Senior DevOps Engineer, TCGplayer
Online marketplace for collectible card games
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for collectible card games
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To establish TCGplayer as the most admired company in the hobby collectibles universe
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years administering multi-tiered, consumer-facing web applications
- 3+ years in cloud engineering and administration with a focus on high availability, release management, production operations and automation
- Proven experience in the Microsoft web stack (ASP.NET, IIS, Windows Server, SQL Server)
- Experience with at least one cloud provider, with a strong preference for AWS
- Advanced knowledge of configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- Expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Travis, Circle, Bamboo, Octopus Deploy, etc.)
- Scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)
- Monitoring/Logging tools (New Relic, Datadog, ELK Stack, Splunk, Loggly, Scalyr, etc.)
- Operational knowledge of infrastructure (Redis, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, AWS, Load Balancing, etc)
What the job involves
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with engineering and architecture to increase stability and reliability
- You will be responsible for 24/7 operations of our platform, and creating and maintaining efficient pipelines
- Ultimately you will execute and automate operational processes quickly, accurately and securely
- Your responsibilities will include deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet TCGplayer needs
- Design a cloud native infrastructure environment in AWS from local development all the way to a live production environment with a focus on real-world DevOps best practices
- Mentor your peers on how to maintain a high level of quality in the creation and support of application deployment pipelines that are automated, reliable and can scale with a growing technology department
- Take responsibility for production incidents, mitigating and resolving the underlying issue, and conducting postmortems to prevent the same issue from occurring againCreate knowledge base articles and mentor your peers on how to catch and troubleshoot these issues in
- The future
- Configure system and application monitoring, defining alerts and building reporting dashboards
- Apply a deep understanding of cloud engineering and DevOps best practices to advise our Engineering teams on capacity planning, analysis, design, implementation and testing of the platform
- Create new standards & practices to increase uptime and decrease troubleshooting time
- Participate in on-call/on-demand network and server support
- Collaborate with multiple organizations leading discussions and working groups on reduction of on-call incidents
Our take
TCGplayer has established itself as the leading US marketplace for collectible card games like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! The company has found success through focusing on emphasising the entire customer experience of passionate enthusiasts through multiple community-focused products such as ‘Direct’, a local-store purchasing platform.
Technology has allowed the company to scale at such low-cost that it can facilitate the authentication of more than 100,000 products every day, dramatically improving the experience of enthusiasts used to dealing with scammers. The company has now expanded to serve the wider collectibles market, and in 2022 was acquired by eBay for $295 Million - though it continues to operate its trading-card marketplace autonomously.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2021
$35m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2018
$10m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Life Insurance
- Family Leave Program
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Free coaching, counseling and mental health services
- Stock Options for all employees
- Merch
- After-work Activities
- Constant Learning - Monthly classrooms provide a deeper understanding of company operations, while educational resources help every team member evolve personally and professionally
- Game nights complete with card games, board games and video games. (Plus, we have our own Pauper Magic & Pokémon leagues)
- A casual dress code
- Open office with coworking stations for collaboration and quiet rooms for solitude - treadmill desks and yoga balls help you stay active, while a company library, book club and writing group keep your mind inspired
- Laptop
- Hackathons
- Real-time peer-to-peer feedback tools
- Parking Stipend
- Fitness Equipment
Company HQ
Downtown, Syracuse, NY
Leadership
Robert Bigler
(CEO)Previosuly General Manager at eBay, Senior Vice President at Holt Renfrew, was a Digital Transformation Director at Selfridges Group and Vice President of Strategy and worked in Corporate Development at Sears Canada.
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