DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes & Cloud Services)

Intrepid Studios - San Diego, CA

Full-time

San Diego, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Intrepid Studios' Ashes of Creation team is seeking a highly motivated and talented DevOps Engineer to enhance our MMORPG experience. This role involves managing cloud services and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring system performance, and implementing best practices in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage existing Kubernetes clusters deployed on both GCP (GKE) and AWS (EKS).
• Manage deployment of cloud services, including databases, message brokers, caching components, and custom applications.
• Manage Kubernetes and cloud service updates.
• Maintain and improve local development environment and cloud deployment scripts.
• Manage cloud monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for observability and alerting.
• Manage system backup and failure recovery.
• Deploy data analysis tools and visual dashboards to assess system health.
• Identify and troubleshoot system issues, providing timely updates to stakeholders and ensuring system uptime.
• Provide analysis of system performance during playtests and other tests.
• Document deployment, operating, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Coordinate internal and 3rd-party maintenance windows, providing status updates.
• Implement DevOps best practices with a focus on automation.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Expertise managing complex production Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Passion for Kubernetes and expertise in modern usage.
• Experience with both GCP and AWS cloud providers.
• Experience with Helm and Docker.
• Experience administering SQL and NoSQL databases like CockroachDB and MongoDB.
• Experience with metrics frameworks like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with enterprise logging services like Datadog.
• Experience with common programming environments like Python, Go, and Javascript.
• Experience with advanced Linux administration, including network stack, TCP/IP, DNS, filesystems, resource scheduling, and process management.
• Ability to solve service issues under pressure on a production system.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.