Service DevOps Engineer Intern (game studio)
Remote
Internship
About the Role
Working primarily with the CTO of our partner game studio, the Service DevOps Engineer is responsible for overseeing and maintaining the health and resiliency of the studio’s backend services. The backend is primarily Azure based and makes extensive use of Azure Functions and Azure Table Storage along with Azure Blob Storage, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Service Bus and Azure PubSub. The backend is written in Typescript and runs on Node.js. This role does not require direct software development experience, for the right candidate this role could become a hybrid DevOps and Software Development role. As part of the role, there will be opportunities for both technical and career mentoring including regular 1-1s with the CTO and participation in the wider team’s meetings.
Responsibilities:
Backend infrastructure configuration
Managing service code deployments
Backend health monitoring including critical error alerts
Identifying ways to improve all aspects of our backend including deployment, monitoring documentation, alerts, metrics, reporting
Development of scripts and tooling as appropriate
Load Testing and Scalability
CI/CD
Documentation of existing systems and processes
Basic Security analysis and threat modeling
Required: (please ensure you meet the listed requirements prior to applying)
Hands-on, demonstrable experience of working with a large IAAS such as Azure, AWS, GCP or CloudFlare
Basic understanding of web-based applications and life-cycle such as request, response as well as core concepts such as HTTP response codes, request headers, etc.
REST based Web Services
Familiarity with JSON
Basic experience of scripting - bash, python,batch scripts, powershell, etc
Working familiarity with Git.
Preferred:
Working knowledge of Linux, particularly command line tools
Some working knowledge of industry standard deployment and management tools such as Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform
Python development experience
Typescript/Javascript + Node.js development experience
Please include resume and portfolio as appropriate
About the Company
Jackalope Productions is committed to our contribution to a better technology industry through diversity and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and facilitator between our clients and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and contracts without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, parental responsibilities or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or hiring process, please contact us.