Tech Lead (System Requirement and Data Management Lead)

Location: Malleshwaram/MG Road

Work: Initially Onsite and later Hybrid

We are committed to becoming a true DevOps house and want your help. The role will

require close liaison with development and test teams to increase effectiveness of

current dev processes. Participation in an out-of-hours emergency support rotationally

will be required. You will be shaping the way that we use our DevOps tools and

innovating to deliver business value and improve the cadence of the entire dev team.

Required Skills:

Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services suite (EC2, ECS, Loadbalancing, VPC,

S3, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, IAM etc)

• Hands on knowledge on container orchestration tools – Must have: AWS ECS and Good to have: AWS EKS

• Good knowledge on creating and maintaining the infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Solid experience with CI-CD tools like Jenkins, git and Ansible

• Working experience on supporting Microservices (Deploying, maintaining and

monitoring Java web-based production applications using docker container)

• Strong knowledge on debugging production issues across the services and

technology stack and application monitoring (we use Splunk & Cloudwatch)

• Experience with software build tools (maven, and node)

• Experience with scripting and automation languages (Bash, groovy,

JavaScript, python)

• Experience with Linux administration and CVEs scan - Amz Linux, Ubuntu

• 4+ years in AWS DevOps Engineer

Optional skills:

• Oracle/SQL database maintenance experience

• Elastic Search

• Serverless/container based approach

• Automated testing of infrastructure deployments

• Experience of performance testing & JVM tuning

• Experience of a high-volume distributed eCommerce environment

• Experience working closely with Agile development teams

• Familiarity with load testing tools & process

• Experience with nginx, tomcat and apache

• Experience with Cloudflare

Personal attributes

The successful candidate will be comfortable working autonomously and

independently.

They will be keen to bring an entire team to the next level of delivering business value.

A proactive approach to problem

• 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!

Do Your Thng 

https://doyourthng.com/ 

DYT - Do Your Thing, is an app, where all social media users can share brands they love with their followers and earn money while doing so! We believe everyone is an influencer. Our aim is to democratise social media and allow people to be rewarded for the content they post. How does DYT help you? It accelerates your career through collaboration opportunities with top brands and gives you access to a community full of experts in the influencer space. 

Role: DevOps 

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Job Description:

We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to join our Engineering team. The candidate will be working with our engineers and interact with the tech team for high quality web applications for a product.

Required Experience

• Devops Engineer with 2+ years of experience in development and production operations supporting for Linux & Windows based applications and Cloud deployments (AWS/GC stack)
• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipeline
• Exposure to managing LAMP stack-based applications
• Experience Resource provisioning automation using tools such as CloudFormation, terraform and ARM Templates.
• Experience in working closely with clients, understanding their requirements, design and implement quality solutions to meet their needs.
• Ability to take ownership on the carried-out work
• Experience coordinating with rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solutions.
• Experience deploying Docker based applications
• Experience with AWS services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Experience

• Exposure to AWS, google cloud and Azure Cloud
• Experience in Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform
• Build Monitoring tools and respond to alarms triggered in production environment
• Willingness to quickly become a member of the team and to do what it takes to get the job done
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment and listen and learn from stakeholders
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic and incorporate company values in your everyday work.

• Good experience in AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), IAM, RDS, API Gateway, Cognito, etc.
• Using GIT, SonarQube, Ansible, Nexus, Nagios, etc.
• Strong experience in creating, importing and launching volumes with security groups, auto-scaling, Load Balancers, Fault-tolerant
• Experience in configuring Jenkins job with related Plugins for     Building, Testing, and Continuous Deployment to accomplish the complete CI/CD.

• Develop and Maintain IAC using Terraform and Ansible
• Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
• Deal with challenges associated with scale.
• Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
• Thrive in an environment that uses Elasticsearch extensively.
• Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
• Champion best development practices and provide mentorship

• Terraform o Ansible
• *nix and shell scripting
• Elasticsearch
• Circle CI
• CloudFormation
• Python
• Packer
• Docker
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Challenges of scale
• Production support
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform