Staff DevOps Engineer - Activision Blizzard Media

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Job Title: Staff DevOps Engineer

Reports To: Senior Engineering Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid)

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.

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

Your role within Activision Blizzard Media

The Staff 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 partners and serve as a liaison between engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Terraform modules for dogfooding and consumption by the engineering teams.

• Configure provisioning, and maintaining resources & infrastructure in the cloud.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to provide a feedback loop to the engineering teams.

• Build and maintain helm charts and customized modules for applications and services.

• Lead with DevOps standard methodologies and tooling within the DevOps team and provide these standard processes 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 standard processes 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.

Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud Providers, primarily GCP.

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

• Proficient in Linux operating systems with solid 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.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Groovy and Gradle

• Understanding the philosophy of Gitops

• Familiarity with Atlantis and Terragrunt

• Experience using application performance monitoring tools

• Azure Experience

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/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $111,780.00 - $206,882.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.