Ex Populus is hiring a
DevOps Engineer

Summary

The job is for a DevOps professional at Ex Populus, a game development studio. The role involves managing infrastructure services, building development environments, assisting developers, scoping work, providing guidance, analyzing platform usage, leading daily operational goals, implementing security measures, and enforcing security best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience in a DevOps or similar role
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proficient with Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Typescript, and MongoDB
• Experience creating docker-compose and Kubernetes configurations and environments
• Experience optimizing and building infrastructure for NodeJS environments
• Experience building robust CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux & MacOSX, networking, server, and cloud architectures
• Proven understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
• A strong background in open source technology

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of key infrastructure services
• Build development environments and tools for internal use
• Assist developers in debugging local deployment and optimizing computing environments
• Scope work, manage tasks, and estimate project delivery
• Provide guidance on long-range platform requirements and operational guidelines, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement of service composability and availability
• Develop and own best practices/methodologies for provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc. to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production
• Analyze and comprehend how customers are using the platform and help drive continuous improvement of the offering based on that
• Lead daily operational goals with the team
• Uphold high standards of engineering excellence in coding, testing, and deployment
• Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect against threats such as DDoS attacks, DNS vulnerabilities, and other cyber threats