The Cloud Engineer will be a member of Zynga s Infrastructure vertical, in a team responsible for maintaining Zynga s Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS products used across Zynga Studios.
We specialize in propagating standard methodologies across all backend engineering teams.
Our team collaborates closely with every major mobile studio at Zynga!
Main Responsibilities
We prototype and test new in-house & vendor-supplied tools, managed-services, deployment and application frameworks. Consult on their relative feature sets, performance and applicability to various product teams.
Cloud Engineering members build, document, maintain, and support tools that can be used across the company for infrastructure-related tasks and tech modernization.
We partner with other business units to convert manual business workflows and requirements into application code.
Our team works with studio partners to upgrade their code for updated OS and application stacks.
The entire team participates in crafting playbooks and helping other studios during on-call.
We administer roles, policies and network resources in a multi-account/cloud environment. Tier one support for related change requests.
We assist other teams in vetting application development standard methodologies and security guidelines.
Desired Skills and Experience
We are looking for fresh perspectives and eager candidates to grow within our team. A B.Sc/C.Sc, 1-2 years in a professional Developer / Operations / Administration role or equivalent experience would be an excellent fit.
Experience working on Linux VMs and Containers hosted in Cloud providers is a plus!
Have experience coding infrastructure orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, Terraform, and Cloudformation We love that.
Desired experience automating processes via command line tools like AWS CLI to replace GUI operations.
Desired experience working in small teams / startup environments.
Candidates practiced in software development processes are highly valued.
Must have experience working within a commercial cloud environment such as AWS or relevant Cloud Certifications.
Must have practical experience with Enterprise Linux environments, development, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, debugging, and orchestration patterns.
Must have strong English written and verbal skills. You are encouraged to engage with customers over video conferencing, ticketing systems, and chat.
You thrive writing clear procedural instructions (Runbooks), conceptual overviews (Architecture), and implementation guides.
You provide phenomenal customer service and can communicate appropriately with different roles in a company (team members, vs customer engineers and customer producers, etc.).
What we offer you:
Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
Create next-gen games that will be played and loved by millions of players around the world
Work in a collaborative team that invests in your development and growth on-the-job
Competitive salary, bonus plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
20 days annual leave + company holidays
Extended medical coverage that includes OPD, dental, vision and telehealth
Group Life, Disability and Critical Illness insurance
Equitable Childcare facilities for all employees
Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
Family planning and nurturing support programs
Comprehensive leave options and flexible working hours to ensure work life balance.
Keep your health on track with our wellbeing programs covering fitness expenses and complimentary meals served around the clock
Employee Assistance Programs
Around the year employee events and casual dress every single day
A diverse team of friendly, fun and supportive co-workers to work with and, impact millions of daily players
Re-engage with your special interest by being a part of our employee resource groups that connect Zyngites through inclusivity, culture, lifestyle and fun
