Senior DevOps Engineer, King
Activision Blizzard Media
$92.9-171.8k
1-4 days a week in office
Mobile games developer
Posted today
Mobile games developer
1001+ employees
Posted today
$92.9-171.8k
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
- Experience with Cloud Providers, primarily GCP
- Proficient in containerization (Docker) technology, Kubernetes, and other orchestration technologies
- Proficient in Linux operating systems with strong command line interface (CLI) skills
- Proficient in the building and configuration of Terraform modules
- Understanding and experience building Helm charts or Kustomize modules
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring philosophies along with tooling knowledge of Datadog, PagerDuty, Graylog, etc
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and the tools used to provide this (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Drone, GitHub Actions, etc)
- Strong understanding of networking and networking topologies
- Understanding the philosophy of GitOps
Desirable
- Familiarity with Groovy and Gradle
- Familiarity with Atlantis and Terragrunt
- Understanding of OWASP top 10 and SDL
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for our Ads Engineering team, empowering ground-breaking mobile advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Ads Platform
- The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide technical prowess and work to improve engineering efficiency by automating releases and deployments, building pipelines, infrastructure, automating workflows, and continually measuring application performance
- The engineer will be responsible for implementing tools to eliminate manual operations and develop automated, repeatable processes
- The engineer will be responsible for improving the developer experience, team throughput, and speed of development
- The engineer must effectively collaborate with engineering stakeholders and serve as a liaison between engineering teams
- Building and maintaining Terraform modules for dogfooding and consumption by the engineering teams
- Configuring, provisioning, and maintaining resources and infrastructure in the cloud
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to provide a feedback loop to the engineering teams
- Building and maintaining helm charts and kustomize modules for applications and services
- Leading with DevOps best practices and tooling within the DevOps team and providing these best practices to the adjacent engineering teams
- Operate on an on-call rotation and be available in case issues arise from the DevOps perspective
- Continually self-educate on the latest updates to Cloud Services, Infrastructure, Security, and best practices with regard to Software Engineering
- Build and sustain observability dashboards and metrics, alerting for platform infrastructure and supporting observability and incident management across the engineering organization
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.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"There is an amazing worklife balance that the company puts an emphasis on. On top of that there are amazing benefits to take part in, for example in..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2005
$43m
SERIES A
Jun 2005
$41m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $84m
Company benefits
- ❤️ Reimbursements for both physical and mental health-related activities
- 📚 Dedicated learning & development resources including LEAP and other leadership coaching
- 🌴 Generous paid holidays and vacation time, paid sick time, and compassionate, bereavement and parental leaves
- ⌚ A Team First, Hybrid Working approach allows working patterns to be based on the needs of the team
- 🏥 401(k) Plan with company match, medical, dental, and vision coverage options, and more
- 🏳️🌈 Four employee-led diversity-focused networks and other community groups that raise awareness
- 🏅 Community Day, charity donation matching, free and discounted Activision Blizzard games, and our Royal Recognition Awards rewarding commitment of long-serving Kingsters
- 📚 Voluntary benefits including tuition reimbursement, group discounts for legal services, ID protection, home and rental insurance, and others
Company values
- Fun & Friendly 🧡 We create an inclusive environment where everyone can belong. We build trust, we're supportive and demanding in everything we do, and we're not afraid to have fun along the way
- Care & Craft 🤗 We put our heart and soul into everything we do - and we do it for our players. It takes all Kingsters, contributing in different ways, to craft and operate brilliant mass-appeal games
- Humble & Open 📖 We treat each other as equals. We seek and give feedback, we listen, we learn, and we're honest with ourselves and others
- Fast & Fluid ⏩ We are responsive and embrace change. We take smart risks, are always ready to dust ourselves off, learn fast, and try again
- Creative Champions 🏅 We are curious about our players and we drive innovation in big and small ways to delight them every day. We boldly seek new ways of thinking to unleash creativity
- Passion & Performance 📈 Our passion guides us to set ambitious goals for ourselves and each other. We hold each other accountable, see things through, and contribute to our sustainable growth
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Tjodolf Sommestad
(President )President from February 2022. Previously served as King’s Chief Development Officer.
People progressing
Leading a data science team responsible for supporting performance marketing to make informed decisions with data
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at King
Vikki Leach (Senior Director, DE&I)
- A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. At King, we share a passion for making the world playful. To achieve this, it takes people with different skills, experiences, and world views to work together.
- There’s no such thing as a typical gamer. That’s why we embrace and celebrate what makes us different rather than what makes us the same
- Our Employee Networks help us to stay connected as individuals and as a company; Kaleidoscope (ethnic, cultural, and national diversity), Royal Unicorns (LGBTQIA+), Women@King (crushing bias and equal opportunities) and CAN (collective abilities).
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