Senior Cloud Engineer

Are you a Senior Engineer working in a DevOps role? Does working in a games company that delivers one of the world's leading MMOs sound appealing?

Jagex's Enablement Platform Team is responsible for always keeping our games accessible and enjoyable for both end customers and game developers alike. Development of our players’ accounts, purchases, subscriptions, metagame and other key components are how we keep the wheels at Jagex turning!

Why not take this exciting opportunity to be working on mature, scalable systems, alongside a team of experienced and passionate Engineers in a company with a strong, supportive culture.

Key Technology Stack:

• AWS
• Postgres / Redis / ElasticSearch
• Java Spring Boot application microservices
• Kafka
• GitHub / BitBucket
• Kubernetes
• Terraform / Helm

What you'll be doing:

• Building, automating and supporting development and production environments both on-premises and in the cloud
• Defining what good looks like, and ensuring we get there as part of migrating from our on-premise infrastructure into the cloud
• Providing operational insights by deploying and maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting solutions
• Building and maintaining highly available services, reusable infrastructure as code modules, and robust continuous delivery pipelines
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues and working with engineering teams to detect and prevent future issues
• Utilizing your existing experience of continuous integration and deployment to shorten feedback cycles
• Providing on-call support for our platform alongside other engineers
• Leading the upskilling of other engineers by coaching and mentoring them in DevOps best practices
• Refining the department’s architecture and other tech principles

What you'll need:

• Strong experience of large scale enterprise deployments with high numbers of services
• Strong experience of migrating from on-premises to cloud based infrastructure
• Strong skills in cloud deployment best practices, tools and processes using AWS
• Strong cloud architecture experience, able to structure both infrastructure and applications for optimum performance
• Expert level coding, scripting and testing capabilities
• Experience creating and working with CI / CD pipelines
• Experience in cloud based persistence (including relational and non-relational database) configuration and optimisation
• Experience in implementation of security best practices

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.