Platform Engineer

5 Days ago • 1-3 Years

About the job

SummaryBy Outscal

Platform Engineer with strong Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD, and Monitoring/Logging skills. Experience with Helm, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, and automation scripting required. Experience with GitOps and AWS is a plus.

About Nexters

Nexters is an international game development company that strives to introduce the joy of core gaming experiences to casual players. In 2021 we went public and listed on the NASDAQ (GDEV). Nexters is part of the GDEV holding, which includes not only Nexters, but also Cubic Games, Dragon Machines, Royal Ark, Game Gears, and RJ Games studios. Our people work worldwide from offices in Cyprus, Armenia, and Kazakhstan or remotely. We want brilliant professionals who love building great games in a team with one of the best cultures.

About our team

Our team is central in relation to gaming and service teams. Almost every team has a release engineer who closely collaborates with us. We are responsible for databases, queues, virtual machines, and various infrastructure services such as Vault, VictoriaMetrics/Grafana, etc. The team follows the approach of managing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform/Terragrunt and SaltStack. Most of the resources are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our tasks include maintaining the functionality of existing team services, as well as selecting new and reliable technologies. We are looking for a strong engineer who can both maintain existing solutions and conduct research to propose more advanced, new ones.

Our stack and style

  • We host our resources on AWS: virtual machines in EC2, containers in EKS
  • Flexible scaling through Amazon Auto Scaling Groups
  • Fully IaC model managed with Terraform/Terragrunt and SaltStack
  • We use GitLab as the CI/CD platform
  • Metrics and alerting: VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Alertmanager
  • Logging: ELK, Vector, Loki, Clickhouse
  • We use MySQL (Percona Cluster), PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, AWS RDS/Aurora, AWS DocumentDB, Atlas MongoDB as databases
  • For queues and caching, we use Kafka, Redis, AWS ElastiCache.


What you’ll be doing

  • Maintaining and developing Kubernetes
  • Integrating Kubernetes in team’s work
  • Managing cloud environments for different stages of the release cycle:
  1. Setting up template environments for developers
  2. Improving the current infrastructure with the focus on automation
  • Maintaining the infrastructure: collect, store and analyze metrics, logs; alerting and alert escalation when needed
  • Consulting and guiding developers in questions related to the server infrastructure
  • Choosing new tools and updating current ones

We hope that you 

  • Kubernetes: you understand how its components work and have experience in its maintenance 
  • Helm: you can create your own chart and understand other charts easily 
  • Linux: you have advanced skills in Linux Administration 
  • CI/CD: you can write pipelines and have experience with any CI/CD tool, preferably with GitLab
  • Monitoring/Logging: you have at least 1-year experience in Prometheus and Grafana (preferably Loki, Vector and Elastic Stack)
  • Python/Go/Bash: you can write automation scripts for repeated tasks 
  • GitOps: you have general understanding of the approach and want to follow it

What we offer

  • Healthcare
    Medical care program (including dental service) or medical care compensation are available for you wherever you wish to work. The medical care program is also available for your family members if you choose to work from our official locations – Cyprus, Armenia, and Kazakhstan.
  • Work, life, and balance
    We offer a fair amount of paid vacation days and sick leave. You can work at one of our comfortable offices in official locations or from home.
  • Sports
    You can choose various sports activities like yoga, football, and volleyball in our official locations.
  • Relocation support
    A relocation package is available for you if you decide to join us in one of our official locations.
  • Skills improvement
    Let's learn languages: you can visit online English language courses. Greek and Armenian language lessons are available for everyone who works in Cyprus or Armenia. Our company encourages people of Nexters to take part in game jams, hackathons, and relevant conferences and meetups as expert speakers.
  • Events
    Our events are legendary – ask anyone who already works at Nexters. There are strategic sessions, workshops, parties, contests, and other activities every year.
  • Community & ESG
    We are proud of our local communities and support employees’ social initiatives. Dream big, act big: Nexters contribute to gaming’s positive impact on the world, hold a sustainability strategy, and take part in charity projects all over the world.

About The Company

Nexters is an international game development company which strives to introduce the joy of core gaming experiences to casual players on mobile and desktop.

Thanks to our hit games like Hero Wars, Island Questaway, Throne Rush, and others, we’ve reached over 200 million installs worldwide, built a team of 700+ inspired game developers, and become one of the top five independent mobile game companies in Europe.

We are publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol GDEV and have tremendous plans for the future. We welcome new talent to join in our mutual growth and help establish us as the new leader in the industry.

In June 2023 Nexters evolves into gaming and entertainment holding company, GDEV Inc (which also included: Dragon Machines, Cubic Games, Royal Ark, Game Gears and RJ Games)

Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)

Cyprus (Remote)

Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)

Cyprus (Remote)

Armenia (Remote)

Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)

Cyprus (Remote)

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