Hybrid Lead DevOps Engineer

at Twin Harbour Interactive

• Job title: Lead DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Cloud, Docker, Java, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform, Webpack
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hamburg, Germany

About the role

• Lead DevOps Engineer managing DevOps projects for high-quality strategy games at Twin Harbour Interactive. Collaborating with teams to optimize production systems and improve development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and be part of an experienced and excellent DevOps team.
• Manage and execute key DevOps projects, from planning to delivery, guide technical decision-making.
• Align DevOps strategies with company goals and provide expert guidance on best practices and tooling.
• Maintain our high-availability production systems by creating stability and scalability.
• Analyze and optimize our high-performance / high-traffic systems on OS & application level.
• Spearhead tooling efforts by prototyping, setting up, establishing, and fine-tuning new tools to improve performance and our dev life.
• Maintain and improve the automated development processes and improve development workflows (Github Actions, Helm, ArgoCD, Ansible, Docker, Webpack, Fastlane, etc.).
• Collaborate closely with the game development, community, and product teams, and our sister studios within the Stillfront Group.
• Broaden your knowledge and deepen your skills through conferences and training and share your learnings with the team afterwards.

Requirements

• Experience with leading a (DevOps) team and the ability to execute on a roadmap effectively and pragmatically.
• Excellent skills in IT maintenance, database/network architecture, systems integration, as well as automation and system administration (Debian, Linux).
• Experience with high-load / high-availability systems and load optimizations.
• Experience with cloud systems (ideally Google Cloud) and connected management tools (i.e. Terraform / Kubernetes etc).
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art build systems, tech stacks, and toolchains.
• Passion to extend your knowledge and try out new technologies.
• Good skills in Java or other high-level programming languages.
• Experience in shipping, developing, and running at least one commercial product or game.
• Ability to articulate and document technical designs clearly and analytically.
• Fluent English, both verbal and written.

Benefits

• A Global Team, A Shared Purpose
• Work Your Way
• Grow With Us
• We're Human First