Senior DevOps Engineer

4 Months ago • 4 Years + • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Carry1st, you'll architect and maintain dynamic systems automating development and handling millions of daily active users. Responsibilities include optimizing AWS cloud deployment for performance, security, and cost; deploying automation tools (CI/CD); building and maintaining development, staging, and production environments; designing procedures for system monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance; and securing access to sensitive data. You'll work with technologies like EC2/ELB, Route53, S3, web sockets, MySQL, MemCached, Redis, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Jira, Chef, and Hashicorp. The role requires strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment.
Must have:
  • 4+ years DevOps experience in AWS
  • Experience optimizing web sockets & databases
  • CI/CD pipeline expertise
  • Experience with RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Jira, Chef, Hashicorp
  • System monitoring & troubleshooting
Perks:
  • Remote work
  • Co-working excursions
  • Awesome equipment
  • Remote working allowance ($600/year)
  • Learning & development opportunities
  • Social events
  • Birthday leave
  • Company shares

Job Details

Description

Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. Across our publishing and Pay1st business lines, we are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Stillfront. We are backed by top investors like: a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony and Nas.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and maintaining dynamic systems which can automate development and handle millions of daily active users.

You will...

  • Optimize AWS cloud deployment for improved performance, security, and cost management
  • Deploy automation tools (CI / CD) to facilitate the development and deployment of builds
  • Building and maintaining development, staging, and production environments
  • Set up and execute progressive load tests simulating massive scale involving web sockets
  • Design procedures for system monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance 
  • Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys

Requirements

What makes you a great candidate?

  • 4+ years working as a DevOps Engineer in the AWS environment, with experience in services like EC2 / ELB, Route53, S3
  • Experience optimizing web sockets with significant loads and database architecture (MySQL) and caching technologies (MemCached, Redis)
  • Experience with technologies such as RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Jira, Chef, and Hashicorp
  • Self-motivation, problem solving and ability to work in a distributed team environment

Benefits

What will it be like to work at Carry1st?

Carry1st is a fast-paced and dynamic place to work. Our team is diverse and global as we operate fully remotely across 25+ countries. At Carry1st, you will have the opportunity to…

  • Build awesome, industry-changing products, every day
  • Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming and fintech
  • Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
  • Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create 

Some additional perks…

  • Co-working excursions: Travel to meet your colleagues in cities around the world
  • Awesome equipment: Get everything you need to work effectively 
  • Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience
  • Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events
  • Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
  • Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day  

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Join us!

Learn more about Carry1st…

  • Andreessen Horowitz shared why they invested in Carry1st
  • VentureBeat announced that Carry1st has raised $27 million to develop and publish mobile games in Africa
  • Remerge hosted Cordel on a podcast to discuss Carry1st and the African gaming market

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Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, fintech, and web3, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. We develop, license, and publish games and monetize them effectively with our proprietary platform. We are backed by blue-chip investors like: Andreessen Horowitz, Google, Riot Games, Bitkraft, and Nas.

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