DevOps Team Lead (Unannounced Project)

Job Overview

Does the challenge of working on a new AAA unannounced project excite you? Here at DPS Games you can do exactly that. We are based in Guildford, self-publishing our own title, and are fully funded by Wargaming, one of the biggest publishers of F2P games in the world. Our studio leadership are industry veterans, and we believe we’re building a great studio culture in the best studio space in Guildford. If you think you have the talent to join a world class team, we’d love you to join us!

Reports to

This role reports to the Technical Director

What will you do?

• Manage, mentor and train team of DevOps and Build engineers
• Optimize DevOps practices and methodologies for efficiency and scalability
• Plan and architect project's development, staging and production infrastructure
• Guide career development of the team members
• Oversee incident management and troubleshooting
• Ensure 24/7 game clusters operation
• Write documentation and SOPs
• Cooperate with technical, QA, live-ops and release teams to provide stable and in-time version releases

What are we looking for?

• Experience working as Lead DevOps Engineer, DevOps Team Lead or similar role
• Experience operating high load systems/products in production
• Scripting and/or programming experience with Python and Bash
• Experience automating infrastructure deployment and managing scalable applications using Kubernetes in a CI/CD environment
• Strong experience with public cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Configuration management experience (Ansible, Puppet)
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools (Teamcity, Jenkins, Gitlab)
• Experience in optimizing performance and cost management in cloud environments
• Experience building monitoring and logging systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki)
• Experience in managing databases RDBMS and NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB

What additional skills will help you stand out?

• Experience in operating session-based multiplayer games
• Programming using one of the following languages: Python, C/C++, Java/Kotlin
• Strong background in Linux administration
• Working with DevSecOps practices

Work mode

Hybrid (3 days of work from the office)

Benefits

Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Guildford include:

• 5 weeks of Annual Leave per calendar year
• Dog-friendly office
• Onsite canteen (with an endless supply of snacks and drinks)
• Video game areas
• Health Insurance (including family coverage), Life Insurance, Pension contribution
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Wellbeing perks (Mental Health Days, Dedicated Well-being room, Team of Mental Heath First Aiders)
• Career development and education opportunities within the company
• Employee discounts
• Personal Gaming Account 
• Company events 
• Seniority Awards 
• Referral program - you can recommend the best talents to the Company and receive a reward 
• Working in one of the main European hubs for game development
• Startup within a company with 25 years of experience on the market
• To learn more about our studio in Guildford, follow this link: https://dpsgames.com/studio