DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 2 – 5 years of experience working on AWS-based production systems. This role strictly requires hands-on experience managing production databases (MongoDB / SQL).

👉 Please apply only if you have hands-on experience managing databases in a production environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with focus on availability, security, and cost.
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and containerized applications in production.
• Manage and scale production databases (backup, replication, performance tuning, upgrades).
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Manage MongoDB or SQL in high-scale environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Handle production incidents, on-call support, and RCA.
• Automate ops tasks using Bash / Python.

Requirements:

• 2 – 5 years of DevOps experience.
• Hands-on experience managing production databases (MongoDB or SQL).
• Strong AWS & Kubernetes (EKS) experience in production.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / ArgoCD), Terraform, Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Scripting: Bash / Python.
• Immediate joiners preferred.

Experience with MongoDB is preferred, though candidates with solid SQL database experience will also be considered.

• 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!

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Key Responsibilities

•        As a part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the CI/CD components.

•        Creating and managing build and release pipelines with Azure DevOps and Jenkins.

•        Assist in planning and reviewing application architecture and design to promote an efficient deployment process.

•        Troubleshoot server performance issues & handle the continuous integration system.

•        Automate infrastructure provisioning using ARM Templates and Terraform.

•        Monitor and Support deployment, Cloud-based and On-premises Infrastructure.

•        Diagnose and develop root cause solutions for failures and performance issues in the production environment.

•        Deploy and manage Infrastructure for production applications

•        Configure security best practices for application and infrastructure

Essential Requirements

•        Good hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS & GCP. (Preferably Azure)

•        Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles.

•        Strong work experience with CI/CD implementation tools like Azure DevOps, Team city, Octopus Deploy, AWS Code Deploy, and Jenkins.

•        Experience of writing automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.

•        GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and Continuous Integration (CI) system.

•        Understanding of secure DevOps practices

Good to Have -

•        Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash

•        Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, Scrum/Kanban, etc.

•        Experience with Build technologies and cloud services. (Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS Code Deploy)

•        Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.

•        Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment.

•        Must have a good understanding of SDLC.

•        Knowledge of Linux, Windows server, Monitoring tools, and Shell scripting.

•        Self-motivated; demonstrating the ability to achieve in technologies with minimal supervision.

•        Organized, flexible, and analytical ability to solve problems creatively.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for design, implementation, and continuous improvement on automated CI/CD infrastructure
• Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
• Responsible for designing topology to meet requirements for uptime, availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security
• Implement proactive measures for automated detection and resolution of recurring operational issues
• Lead operational support team manage incidents, document root cause and tracking preventive measures
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously validating/fixing vulnerability assessment reports and risk management
• Responsible for the design and development of tools, installation procedures
• Develops and maintains accurate estimates, timelines, project plans, and status reports
• Organize and maintain packaging and deployment of various internal modules and third-party vendor libraries
• Responsible for the employment, timely performance evaluation, counselling, employee development, and discipline of assigned employees.
• Participates in calls and meetings with customers, vendors, and internal teams on regular basis.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience with good technical knowledge regarding build, release, and systems engineering

Technical Skills:

• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Bitbucket
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Prometheus ,Grafana
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Sound understanding of cloud technologies preferably AWS technologies
• Linux, Windows, Scripting, Configuration Management, Build and Release Engineering
• 6 years of experience in DevOps practices, with a good understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
• Good scripting skills (Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash)
• Experience with standard continuous integration tools Jenkins/Bitbucket Pipelines
• Work on software configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook) and other business productivity tools
• Working knowledge on HSM and PKI (Good to have)

Location:

• Bangalore

Experience:

• 10 + Years.

Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of AWS.
• Implements AWS cloud platform.
• Infrastructure as Code, GitLab CI/CD, and DevOps standard methodologies
• scripting in Shell, Python, Ruby or any preferred scripting language

Terraform expertise is a MUST for this role.

a short exercise on terraform to all shortlisted candidates to demonstrate their hands-on skills on terraform before rolling out the offer

Desired Profile

 Providing expertise on all matters related to CI, CD and DevOps.

 Building and maintaining highly available production systems.

 Developing and maintaining release related documents, such as release plan, release notes etc.

 Ensuring quality releases and managing release and configuration change conflicts to resolution.

 Tracking release and publishing release notes.  Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates/ fixes.

 Onboard applications to DevOps process.

 Setup and configure build jobs.

 Create automated deployment scripts.

 Configure JIRA workflow, and integrate with Jenkins / Micro-services.

Qualification

 Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and have previous experience as a DevOps Engineer.

 AWS Certification will be a plus.

 Experience of automation and provisioning approaches, using tools such as Terraform & Cloud Formation

Skillset Required

 Solid experience within release management, infra architecture, CI&CD.

 Highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments.

 Proven experience of using Jenkins, Unix Shell Commands, Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes),

Java Programming, Groovy Script, Git, Code Branching Strategy, Maven, Gradle, JIRA, ECS, OpenShift.

About the client :

Asia’s largest global sports media property in history with a global broadcast to 150+ countries. As the world’s largest martial arts organization, they are a celebration of Asia’s greatest cultural treasure, and its deep-rooted Asian values of integrity, humility, honor, respect, courage, discipline, and compassion. Has achieved some of the highest TV ratings and social media engagement metrics across Asia with its unique brand of Asian values, world-class athletes, and world-class production. Broadcast partners include Turner Sports, Star India, TV Tokyo, Fox Sports, ABS-CBN, Astro, ClaroSports, Bandsports, Startimes, Premier Sports, Thairath TV, Skynet, Mediacorp, OSN, and more. Institutional investors include Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, GIC, Iconiq Capital, Greenoaks Capital, and Mission Holdings. Currently has offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Milan, Beijing, Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta, and Bangalore.

Position : Devops Engineer – SDE3

As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products. This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+ countries!

Responsibilities

• Develop Collaborate in large-scale systems design discussions.

• Deploying and maintaining in-house/customer systems ensuring high availability, performance and optimal cost.

• Automate build pipelines. Ensuring right architecture for CI/CD

• Work with engineering leaders to ensure cloud security

• Develop standard operating procedures for various facets of Infrastructure services (CI/CD, Git Branching, SAST, Quality gates, Auto Scaling)

• Perform & automate regular backups of servers & databases. Ensure rollback and restore capabilities are Realtime and with zero-downtime.

• Lead the entire DevOps charter for ONE Championship. Mentor other DevOps engineers. Ensure industry standards are followed.

Requirements

• Overall 5+ years of experience in as DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

• B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute

• Experience in Azure is a must. AWS experience is a plus

• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and containers

• Proficiency in developing and deploying fully automated environments using Puppet/Ansible and Terraform

• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios/Icinga, Prometheus, AlertManager, Newrelic

• Good knowledge of source code control (git)

• Expertise in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment setup using Azure Pipeline or Jenkins

• Strong experience in programming languages. Python is preferred

• Experience in scripting and unit testing

• Basic knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases

• Strong Linux fundamentals

• Experience in SonarQube, Locust & Browserstack is a plus