Cloud Platform Engineer

• Are you passionate about building a cloud infrastructure platform to meet business requirements?
• Are you able to demonstrate a mix of technical skills, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities?
• Are you continuously learning and looking for adoption of new technologies?

If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!

We are looking for a skilled Cloud Platform Engineer to join our DevOps team - where you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions. Your day-to-day work will be alongside other Cloud Platform Engineers in close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and enhancements. This also includes continually evaluating and optimizing the cloud platform infrastructure to improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance security.

What you will do

• Striving to build out the company's cloud infrastructure in line with the technical vision
• Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues
• Developing and improving existing infrastructure and delivery process
• Clearly communicating technical approaches with technical teams as well as the wider business
• Taking pride in building stable, scalable systems and maintaining a high degree of infrastructure uptime, both for production and development systems

Your skills will include

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years of commercial experience in DevOps or related fields
• A self-starting attitude with the ability to think on their feet and take the initiative to get things done
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Passionated with building scalable cloud-based infrastructure based on AWS
• Implement infrastructure provisioning with using of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) tools
• Experience of running Kubernetes clusters
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD such as GitLab CI
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, performance, and reliability
• Enthusiastic in writing clean and modular code that is easy to read, maintain, update, and scale
• Transparent about system outages, errors and mistakes and see them as a way to learn and improve
• Being able to work CET time zone

Nice to have:

• Experience of working with microservices and strong understanding of the benefits and challenges of working with this architecture pattern
• Experience of working with software teams using similar technologies (Go, Kotlin/JVM, TypeScript)
• Advanced level of hands-on experience with Linux ecosystem
• Experience of using Prometheus / Grafana for monitoring software and infrastructure performance
• Experience of running large MySQL and PostgreSQL instances at scale
• Extensive experience of working with distributed systems running messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ and Kafka

Perks of being a GRIDer

• 28+ Days Off: Balance work and life with ample paid time off
• "It's Complicated" Mental Health Support: We prioritize your well-being with comprehensive mental health resources
• Flexible Working Conditions: Work on your terms with flexible schedules and remote options
• Company-Wide Team Events: Foster camaraderie and network at our team gatherings and online events 
• Work Travel Opportunities: Explore new horizons with travel opportunities protected by CHUBB insurance
• Training and Development: Invest in your growth with our in-house training and per-person dedicated development budget
• Company Equipment: Leave the equipment needs to us so you can focus on unleashing your full potential
• High-Quality Merch: Show off your GRID pride with our premium swag

About our culture

• Flexibility: Work from the place that inspires and motivates you the most! From our awesome Berlin/ Wroclaw offices to the comfort of your own home. Meet up in person with your colleagues every so often, making use of the travel opportunities GRID offers
• Sustainability: We’re not a typical start-up. We want our employees to be rested and able to perform. We offer a generous vacation allowance (28+ days a year) and the opportunity to speak with professional counselors to support mental health - covered by the business
• Pragmatic: GRID thrives on being rational, allowing us to make the best decisions, rather than keeping to rigid processes and procedures that don’t work well for us
• Fostering growth: Empowering employees who are determined to grow by providing a self-development budget and strong career advancement opportunities. Support from your teammates to guide and encourage you to grow in your desired professional field
• Company culture: We believe a diverse industry is best served with an inclusive and diverse workforce. We have people based in over 24 countries with recent employee surveys showing over 98% workplace satisfaction
• Impactful: With a robust CI/CD process, and a full suite of automated tests our engineers ship daily, allowing you to make an impact on the product from day one with peace of mind
• Agile & Inclusively: We’ve developed our own kanban-based way of working that is constantly being improved and adapted by the self-organizing product-engineering teams. Opinions and ideas are valued from all
• Quality: Achieved by ensuring detailed stories and epics, high test coverage, a thorough code-review process, consciously taking on technical debt and an open culture of sharing opinions
• Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive

About GRID

Our mission is to unlock the potential of game data for everyone. The GRID Data Platform is a complete data infrastructure to source, manage, and distribute game data powering over 90 game publishers and tournament organizers, 350+ commercial partners, and communities or engaged fans of over 10 titles including CSGO, Dota2, PUBG, League of Legends and VALORANT.