Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location

Bromley, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

About Splash damage

We believe that games play better with friends. For more than 20 years, we’ve been creating team-based multiplayer experiences that have entertained tens of millions of players all over the world and forged countless new friendships along the way.    

Our studio culture is rooted in our open, friendly, and collaborative environment. Our games are made by people from all over the world, from our entry-level Fresh Talent hires to industry veterans, and we believe that fostering that diverse culture is the best way to build both our games and our studio. We have won numerous awards, including a ‘World-Class’ accreditation by Best Companies and being named one of the UK’s 100 Best Large Companies to work for.    

Our offices are based in Bromley, UK.    

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family, including:    

• Substantial performance-related pay system on top of your basic compensation, along with enhanced pension contributions and our life assurance scheme.    

• 4 day work week: Tuesday - Friday    

• 20 days of annual leave, equivalent to 5 weeks within a 4 day work week.    

• Summer & Winter closure, not taken from holiday allowance - 1st full week of August and Christmas Eve to New Years day.    

• Bespoke VISA and relocation packages for you and your family, with support from our team throughout the whole process.    

• Private Medical and Dental Cover for you and your family, along with a 24/7 digital GP service.    

• Extensive Mental Health support, with Line Manager Mental Health training, a group of Mental Health First-Aiders, and on-site or remote counselling.    

• Our bespoke Learning and Development course framework to help you grow as an employee, manager, and leader.    

• Industry-leading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave & 10 weeks paternity leave.   

Members of the Builds and Infrastructure team are responsible for maintaining and contributing to the build, release, and internal development infrastructure that underpin our award winning live-service multiplayer games. 

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will use your knowledge and experience to plan, build, and maintain the infrastructure on which we run internal development services. These services span bare metal in the office and multiple cloud providers. You are responsible for ensuring developers can deploy and operate services with ease. 

We believe that constantly improving our skills is an essential part of the job and offer regular leadership, management, and mentoring training opportunities. 

You excel at  

• Working with members of multiple disciplines to effectively elicit requirements and communicate opportunities as well as constraints.     
• Working effectively in open and collaborative environments.     
• Employing a can-do attitude to solve difficult problems as part of an agile, fast-moving, and highly-focused team.     
• Communicating ideas, intent, and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.     

You have

• Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring a fleet of bare metal servers, virtual machines, and containers.     
• Experience operating an internal platform-as-a-service.     
• Experience working with cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, and/or Azure.     
• Experience managing infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform.     
• Experience using configuration tooling such as Ansible.     
• Experience with scripting languages, Python being the preference.     
• Experience with a version control system such as Git.     

Even better if you have

• Experience with Perforce.     
• Experience with multiplayer games.     
• Experience managing and integrating content delivery networks (CDN).     

Splash Damage is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe our teams create better work when they have a range of perspectives to draw from, and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment that celebrates diversity.    

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