Are you a Senior DevOps Engineer? Want to work for one of the world’s leading MMO's?
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team. This team is Jagex’s Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), responsible for governing Cloud platforms and empowering Development teams to utilise Cloud platforms in a secure, scalable, and standardised way.
It's an exciting opportunity to play a crucial role in the future of RuneScape, helping to define Jagex’s hosting infrastructure and DevOps practices.
What you'll be doing:
Cloud Center of Excellence:
- Helping to define secure Configuration Standards for Cloud resources.
- Developing and maintaining Landing Zones and Guardrails in a complex, multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure).
- Supporting Development teams to comply with Configuration Standards.
- Supporting organization level Cloud cost management and optimization.
- Producing standardized Infrastructure-as-Code modules for reuse throughout the organization.
- Producing standardized VM and Container images for reuse throughout the organization.
- Supporting the Security team in monitoring organization wide Cloud Security Posture Management findings and helping Development teams to resolve them.
Cloud Platform Operations:
- Maintaining centralized Cloud services, such as AWS Cloud WAN, AWS Backup, and AWS Security Hub.
- Maintaining Cloud based Developer tooling, such as Perforce Helix Core, Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, and TeamCity.
- Defining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Capture and monitor Service Level Indicators for our team’s services and work to ensure that Service Level Objectives are met.
- Programming using Python.
- Supporting peers through code reviews, thorough documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring.
What you'll need:
- Extensive experience in AWS, particularly with managing medium-large multi-account Organizations.
- Strong understanding of Cloud security architecture and relevant tooling (AWS: IAM, SCP, RCP, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, Config, Firewall Manager).
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with CI/CD tools (TeamCity, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Experience integrating security checks and controls in CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with containerized infrastructure (ECS, EKS, Docker).
- Solid programming skills in Python or a similar high-level language.
- Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and SIEM tools.
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 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.
