Job Specifications
Who We Are
KingsIsle Entertainment, established in 2005, is a proven MMO hit-maker with 50+ million registered users across both of our MMO games with vibrant and strong communities. Our award-winning game Wizard101 is currently in its 17th year and Pirate101 is in its 13th. We attribute our success to great people, and we recognize the value of every team member. We work hard and have fun, whether with lunchtime gaming sessions or office outings to the movies. The working environment, friendly teammates, and support for growing careers contribute to the long tenures many enjoy at KingsIsle.
The KingsIsle Web Team is a friendly and motivated group of builders, testers, and managers who put the quality of what we produce above all else. Experience taught us that high standards are better achieved through effective collaboration, knowledge duplication, and personal development. We make time for each team member to take courses and work on interest projects. The team reserves regular time slots to discuss successes and failures after each Sprint. The senior members are encouraged and empowered to mentor so our junior members often experience tremendous growth. We build enterprise web applications with proven success serving millions, and our continued quest for improvement drives increasing sophistication in test automation, performance/security monitoring, and agile product delivery.
How You Can Contribute
Automate the mundane transform repetitive, error-prone tasks into reliable automation that accelerates development and reduces friction
Engineer for resilience anticipate and prevent failures before they happen by designing systems that heal, scale, and adapt under pressure
Own your craft end-to-end from architecture to deployment to continuous improvement, you'll shape infrastructure that teams can trust
Code the foundation use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.) to define environments that are reproducible, auditable, and version controlled
Illuminate the unknowns build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems that surface insights early and empower teams to act fast
Containerize with purpose design and deploy containerized applications that are efficient, portable, and secure by design
Champion security and compliance integrate protection and auditability into every stage of the delivery pipeline, not as an afterthought
Collaborate deeply partner with developers, QA, operations, and product to align velocity with stability, innovation with reliability
Requirements
Who You Are
You are a hands-on DevOps / infrastructure engineer who thrives at the intersection of development and operations. You're comfortable working across systems, automation, and tooling, and you know how to simplify complexity without compromising reliability or security.
You have 2+ years of practical DevOps / infrastructure engineering experience, preferably working both on-premises and in cloud environments
You have deep experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tooling (Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar)
You've designed, built, and maintained CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent) and automated deployment workflows
You're proficient with Linux across multiple distributions (Alpine, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.) and can troubleshoot kernel, networking, or OS issues
You have experience containerizing applications (Docker) and orchestrating them at scale (Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)
You've built or operated observability infrastructures: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident detection
You understand and apply security best practices: IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, encryption, network isolation
You can write scripts or small applications (Python, Bash, Groovy, etc.) to glue systems, resolve gaps, or automate tasks
You are fluent with version control workflows (Git, feature branches / merge requests, code reviews)
You are a confident communicator: able to convey technical tradeoffs, risks, and constraints across engineering, product, and non-technical teams
You are self-motivated, proactive in surfacing and solving problems, and comfortable working independently or in cross-functional settings
You Will
Be part of our "always learning, always respectful" team culture, and make it better!
Have an important voice in solving real-world business and/or development problems
Work closely with game designers, marketing strategists, data analysts, and operations professionals
Be a key part of our web/platform team that serves millions of users in critical business and social capacities
Have access to tremendous experience and domain knowledge from the leadership team. They are great mentors
Be exposed to all aspects of development life, including design, implementation, project-leading, DevOps, QA, and automation
Extra Points If You Have
Experience with Agile based methodologies - e.g. Scrum, Sprints, etc
Exposure to other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
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