Junior Site Reliability Engineer

At King millions of players connect to our games every day. They rely on our infrastructure to be up 24/7, 365 days a year to maximise their experience with our games.

The Platform team is responsible for the Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud infrastructure for the game and game related applications at King. We are currently discovering and exploring the options of moving some applications to GCP as well as running games on our Private cloud based on OpenNebula. To support that we are now looking for a junior site reliability engineer to join us on our journey.

We believe that you share our passion for learning new things, coding (primarily in Python), automation, continuous improvements, and actively building and upholding a great culture. Our collaboration with Google and CNCF will enable you to really dive deep into cloud technologies.

Your role within the Kingdom

Our job is to build effective, stable and reliable large scale infrastructure tools and services for our platform, games, and product teams. We strive to empower developers to be autonomous and flexible. We continuously work to create self service models for our tech in close collaboration with development teams.

We care deeply about our culture and believe in:

• An inclusive and diverse workplace
• Continuous improvement of everything we do
• Automation and coding as much as possible
• Collaboration and blame-free respectful problem solving
• Asking for help and sharing ideas openly

We engineer and provide the shared infrastructure platform serving all of our games, as well as environments for developers. This includes everything from working in our data centers, writing code for full stack orchestration and automation, troubleshooting distributed systems and resolving production incidents.

Skills to create thrills

• Comfortable navigating a linux console
• Experience using GCP, AWS or equivalent
• Ability to create scripts in Python, Golang or other language
• Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude
• BSc/Ba in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Experience running and deploying containers
• Experience in networking, routing, switching and firewalling
• Configuration Management tools like SaltStack and Ansible
• Orchestration with Terraform
• Ability to apply software engineering practices for tooling and automation