Senior Automation Engineer - DevOps

At Paradox, we are focused on bringing value to our community by creating groundbreaking features for both players and game developers. If you are a passionate developer who would like to work at a successful game company full of people passionate in technology and games, read on and learn how you can be part of the fun and talented DevOps team!
We are now looking for automation engineers to work with the various technologies that are used in Paradox games and surrounding ecosystem. The DevOps team is responsible for Paradox’s cloud environments, as well as a wide set of features and products including the Paradox Account, cross-platform multiplayer technology, social/player features (leaderboards, cloud saves, etc.), the Paradox Plaza store, forums, as well as the game SDK that exposes these features to our games, and many others!
In this role you will make day to day key decisions, and together with the rest of the team you will explore and develop groundbreaking features for both players and game developers. You will be a key member in designing, building, improving and shaping the effort in realizing features which enrich our Paradox ecosystem. This also means that you will be working closely with all of the Paradox game development studios, other DevOps teams, as well as the publishing organization, in order to maximize the consumption of our services to guarantee we continue delivering Paradox signature experiences.


Responsibilities:
CI orchestration, allowing developers to focus purely on business delivery
CD pipelines (e.g. automatically build commits, run tests, deploy to environments)
Service/VM orchestration and management (e.g. logging, monitoring, updates, etc.)
Scaling and distribution of our platforms and services, both internal and player-facing
Balancing environment resiliency and graceful service degradation
Cloud platform management, as well as providing cloud native expertise to DevOps teams

Requirements:
5+ years of professional experience
Bachelor degree or comparable professional experience
Comfortable with a range of programming languages and technologies
Experience with agile development
Proficient with code versioning tools, such as Git or similar frameworks
Documentation skills

What we’d like to see:
Ansible, Terraform (or similar)
Container orchestration (Docker or similar)
Linux (Ubuntu) administration
Build job orchestration (Jenkins or similar CI)
Deployment pipeline automation
Application/service load balancing
SSL & security hardening
Static content caching

Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm
Cloud familiarity (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
AWS Lambda/GCP Cloud Function orchestration familiarity
AWS Dynamo/GCP Cloud Table familiarity
Cross-region load balancing
Service-to-service certificate authorization
Database design/management (SQL/NoSQL)
Cache expiration handling
DDoS mitigation and security related services (AWS Shield, Akamai, Imperva, etc.)
Monitoring experience (Prometheus, DataDog, Grafana, etc.)

We believe you are a service-minded, driven, and explorative individual; you don't have problems with making decisions and handling the responsibilities that comes with it. You are used to solving problems and working independently as well as in a group. Your role in a team is flexible and can include being the one who identifies viable solutions and implements appropriate solutions. Your English communications skills, both verbal and oral, are excellent and are backed by patience in taking the time to understand others.
Practical information:
Scope: Full time and permanent
Reports to: Cloud Operations Manager
Location: Stockholm




If you think that this description matches you, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will interview candidates continuously. If you don't match all the requirements, please demonstrate how your passion, attitude and interest in Paradox might compensate for this.


At Paradox Interactive we celebrate difference and care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We therefore encourage you, no matter who you are, to apply for this job if you think you’d be a great addition to our team.