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.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; may be substituted with equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ year’s 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.