Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago

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Job Description

Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is a part of the leading free-to-play MMO game developer and publisher, with over 65 million subscribers and multiple studios worldwide.  We are looking for the right individuals to join us and help deliver great user experiences in both our highly-successful current game, World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition, as well as our upcoming projects.

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer capable of evolving infrastructure, server, and deployment strategies. If you’re an experienced engineering lead, who’s excited about games, and excited about working in a creative environment with new technologies and innovating to solve problems, this could be the perfect role for you.

Your challenges:

  • Motivate, mentor and manage a team of web engineers to ensure on-time delivery of back-end features.
  • Collaborate and communicate with web services team and others in order to deliver the best online experience to our players.
  • Lead and contribute to the DevOps team with regards to maintaining and building out our current infrastructure and servers operations.
  • Deploy, configure and maintain multiple Web servers containing numerous game infrastructure services.
  • Monitor performance and availability of our services
  • Solve issues effectively with minimal possible downtime.
  • Interact with game team on various tasks that lie between game servers and Web. 

What you need:

  • Proven ability to lead a small to mid-sized team of software engineers.
  • Experience with Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu etc) administration and operation
  • Solid shell scripting experience (sh/bash).
  • Knowledge and ability to use basic Linux command
  • Exposure to Apache/Nginx/MySql/MemCached
  • SQL language – query creation and optimization.
  • Knowledge of Python is preferable, however experience with other languages such as Perl/PHP/Ruby are acceptable

Even better if you haves:

  • Puppet
  • Django & Fabric
  • RabbitMQ