GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer, King
Shared Technology
1-4 days a week in office
Mobile games developer
Job no longer available
Mobile games developer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1-4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games.
Role
Who you are
- Expert GCP knowledge including Organization- level Governance experience
- SRE/DevOps/Platform engineering experience
- Experience with some of the following: Cloud FinOps, distributed compute environments, serverless compute, application development, big data analytics, containerization, hosted services and multi- tenant cloud infrastructures
- Programming experience preferably with Python and/or Go
- Experience working with declarative tools for defining cloud resources and applications, such as Terraform and Helm
- Good knowledge of SQL, preferably with BigQuery experience
Desirable
- Experienced knowledge of Google Cloud Platform
- Knowledge of other public cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure
- Experience rolling out changes to public cloud governance - e.g. GCP/AWS org policies
- Experience building modern, secure and scalable cloud native environments within Google Cloud Platform (we use a mix of GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run)
- Experience working with public cloud billing data
- Experience deploying and working with secret management solutions like HashiCorp Vault
- Working knowledge of containers and orchestration technologies and knowledge of various architectural patterns preferably Google Kubernetes Engine
- Experience of CI/CD like ArgoCD, Drone CI and/or Cloud Build
- Knowledge of logging, monitoring and alerting systems and frameworks
- Knowledge of BI/reporting tools
- Experience dealing with complex and hybrid environments with multiple dependencies
- Strong Linux and computer networking expertise
What the job involves
- Define, codify and templatize public cloud platform- level and resource management configuration and frameworks - including organizational policy, account/project structure, IAM, logging and security policy
- Create, maintain and improve public cloud governance and security tooling and various internal systems for providing secure- by- default, self- service access to the cloud
- Deliver tooling for Cloud FinOps at King that provides engineering teams with granular cost data for their services, expressed in both $ and CO2, that helps drive a culture of cost awareness and accountability where optimization and sustainability are key outcomes
- Maintain and support multi- tenant GKE infrastructure for internal customers at King
- Help build out internal best practices around public cloud usage and enablement, with a focus on defining everything as code
- Partnering closely with our game backend teams, work with other engineering teams across Shared Technology group, Game teams and the wider Kingdom on ensuring their smooth migration to cloud
Our take
Gaming is one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, but many still view gaming as inconvenient, inaccessible, or niche. King solves that problem by designing mobile games with broad market appeal.
Since its launch, King has released more than 200 titles in 14 languages, including Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue, and more. The company pioneered in-game spending, which allows it to monetize user interactions without charging them to buy the game. Titles such as Candy Crush are designed to be highly accessible to demographics that wouldn’t usually define themselves as “gamers”, including older users. King now boasts more than 200 million monthly active users, making it a clear market leader.
In 2016, King was bought by gaming giant Activision Blizzard, which has since been purchased by Microsoft. While the company still operates with a high degree of independence, it has greatly profited from the financial and marketing support of its parent corporation. This support has been instrumental in enabling King to maintain its competitiveness in the constantly evolving mobile gaming industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2005
$43m
SERIES A
Jun 2005
$41m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $84m
Company benefits
- 🏥 Private medical, dental, critical illness and pension plans
- 🌴 Generous paid holidays, with additional time off close down between 25th December and the New Year
- 🥯 Next-level offices that provide numerous creative spaces as well as free breakfast, snacks, and drinks
- 🎒 Exclusive, free goodies
- 🏳️🌈 Four employee-led diversity-focused networks and other community groups that raise awareness
- ❤️ Reimbursements for both physical and mental health-related activities. Some offices also have their own onsite gyms.
- 🏅 Community Day, charity donation matching, free and discounted Activision Blizzard games, and our Royal Recognition Awards rewarding commitment of long-serving Kingsters
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Tjodolf Sommestad
(President )President from February 2022. Previously served as King’s Chief Development Officer.
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