DevOps Engineer with meticulous hands-on skills?

Our business is open 24/7 365 on a platform that needs to perform millions of real money micro transactions continuously and at the same time evolve. Our platform consists of the perfect mix of applications and tools where some are battle proven for decades, and some are fresh from the communities. With your meticulous hands-on skills you will be involved in improving applications and tools for the platform and games in a DevOps manner.
About the position
As a DevOps Engineer at ELK Studios, you´ll be a part of a creative and high quality focused team of six people. In our team, we have a joint responsibility for monitoring and detecting errors and ensuring that they are fixed.
Our responsibility covers everything from preventing incidents in production to making sure that other environments such as dev, test and stage are up to date and available for our internal as external users. We take pride in serving our customers and having fun while doing it. We are functioning as a unit and helping each other to reach our best.
You will be responsible for:
Ensure production system deliver business value
Developing the applications and tools needed to operate ELK products
Getting the most out of our private and public cloud implementations
Technical api support towards customers
Hands-on implementing new features in the platform



Who you are!
We believe that mindset is crucial.
With a big portion of curiosity and patience we believe that we can solve and explore root causes for building proactive ways of working.
With a strong mindset you can achieve almost anything. We are looking for a colleague with a strong and positive “can do”- and pragmatic attitude. You have a drive to understand why and love to share knowledge. You put a great pride and feel an ownership in your work, and always strive to be accurate and meticulous.
We believe that you have:
> 3 years experience in a similar position
Experience of programming in at least one language (Golang / PHP or similar will be an advantage)
Experience from maintaining high availability transaction intensive system
Experience of configuration tools (Ansible / Puppet or similar)
Network understanding (including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP(S))
Incident and Problem management skills
Knowledge and experience with Unix/Linux operating systems
Experience from running platforms in cloud environment

We find it meritorious if you have:
Full stack understanding
Jenkins knowledge and experience

We offer
To be part of a creative and high-quality focused company. You´ll find that there will always be new ways of pushing your limits, at ELK you will constantly improve your skills. The position is developing and educational and you can really have an impact on our future ways of working. The role is very wide with different types of tasks, making each day unique. You will get an open-minded and dedicated, team-working atmosphere in our brand new office in Stockholm City. We offer salaries and benefits in line with market conditions.
If this sounds like you, please apply to careers@elk-studios.com with the subject “DevOps Engineer”. Please include your CV and a cover letter describing why you are the perfect candidate. We work with ongoing selection, so do not hesitate to submit your application!
About ELK Studios
"With a passion for games"
Since 2013, ELK Studios has passionately pushed boundaries in the online casino industry. From groundbreaking mathematics to astonishing artwork, ELK takes pride in developing entertaining mobile-first content that maximizes the experience for players around the world.
We strongly advise all recruitment companies to, please, not reach out to us asking to help us fill this role or any other.