High 5 Games has an excellent opportunity for a DevOps Engineer who is looking to join a team that’s committed to working on cutting edge technology, and having fun while doing it.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and deliver software and infrastructure to improve the scalability, availability, performance, latency, and efficiency of High5games.
  • Build software systems and tools for scaling core site reliability systems and capabilities across the entire stack.
  • Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems with operability being the core tenet.
  • Collaborate with developers in the deployment and scaling of new product features to facilitate rapid iteration and massive growth.
  • Perform deep dives into reliability issues; partner with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes.
  • Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
  • Participate in the 24x7 on call rotation.

Minimum Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; may be substituted with equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years minimum experience in SRE, DevOps or Production Operations role
  • Hands on experience scripting with Python or Ruby, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
  • Networking (TCP/UDP, ICMP, DNS, etc), OSI Layers, infrastructure services and security
  • Knowledge of relational (MySQL) databases
  • Working knowledge of technologies listed below (but not limited to).
  • Competencies in *nix environments

Technologies

Puppet Jenkins Foreman mCollective CentOS Python Git Perforce Elasticsearch Logstash Graphite Observium IPA OSSEC AWS Rackspace OpenStack Java 8 Kafka Zookeeper Hadoop Hazelcast Fabric R10K (and related design concept) Apache Webservers Nginx.

Desired Skills and Experience

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