Network SRE Cloud Platform

At King, millions of players connect every day to play our games. Our mission to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more meaningful than it is today. Do you want to sneak a peek behind the scenes of Candy Crush?
We operate a hybrid infrastructure, both on-premise and cloud hosting, that handles more than 100 billion of events flows through our streaming infrastructure and platform every day.
We are looking for someone eager to engineer resilient solutions at scale to strengthen the heart of this ecosystem. As a part of our networking team, you will be responsible for our data center network-fabric, edge routers, and load balancers.
We believe you are a team player with a great inclusive culture and a solutions oriented person with a passion for solving problems programmatically through iterative and continuous improvement.
Due to vacation times, we will take a small break in reviewing Resumes. We will resume to evaluate applications in the beginning of July.
Your role within our Kingdom
The Infrastructure Engineering team operates the production data centre which includes hardware, networks, systems, and services constituting the backend of the King games. Our vision is to engineer and provide the most effective games infrastructure in the world and our job is to build effective, stable and reliable large scale infrastructure tools and services for our platform, games, and product teams. Resilience and uptime is at the core of everything we do. We strive to empower developers to be autonomous and flexible. We continuously work to create self service models for our tech in close collaboration with development teams.
We are continuously improving the automation for our production stack, adopting new hybrid solutions and modernizing our platform. And we achieve this by enabling one another, teamwork and most important, by having fun!
We care deeply about our culture and believe in:
- An inclusive and diverse workplace
- Collaborative and blame-free environment
- Continuous improvement of everything we do
- Automation and coding as much as possible
- Asking for help and sharing ideas openly
Skills to create thrills
- Strong Python coding skills and knowledge of other scripting language Bash/Shell
- Comfortable working in a Linux computing environment
- Knowledge of networking layers 1-7 (extra credits for BGP routing)
- Experience with configuration management and orchestration of distributed systems (extra credits for SaltStack)
- Passionate about open-source and open to new technologies
- You have excellent people skills and can communicate proficiently in written and spoken English