Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Miniclip is looking for an experienced Mid Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering Team in our Lisbon (Portugal) Studio.

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Engineer with a strong background in Infrastructure as Code with an extensive experience with AWS services, Kubernetes, Linux system administration, and modern infrastructure automation tools.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, optimizing cloud infrastructure and streamlining DevOps processes.

This is a full-time, permanent, hybrid position. Please apply only if you have the right to work in Portugal.

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

Cloud Infrastructure Management:

● Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions.

● Ensure fault-tolerant, scalable and disaster recovery of cloud solutions.

● Monitor and optimize cloud resources for cost-efficiency and performance.

Kubernetes & Containerization:

● Deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters for scalable containerized workloads.

● Automated Kubernetes cluster management with Helm charts and GitOps tools like ArgoCD.

● Migrating legacy applications to modern/containerized solutions.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

● Automate infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

● Developed and maintained Chef cookbooks for configuration management across Linux servers.

● Developing and maintaining scripts and tools for automating infrastructure provisioning and deployment.

Collaboration and Communication:

● Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and effective communication.

● Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members and other teams.

● Participate in regular team meetings and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

What are we looking for?

● Minimum of 1-2 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role.

● Minimum of 2-3 years of expertise in using AWS Services, such as EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, and CloudFront

● Minimum of 1 years of experience in AWS containerized services, such as ECS, EKS, Fargate and containerized tools such as Docker, Helm, ArgoCD

● Highly proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation

● Strong background in software development, with proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Rust.

About Miniclip

Miniclip is a global leader in digital games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 400 million monthly and 70 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 10 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 18 studios. 

Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the digital games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally. 

To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies, which have generated more than 10 billion downloads, include the following digital games: 8 Ball Pool™, Subway Surfers™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™, Carrom Pool™, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals ™, Pure Sniper ™, Puzzle Page ™, Head Ball 2™, Motorsport Manager™, Darts of Fury™, Ultimate Golf™, Mini Football ™, Triple Match 3D ™, Agar.io™ and PowerWash Simulator ™. 

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