Lead DevOps Engineer

11 bit studios is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join their team. This role involves leading, mentoring, and managing a small team of DevOps engineers, ensuring smooth information flow between development teams, DevOps, and IT. The successful candidate will develop and execute DevOps strategies, improve efficiency, and maintain automation scripts, build engineering, and internally hosted services like Perforce, contributing to meaningful game experiences.

Must Have

• Leading, mentoring, and managing a small team of DevOps engineers
• Maintaining smooth information flow and cooperation between game development teams, DevOps and IT
• Developing and executing DevOps strategies
• Ensuring stable functioning and continuous improvement of automation scripts, build engineering, supportive services and internally hosted services
• At least 5 years of professional experience in a DevOps position, preferably in a game development environment
• Experience in project management, team coordination or a leadership position
• Professional experience with automation, build engineering, coding, data management, infrastructure management, and/or online service management
• Solid professional understanding of Python
• Experience with compiling and deploying game builds (preferably using Unreal Engine)
• Experience with Ansible or similar deployment and automation tools
• Experience working with Docker
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus or any other monitoring tool

Good to Have

• Professional experience with continuous integration/delivery systems
• Deep knowledge of at least one version control system, preferably Perforce
• Very good communication skills
• Fluent English

Perks & Benefits

• Psychological support/care
• Private medical package
• Free weekly yoga in the office
• Multisport
• Team training budget
• In-office library
• English/Polish classes
• Office near Metro Stadion Narodowy and Dworzec Wschodni stations
• Dog-friendly office
• In-house gym
• No dress code
• Car and bike parking
• Chill zone
• Video, board and arcade games
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work (3 days from office, 2 days from home + additional pool of remote days per year)
• 20 or 26 days of fully-paid holiday leave
• International working environment
• Attractive bonus system – annual bonus, motivation programme
• Transparent salary brackets
• Attendance in game dev events
• Relocation budget for candidates from abroad
• Referral program
• Annual company events
• Merch/swag
• Preferential loans

If you are looking for a place where you can develop by helping to create meaningful experiences that have a real impact, then you are more than welcome to join us on board.

Your main responsibilities:

• Leading, mentoring, and managing a small team of DevOps engineers, fostering collaboration, setting clear goals, and providing guidance.
• Maintaining smooth information flow and cooperation between game development teams, DevOps and IT.
• Developing and executing DevOps strategies aligned with organizational goals, improving efficiency, and reducing production bottlenecks.
• Ensuring stable functioning and continuous improvement of automation scripts, build engineering, supportive services and internally hosted services (like Perforce).

Job requirements

Things we’re looking for:

• At least 5 years of professional experience in a DevOps position, preferably in a game development environment.
• Experience in project management, team coordination or a leadership position.
• Professional experience with automation, build engineering, coding, data management, infrastructure management, and/or online service management.
• Professional experience with continuous integration/delivery systems.
• Solid professional understanding of Python.
• Experience with compiling and deploying game builds (preferably using Unreal Engine).
• Deep knowledge of at least one version control system, preferably Perforce.
• Experience with Ansible or similar deployment and automation tools.
• Experience working with Docker.
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus or any other monitoring tool.
• Very good communication skills.
• Fluent English.

What we offer

• Health and Wellness
• psychological support/care
• private medical package
• free weekly yoga in the office
• Multisport
• Development
• team training budget
• in-office library
• English/Polish classes
• Our office
• near Metro Stadion Narodowy and Dworzec Wschodni stations
• dog-friendly
• in-house gym
• no dress code
• car and bike parking
• chill zone
• video, board and arcade games
• Working conditions
• flexible working hours
• hybrid work (3 days from office, 2 days from home + additional pool of remote days per year)
• 20 or 26 days of fully-paid holiday leave
• international working environment
• Fair compensation
• attractive bonus system – annual bonus, motivation programme
• transparent salary brackets
• Events and more
• attendance in game dev events
• relocation budget for candidates from abroad
• referral program
• annual company events
• merch/swag
• preferential loans