Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer

About SYBO

SYBO is a mobile game developer company located in Copenhagen, Denmark. They're best known for being the developers of the most downloaded mobile game of all time, Subway Surfers, which at last count has over 2 billion downloads worldwide with tens of millions of people playing the game daily. While these are exciting numbers, they're not stopping there!

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Position

SYBO is looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer to join their Shared Game Services team, and own the studio's infrastructure and DevOps practice, specifically focusing on migrating our on-premise services to the cloud, and unifying our internal studio infrastructure with those of their games.

The Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer reports to the Technical Director, and works closely together with the back end, build tools and IT teams. She/he should have experience migrating enterprise services and applications into the cloud (preferably GCP) and architecting globally available and highly secure region-based cloud instances, integration with existing on-premise systems and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead SYBO's DevOps efforts and mature both the studio operations and the game development teams 
• Develop, improve, and document DevOps practices and procedures
• Provide architectural guidance for systems to improve security, scalability, reliability and adaptability of our growing GCP cloud footprint
• Provide senior expertise on migrating from on-premise services to native and/or hybrid-cloud
• Work closely with IT, client and server engineering to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements
• Develop and maintain in-depth understanding of the platform, applications, systems, and database architecture 
• Implement robust instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual)

Your qualification

• 5+ years of hands-on experience automating and managing cloud and on-premise infrastructure at scale 
• Strong knowledge of developing and deploying containerised applications, using Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure design, planning and implementation, preferably on GCP 
• Knowledge of setting up and using version control systems like Git and Perforce
• Deep knowledge of at least one modern scripting language (Python, etc.)
• Know why security matters and how you minimise vulnerabilities in both the code you write and the systems you design
• You are fluent in English
• A strong passion for both making and playing games!

Will be a plus

• Work experience in the games industry or entertainment companies
• Higher education degree in a relevant field
• Familiarity with C# and Unity
• Knowledge of networking and protocols

What we offer

• The best office location in Copenhagen
• A chance to do the work of your life
• An informal and creative culture 
• Health insurance for every employee
• A pension plan
• Healthy lunch buffet
• Currently 22 nationalities
• And a lot of fun - also when working
• Core values are:
  • We believe in Solid Products
  • We work in a Synced Community
  • We make our Performance Matter
  • We are Passionate Colleagues
  • Daily High Fives!