DevOps Engineer, Big Viking Games

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or a similar role
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Experience designing, maintaining, and improving production infrastructure — including comfort with legacy systems that predate modern cloud-native patterns
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Pulumi, or similar
• Experience with containerized applications, especially Docker
• Experience with CI/CD tools, version control, deployment automation, and modern release workflows
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, cloud security, monitoring, logging, and operational troubleshooting
• Experience supporting production systems where uptime, reliability, and performance matter — especially systems that cannot tolerate extended downtime
• Experience with relational databases (MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres) and comfort working adjacent to data pipelines and ETL processes
• Security-aware mindset with practical experience in secrets management, credential rotation, access control, vulnerability reduction, and least-privilege practices
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate complex infrastructure or production issues, including silent failures and data pipeline outages
• Ability to work closely with software engineers to improve build, deploy, and operational workflows
• Comfort creating documentation, runbooks, and repeatable operating processes
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Practical ownership mindset with the ability to prioritize, execute, and close loops
• The ideal candidate is a practical infrastructure engineer who can keep live systems stable while helping modernize how the company builds, deploys, secures, and operates technology
• They are not only focused on tools. They understand uptime, developer experience, production risk, cloud costs, security, release quality, and operational discipline. They recognize that modernizing a decade-old live game requires patience, pragmatism, and the ability to improve systems incrementally without disrupting what's working
• They are comfortable operating across a mix of legacy and modern infrastructure, managing credentials and secrets lifecycle across multiple hosting platforms, and ensuring data pipelines are healthy and alerting properly. They can work independently, collaborate with engineers, and create systems that reduce friction instead of adding process for its own sake
• This role is best suited for someone who wants meaningful ownership over production infrastructure, cloud health, automation, and DevOps modernization inside a live-service gaming company

Desirable

• Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to help design, maintain, secure, and modernize the infrastructure that supports our live-service games and internal development workflows
• This is a hands-on role for someone who understands cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, uptime, and production reliability — and who is comfortable working with legacy production systems alongside modern infrastructure patterns
• Our games have been running for over a decade; the infrastructure reflects that history, and the right person sees that as an interesting challenge rather than a dealbreaker
• You will work closely with engineering, product, QA, data, and live operations teams to improve how we build, deploy, monitor, and operate our systems
• The right person is practical, security-aware, automation-minded, and able to balance speed with reliability
• They can own infrastructure in a live production environment, improve DevOps processes, reduce manual work, and help development teams ship safely and efficiently
• Live-service games require operational awareness outside regular business hours, including periodic on-call and incident response availability
• Monitor, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure across AWS, Netlify, Vercel, and related platforms that support our live games, data systems, internal tools, and AI-powered operational workflows
• Drive infrastructure modernization while maintaining uptime for live games with active player communities — every improvement ships while the plane is flying
• Build, maintain, and improve automation for deployments, environment management, provisioning, secrets rotation, and operational workflows — reducing manual toil and human error
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar technologies
• Maintain and monitor data pipelines between game source databases (MariaDB), the Snowflake data warehouse, and downstream analytics and reporting systems — ensuring pipeline health, freshness, and alerting when data stops flowing
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, and deployment reliability so development teams can ship safely and frequently
• Own secrets and credential lifecycle management across platforms — including API key rotation, access controls, environment variable governance, and least-privilege practices
• Support and improve the infrastructure that powers AI and automation tooling, including API integrations, MCP servers, serverless functions, webhook reliability, and orchestration platforms
• Improve observability across the stack: logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and operational visibility — with particular attention to early detection of silent failures in data pipelines and production systems
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and post-incident improvements
• Help manage cloud spend, infrastructure usage, resource tagging, and environment efficiency
• Create clear documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and repeatable processes for infrastructure and DevOps workflows