product recommendations associated with the platform

Requirements

• AWS Solution Architect 9-10 Years
• Responsible for managing applications on public cloud (AWS) infrastructure.
• Responsible for larger migrations of applications from VM to cloud/cloud-native.
• Responsible for setting up monitoring for cloud/cloud-native-based infrastructure and applications.
• MUST: AWS Solution Architect Professional certification.