Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job Description:

Reports To: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid)

Your Role Within the Kingdom

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for our Ads Engineering team, empowering ground-breaking mobile advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Ads Platform.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide technical prowess and work to improve engineering efficiency by automating releases and deployments, building pipelines, infrastructure, automating workflows, and continually measuring application performance. The engineer will be responsible for implementing tools to eliminate manual operations and develop automated, repeatable processes. The engineer will be responsible for improving the developer experience, team throughput, and speed of development. The engineer must effectively collaborate with engineering stakeholders and serve as a liaison between engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining Terraform modules for dogfooding and consumption by the engineering teams.

• Configuring, provisioning, and maintaining resources and infrastructure in the cloud.

• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to provide a feedback loop to the engineering teams.

• Building and maintaining helm charts and kustomize modules for applications and services.

• Leading with DevOps best practices and tooling within the DevOps team and providing these best practices to the adjacent engineering teams.

• Operate on an on-call rotation and be available in case issues arise from the DevOps perspective.

• Continually self-educate on the latest updates to Cloud Services, Infrastructure, Security, and best practices with regard to Software Engineering.

• Build and sustain observability dashboards and metrics, alerting for platform infrastructure and supporting observability and incident management across the engineering organization.

Skills to Create Thrills 

• Experience with Cloud Providers, primarily GCP.

• Proficient in containerization (Docker) technology, Kubernetes, and other orchestration technologies.

• Proficient in Linux operating systems with strong command line interface (CLI) skills.

• Proficient in the building and configuration of Terraform modules.

• Understanding and experience building Helm charts or Kustomize modules.

• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring philosophies along with tooling knowledge of Datadog, PagerDuty, Graylog, etc.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD and the tools used to provide this (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Drone, GitHub Actions, etc).

• Strong understanding of networking and networking topologies.

• Understanding the philosophy of GitOps

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Groovy and Gradle

• Familiarity with Atlantis and Terragrunt

• Understanding of OWASP top 10 and SDL

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women, veterans, and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. 

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®. The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community. 

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications needs to be in English.

Discover King at careers.king.com

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.