The DevOps Engineer will design, deploy, and improve infrastructure services, support development environments, optimize cloud systems, implement security measures, and manage operational goals.
About Ex Populus:
Ex Populus is a leading game development studio with industry veterans from acclaimed companies like Pixar, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard, and more. Currently developing two highly anticipated games, Final Form and LAMOverse, the studio is a trailblazer in deploying games on the Xai Blockchain.
What You'll Do
- Work with engineers on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of key infrastructure services (e.g., logging, monitoring, alerting).
- Build development environments and tools for internal use.
- Assist developers in debugging local deployment and optimizing computing environments.
- Scope work, manage tasks, and estimate project delivery.
- Provide guidance on long-range platform requirements and operational guidelines, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement of service composability and availability.
- Develop and own best practices/methodologies for provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc. to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production.
- Analyze and comprehend how customers are using the platform and help drive continuous improvement of the offering based on that.
- Lead daily operational goals with the team.
- Uphold high standards of engineering excellence in coding, testing, and deployment.
- Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect against threats such as DDoS attacks, DNS vulnerabilities, and other cyber threats.
- Develop and enforce security best practices throughout the organization, enhancing system security and resilience against potential breaches.
What You'll Need
- 3+ years work experience in a DevOps or similar role
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience a plus
- Proficient with Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Typescript, and MongoDB
- Experience creating docker-compose and Kubernetes configurations and environments
- Experience optimizing and building infrastructure for NodeJS environments
- Experience building robust CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build
- In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux & MacOSX, networking, server, and cloud architectures
- Proven understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery
- Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
- A strong background in open source technology
Top Skills
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Linux
Macosx
MongoDB
Node.js
Terraform
Typescript
Ex Populus San Francisco, California, USA Office
535 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94105
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