Posted 10 months ago
Senior DevOps Engineer
@ Code Wizards Group
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Code Wizards Group is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer on a permanent full-time basis to support live online games and lead game migration work. The role involves root cause analysis, incident response, on-call rotation and team mentoring. It is hybrid with three days per week onsite at the Elgin studio, and the schedule runs Monday to Friday with on-call participation.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and perform root cause analysis on customer infrastructure
- Identify and raise improvements to team efficiency and procedures
- Assist with escalated issues across multiple teams
- Write clean, scalable and performant scripts and code
- Take part in a regular on-call rotation
Requirements summary:
- Experience in the gaming industry on a live service game in production
- Knowledge of backend systems for online games, ideally game engines such as Unity or Unreal
- Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, Grafana and Kubernetes
- Prior experience migrating a live game from one cloud provider to AWS
- Excellent knowledge of containers, virtual machines and Linux server administration
- Demonstrable programming or code-based project experience
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-01-15
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-03
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Code Wizards Group
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- Code Wizards Group
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Headquarters | Theale, England |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
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Code Wizards are one of the world's leaders in Game and Esports Tech. We're in a period of growth and looking to bolster our DevOps capabilities by adding more engineers to our team.
Within the Group lie Multiplayer Wizards, whose responsibility is to help game studios launch and run their games seamlessly.
Multiplayer Wizards are in search of a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team permanently, working on some specific game migration work.
Are you a highly productive Senior DevOps Engineer, looking to use your wealth of games industry knowledge and your technical DevOps skills to help keep games online and running, whatever challenges are thrown at you?
In this role, you will use your skills to help educate others in the team and act as an escalation point for head-scratching problems. Incidents are no problem, and you are happy to pick up and run with an outage, working with internal teams and the customer to keep the game infrastructure online.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
· Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including in incident scenarios
· Proactively identify and raise methods of improving team efficiency and procedures to improve the support to the customer
· Assisting with escalated issues and navigating scenarios across multiple teams
· Writing clean, scalable, and performant scripts & code
· Forming part of a regular on-call rotation supporting our customers and internal teams
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
· Experience working in the gaming industry having worked on a live service game in production.
· Knowledge of backend systems for online games and ideally exposure to game engines, Unity, Unreal etc.
· An excitement to expand your knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure and tools
· Automation knowledge on a wide variety of tools – Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, and Kubernetes, etc.
· Prior experience migrating a live game from one Cloud provider onto AWS
· Excellent knowledge of containers, virtual machines and Linux server administration
· Demonstrable experience in programming or personal code-based projects.
The position offers flexible working hours, with a schedule from Monday to Friday that also includes participation in an on-call rota. It follows a hybrid working model, requiring three days per week onsite at the Elgin studio and two days working remotely.
Initially, we will be looking at people with previous experience within the Video Games Industry.
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