Senior Devops Engineer

April 15

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OtherSide Entertainment

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OtherSide Entertainment is a company that specializes in creating deeply immersive video games that draw players into richly imagined worlds. With a vision for player-powered gaming, OtherSide Entertainment empowers players to choose their own play-style and encourages collaboration to create unique shared narratives. The company fosters a collaborative work culture with a diverse and inclusive environment, and its team includes industry veterans and new talent. OtherSide Entertainment is known for pioneering the immersive simulation genre with classic games like Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief, and Deus Ex. The company operates remotely across the U. S. , with clusters in cities like Boston, Austin, LA, and Seattle.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🎮 Gaming

💰 Seed Round on 2015-01

📋 Description

• Manage complex cloud-based architectures using AWS services like EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, EFS, and VPC to support scalable, high-performance game development workflows. • Implement test automation and ensure pipeline efficiency across platforms. • Develop and enforce best practices for configuration management, infrastructure as code (IaC), and version control. • Define SLAs, SLOs and SLIs, runbooks, and other monitoring and incident response patterns, including automation and notifications. • Ensure OSE’s CI/CD cloud infrastructure is scalable, reliable, performant, and secure. • Work with game teams to build-out, maintain, and evolve the company’s build, test, and deployment systems and pipelines (CI/CD and test automation). • Architect and optimize continuous integration and deployment pipelines for building, testing, and deploying PC/console games using Jenkins, Git, and Perforce. • Design and implement custom metrics and dashboards to monitor performance, availability, and reliability of game servers, CI/CD pipelines, and backend services, ensuring operational transparency and actionable insights. • Profile and optimize system resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network) for both game servers and CI/CD systems, ensuring efficient resource allocation and minimizing bottlenecks in the pipeline and production environments. • Implement log aggregation and analysis systems using AWS CloudWatch Logs to centralize logs across services, making troubleshooting and incident response efficient. • Beyond gathering functional requirements, work diligently to surface quality attributes and other non functional specifications. • Develop and maintain concise software and technical design documents. • Work well as part of a collaborative and flexible team. • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in DevOps and gaming, recommending improvements to enhance our development processes.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years as a software development professional. • 3+ years developing build systems and pipelines for PC/console games in a professional environment. • 2+ years of AWS cloud services experience. • Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in high-pressure, real-time gaming environments. • Excellent written/verbal communications skills. • Proficient in pipeline design, management, and optimization. • Expertise in Jenkins as both a build tool and a CI/CD orchestrator. • Solid experience with AWS Elastic Container Service (or Kubernetes) and Docker. • Solid experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for provisioning AWS resources and infrastructure automation. • Skilled in setting up server and backend monitoring solutions, runbooks, and multiplayer load tests (AWS System Manager/CloudWatch, DataDog, PagerDuty). • Experience with PagerDuty or other escalation notification systems. • Have implemented and maintained site reliability runbooks, SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs • Some familiarity with TeamCity and Unreal Engine’s Horde. • Pro Git source control/repository admin skills. • Solid Perforce admin skills. • Great scripting abilities (Linux Shell, and/or Powershell)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Full suite of benefits available anywhere in the United States • Occasional travel for key meetings