Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Salary 40,000 - 70,000 GBP per year

Requirements:

- If you have most of the following, then we definitely want to hear from you:
A can do, let's get it done attitude
5+ years industry programming experience - a significant portion of this will be delivering solutions into the cloud (PaaS/IaaS)
Expertise in developing for operational and non functional concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience, security considerations)
Demonstrable experience in web microarchitecture and key technologies (Restful API's/JSON, distributed design)
Professional level JavaScript/ Node.js
Professional level Go
Expert level experience supporting and delivering solutions into a major cloud provider (prefer Azure)
Expert level experience with CICD systems (ideally including Jenkins)
Strong experience with systems management solutions and their orchestration - eg. Puppet, Chef & Terraform
Good database skills including SQL and NOSQL
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Strong knowledge of Git source control
Linux/bash command line

Responsibilities:

- As a senior engineer you will be responsible for ensuring that our cloud infrastructure provides a first class, highly secure service. You will provide technical leadership across architecture, design, implementation, and support. You will be highly proficient in developing against cloud platforms, building micro services, and delivering automation solutions. You will also be required to provide operational support as required, and support the team on-call rota.

Ensuring that our infrastructure is well maintained and highly secure
Ensuring our development team are highly productive
Development of our backend services and API's
Providing updates, enhancements and new features to our backend services platform
Support for deployed services and infrastructure
Evangelise best practices through effective consultation with your peers
Work with 3rd party vendors and continually review the latest technologies to help us stay ahead of the game
Engage with the wider teams to automate and improve our tools and processes
Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation

Technologies:

- API
- PaaS
- IaaS
- JSON
- JavaScript
- NodeJS
- Jenkins
- Azure
- Cloud
- CI/CD
- Puppet
- Terraform
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Linux
- Git
- Java
- Python
- React

More:

Antstream Arcade is the world's largest cloud retro gaming service. We deliver thousands of the worlds best games into the hands of hundreds of thousands of gamers every second of every day. We do this because we have a passion for classic games and for bleeding edge technology.

We truly believe that by combining gaming's past with gaming's future, we can build the platform and technology for the games industries next 50 years.

We believe in a stress free working environment, one that encourages collaboration. For us a great idea can come from anywhere and anyone. We like to be inspired by each other, and by our dedicated community of gamers that span the globe.

We love retro games that entertain us, and creating new challenges for them that breathes new life into these old classics. We love to challenge the impossible and define the future. We like to have fun, to drink, eat, and play games.

At Antstream we work hard to ensure you have a life outside of the fun in the office. What does that mean? Well to start with your office can be in the comfort of your own home. Whilst Antstream has a stunning office space right in the heart of London, we know that sometimes you need your own space to create. And when you need to collaborate face to face we have a great office space to do just this. We also have a development process that smartly works with you and your abilities, and ensures you remain as energised as you did when you first walked into the Antstream office.

Share options are granted following successful completion of your probationary period.