SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER

Craft.
Technology & Development Job Description.
At King, the Engineering System & Support (ESS) team provides critical capabilities for our developers, including continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), build infrastructure, and dependent services.
Our team manages repository solutions for code, binaries, and libraries, build pipelines, and code quality/review tools.
These components are integrated into a cohesive stack that includes configuration management, tool integrations, and infrastructure technologies.
We are now seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Systems Engineer to join our team and help us build on this success! We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about the role.
Not sure you meet all other qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
Your Role Within Our Kingdom As a Sr.
Systems Engineer on the ESS team, you will be involved in large-scale system design and troubleshooting, your focus will be to provide a high quality Developer Experience by implementing and improving ESS services and products.
Our main goal as a team is to contribute to speed up the Game Development Lifecycle.
Skills To Create Thrills Skills to create thrills We are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer with expertise in managing Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) operating systems, which is required, while experience with Windows OS and Mac OSX is desired.
In the realm of configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), you should have required experience with Puppet (r10K, Hiera, Modules, PuppetDB) and Terraform.
Packer and Helm experience is also desirable.
You must have required experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with Docker and Kubernetes.
For development services, proficiency in Git is required, and familiarity with the GitHub ecosystem, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube, Perforce, Incredibuild, and Veertu Anka Build is desirable.
Your scripting skills should include Bash as a requirement, with Python, Groovy (for automation), and PowerShell as desired skills.
Experience managing web servers or applications using Apache or Nginx is desirable.
Familiarity with relational databases and tools for monitoring, alerting, and logging such as Splunk, Prometheus (Alertmanager, Loki, Thanos), and Grafana is also desired.
General security awareness is a must.
We value soft skills such as effective teamwork across different locations, a supportive attitude for developer teams, the ability to structure and prioritize tasks, problem-solving skills, dedication and a keen interest in learning, knowledge sharing and collaboration, and strong documentation abilities.
Tasty bonus skills include experience working with heavy CI/CD pipelines in a multi-OS environment, implementing CI/CD using Kubernetes, and working with Agile methodologies.
About King At King, we're Making the World Playful.
Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it.
With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users.
But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games.
As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self.
We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together.
It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.
Making the World Playful Making the World Playful is our mission - it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games.
Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun? Kingsters are seriously playful.
creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily.
But our players aren't the only ones that can level-up.
We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.
So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.
Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.
ing.
om