Avalanche Studios Group is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team to work on our upcoming AAA title Contraband. Contraband is a brand-new IP published by Xbox Game Studios.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure) at Avalanche Studios, you'll be joining a newly established team at the heart of our game development pipeline. We're looking for someone who can bridge the gap between our cutting-edge game development workflows and modern cloud infrastructure. At Avalanche Studios, we believe in empowering our engineers to innovate, and this role offers exceptional freedom to shape how we leverage cloud technologies in game development.
This is a unique opportunity to define best practices in an industry where traditional DevOps meets gaming-specific challenges. Whether it's orchestrating build pipelines for multi-platform game releases, implementing efficient asset management systems in the cloud, or designing innovative solutions for our global development teams, you'll have the freedom to craft solutions that directly impact how we create and deliver our games.
What You'll do
- Support and improve team-wide efforts on our existing pipelines, automation workflows, and systems
- Assist in planning, configuring, and deploying various open source and proprietary services on primarily Windows but also Linux, such as Azure DevOps, Perforce, Jenkins, and Sentry as well as new services to support the development team
- Provide support for build releases and patching, build deployment tool suite, code integration utilities, pre-commit testing utilities, and packaging pipeline
- Identify and optimize bottlenecks/inefficiencies in our CI/CD build automation systems
- Upgrade, evolve, and maintain existing infrastructure, including Jenkins server configurations and scripts and build scripts
- Interface and assist in supporting the studio; investigate complex problems and provide direct solutions
- Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional scripts and code
Who you are
- At least 5 years of DevOps experience, including some experience in a senior-level role
- Strong Windows (and Linux System) Administration skills
- Experience with Azure services such as DevOps, Blob Storage, Web apps, Azure Functions
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
- Good experience scripting languages including Powershell and Python
- Proficient in a majority of the following: Git, REST API’s, Docker (particularly with Windows Containers), automated testing structures and processes, build and/or content processing pipelines
- Commitment to code quality, documentation, and sound testing procedures
Nice to have
- Industry experience working or shipping AAA titles
- Basic familiarity with C#, C++
- Advanced knowledge of Azure
Note: Research shows under-represented groups in the industry (especially women) might not apply to a job if they don’t check off every requirement. At Avalanche, we’re more about your drive to learn and interest in tackling challenges than what’s on your resume! So don’t stress if you don’t tick every box— shoot us your application anyway! Diverse opinions and different experiences are what make our teams so great, not itemized lists of qualifications.
The Stockholm location
Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry. It’s a physical representation of our games – the lush vegetation of Just Cause and theHunter: Call of the Wild meets corroded metal straight out of Mad Max. It has everything you need to make it your creative base camp.
Our values
At Avalanche Studios Group, we create worlds beyond limits. But that’s not exclusive to our games, so we’re committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All Avalanchers have a shared responsibility to create an open work environment where everyone is treated equally and respectfully. Being part of our world is not contingent on your heritage, your gender, or sexual orientation. It’s all about your passion and creativity.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please register below and provide your CV in English. We review applications continuously. All further studio-related information is provided under a non-disclosure agreement.
At Avalanche Studios Group we're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our passionate team, but please not that relocation assistance is not available for this role.
