DevOps Engineer (all genders) in Hamburg

DevOps Engineer (all genders)

Location: Hamburg
Level: Experienced Professionals
Department: Live Games

Goodgame Studios is a leading free-to-play, online games development company. We operate across web and mobile platforms and cater to over 300 million registered users worldwide. With a rich talent pool of employees from more than 40 nations, we are among the largest German employers in the gaming software industry. Our aim is clear: We want to entertain millions of players around the world with our games, therefore we joined the Stillfront Group AB in 2018. Stillfront Group AB is a group of independent creators , publishers and distributors of digital games - with a vision to become the leading group of indie game creators and publishers.

About Yourself

• You have a decent software development background and can code beyond simple automation bash scripts
• You have years of experience mastering Linux in real, end-user facing production environments with actual load and uptime requirements
• By “experience” we mean built it from the ground up, at least partially (provisioning and configuration) and actively running it (patching, updates, maintenance, monitoring and alerting)
• You know your way well around a linux terminal, shell(s) and a wide variety of command-line tools
• You provision an entire functioning system from start to finish and know how to hot-patch stuff, format a file system, debug network/io issues
• You have expert knowledge about containers, orchestration and the "cloud”.
• You value hands-on experience in a real production environment more than just being “AWS certified”

Joining the Live Games Team

• We’re focused on one mission: to make our successful MMO games technologically fit for 2020 and beyond. (Imagine re-building an A320 while in the air)
• Our teams pull off unbelievable, insane and ballsy things, like writing our own transpiler to migrate hundreds of thousands of lines of code from Flash to TypeScript - and then rolling that out to millions of players, successfully. No-one has done this before us, definitely not at this scale.
• We confront legacy code from developers who have long moved on and left their bugs behind; we refactor, re-write, throw away, find new ways and sometimes just keep things as they are and never touch them again, because that may well be the best and most pragmatic solution.
• We’ve moved almost all of our critical infrastructure to AWS; we run Lambda functions written in node.js  in production, while also feeding our huge Java monolith that just kept growing over the years.
• We integrate React apps into our legacy Flash games; we mix and match and build for the future, while respecting our past.
• Clearly this isn’t for everyone. It’s for the daring, the creative, the out-of-the-box-thinkers, the experienced, the multi-linguists, the hungry, the curious, the foolish, the getting-sh*-done-ers.
• If you think you’re one of them, you may have found your new home. Come join us.

Technology we use

• Java 8 and popular libraries, e.g. Spring 4 (mostly core and IoC Container), Netty, Guava, Apache Commons, protobuf
• Testing: jUnit, Mockito
• DB: MySQL, AWS Aurora
• Build & Deployment: Maven, Jenkins
• Frontend: HTML5, TypeScript, CreateJS, Webpack
• Logging, Monitoring & Alerting: EFK stack (ElasticSearch + Fluentd + Kibana), Graphite+Grafana stack, AWS Cloudwatch
• Infrastructure: AWS EC2, Route53, RDS
• Process: Gitlab, Jira, Confluence

We offer

• A professional team of experts that has fun at work
• Your professional growth is important to us. We provide agile structures, flat hierarchies, and ongoing training opportunities
• Results-oriented teamwork that values employee contribution and empowerment
• Competitive compensation and a balanced work-life balance