Junior DevOps Engineer, Jagex
Project Zanaris
+ Discretionary annual performance bonus.
Video game studio
Job no longer available
Video game studio
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Discretionary annual performance bonus.
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make forever games that connect and inspire players all around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Understanding of key AWS Services
- Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration
- Familiarity with log aggregation and monitoring tools
- Some experience with scripting in bash, python or typescript
What the job involves
- As a Junior DevOps Engineer, you will enable our players to access and engage with our games and experiences through online services, refine and maintain live Jagex infrastructure, internal tools and development of new software and features
- Being a Junior Engineer at Jagex means you will have support and guidance from some of the best in the industry, providing you with the skills and expertise you will need to take your career to the next level
- Build, automate and support development and production environments in the cloud
- Use IAC (terraform, CDK) to build and maintain infrastructure globally at scale
- Leverage AWS best practice to build highly available and fault tolerant systems for our players
- Support modernisation of legacy systems, migrating away from data centres to run on AWS
- Provide operational insights by deploying, documenting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues and work with engineering teams to detect and prevent future issues
- On-Call support to troubleshoot and resolve out-of-hour production issues
- This is an exciting opportunity to help drive the success of Project Zanaris and play a vital part in delivering on our product strategy
- This endeavour will see us once again drive groundbreaking MMO features by allowing players to run and customise their own game worlds, becoming the foundation of players creating their own experiences in the game
Application process
- Please note that due to us approaching the Christmas & New Year break, we have many people among the hiring teams who are on annual leave or will be absent due to the studio closing over the holiday period
- This means that, in most cases, applications made during December are unlikely to proceed to interview until January 2025. We appreciate your patience during this time
Our take
Founded in 2000, Jagex is the video game studio behind the RuneScape titles. It is one of the largest British video game studios, having ammased 2.4 million active subscribers, one million free-to-play users, and over 300 million lifetime RuneScape accounts.
Jagex specialises in "forever games", in which players can continue to discover new experiences and challenges without ever reaching an end. RuneScape is a perfect example of this approach, still receiving updates over twenty years after its initial release.
On top of the RuneScape franchise, the company's acquisition of Gamepires brought titles such as SCUM under the company's banner, which it is also working to make into a forever game. It also acquired Pipeworks - adding a Games-as-a-Service platform to its broadening portfolio.
In 2024, it was announced that Jagex would be bought by CVC Capital Partners and Haveli Investments. This represents a move that will position it well to pursue creating more new and innovative player experiences in the future.
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Company
Company benefits
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
- £75 Monthly Energy Allowance (paid on top of your salary)
- Generous Pension Contributions
- Free Gym Membership
- Employee Assistance Programme & Onsite Counselling
- Life Insurance X4 your Salary
- Income Protection 75% Salary
- Annual performance bonus & Pay Reviews
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity - from day 1
- 25 days annual leave +Bank holidays (Increasing by 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
- Flexible Working Hours
- Flash Bonuses
Company HQ
Milton, UK
Leadership
Phil Mansell
(CEO)Has worked at Jagex since 2011, beginning as Lead Designer then transitioning through roles to become VP of Studios then CEO. Also former Board Member for Ukie and Lead Designer at Climax and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
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