Site Reliability Engineer | North America | Canada | Europe | Fully Remote

Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Escape Velocity, you will be a game maker, enabling the teams to create new ways to enhance experiences in interactive entertainment.

In Short

• Analyze, implement, and improve complex systems responsible for delivering our game to millions of fans
• Own the delivery, scalability, and reliability of the cloud hosted game title
• Partner with game team to advise on and implement best practices as we turn ideas into great player experiences
• Take ownership of projects, seeing them through to completion in a timely manner while maintaining exacting standards for the quality of execution
• Engage with product teams to diagnose and resolve operational concerns
• Form and maintain relationships with internal and external partners to best support our peers and customers
• Consistently aim to optimize reliability, availability, observability, and cost
• Participate in on-call rotation that assists with business-critical incidents impacting our partners

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, Devops, or Platform engineering role
• 5+ years of experience with observability, application monitoring and alerting, telemetry collection and data visualization using common tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
• Experience with GitOps workflows and Helix Core / Perforce versioning system
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD systems - Buildkite, Github or Gitlab runners
• Expertise in IaC design using combination of Ansible, Terraform and Cloudformation
• Experience with backend game engines such as Pragma, GameLift, Agones or others
• Experience with capacity planning and FinOps
• Proficient in one or more high-level languages (Ie: Python, Kotlin, JavaScript, C++)
• Strong Linux Skills
• Understanding of public cloud services, their use cases, automation, best practices and cost optimization
• Ability to analyze desired project outcomes and derive requirements that will take an idea from concept to completion

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment
• Excellent benefits
• Culture of play and constant improvement
• Autonomy in work
• Commitment to equal opportunity employment