Senior DevOps Engineer - Lemur

About Ringtail Lemur

Do you want to take part in helping game developers share their creative ideas, dreams and visions with millions of players at the same time? We’re searching for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team doing exactly that!

Ringtail Lemur is building a serverless-for-gaming platform, to level the playing field between AAA studios and indie game developers in online gaming.

If you’re excited about using the latest tech to disrupt a demanding industry, we want to hear from you!

About the role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team, where you will design and build the infrastructure of our game server technology.

Gaming is a technically demanding industry. Expectations are high, and performance is critical. We tackle these requirements pragmatically and won’t shy away from custom solutions if it helps achieve our goals.

We are a hybrid workplace, where you are expected to come to the office once every two weeks at a minimum. You will join a team that supports each other and has a common goal of creating cutting edge technology.

Your day-to-day as a Senior DevOps Engineer 

• Build and improve our Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure.
• Identify risks, flaws and propose how we may improve.
• Apply standardized tech to non-standard use cases, to meet our high expectations.
• Manage our IaC setup in Terraform.
• Refine our observability and alerting setup as we grow.
• Tackle complex technical challenges, as a team.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines for our upcoming game platform.
• Build scripts to automate pipelines and processes.
• Work closely with our server and game teams.
  

Requirements 

• 5+ years of experience with Azure (or equivalent) cloud environments.
• 5+ years of experience with DevOps tools and release engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with web services, databases and their relating architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, e.g. Terraform / Crossplane.
• Strong networking fundamentals, e.g. load balancing, CDNs, WAF, DNS & vnets/subnets.
  

Good to have

• Experience with building and maintaining large Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with multi-regionality including geo-replication, failover etc.
• Experience with modern observability using OpenTelemetry and/or Prometheus.
• Familiarity with the CNCF ecosystem of open-source projects.
• Familiarity with GitOps using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Interest in (multiplayer) games.
  

Personal traits

• Ability to take ownership of responsibilities
• Good interpersonal and team-work skills
• Open to feedback
• Collaborative and consensus-driven approach
  

Our tech stack:

• Docker / Kubernetes / Helm / ArgoCD / Terraform
• Azure / Azure DevOps
• OpenTelemetry / Prometheus / Grafana
• PostgreSQL
• .NET
  

About Ringtail Interactive

Ringtail Interactive is at the forefront of redefining what’s possible in game development, supported by a small yet rapidly expanding team. Our diverse departments are hard at work on various projects, ranging from a high-quality game platform designed for creators of all backgrounds to our groundbreaking Anything-to Anything technology – and that’s just the beginning.

Our team comprises a global community of seasoned professionals, all united by a shared passion for gaming. As we continue to strengthen our core team, we’re poised to take significant steps in shaping the future of our projects. Every member of our team can make a tangible impact on the products we share with the world, fostering a culture where innovation and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.