Senior DevOps Engineer

About this Role
At Fandom, a Senior DevOps Engineer will be part of our Fandom Tabletop Operations team. D&D Beyond is the official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition and aims to enhance the D&D experience by making game management easier for players both at the table and between sessions. Players can create and manage track of characters, and browse all of the official rules in the compendium. We're also giving players the ability to create custom homebrew content to use in the toolset.
Our Fandom Tabletop Operations team is looking for an experienced operations engineer to join the Tabletop RPG team at Fandom and work on digital companions for the world's greatest role-playing games. We are excited to take the next steps in realizing our vision for Tabletop gaming—continuing to bring the most convenience, customization, and captivation to the TRPG community we can.
You will report to our Manager of Engineering.
You Will...
Write maintainable, high-quality... infrastructure as code in a team-based development environment
Use a shared codebase with peer reviews and pull requests
Help improve code integration and deployment processes
Participate and occasionally lead planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
Follow and improve processes and coding standards
Maintain project documentation
Work in an environment where you have a direct influence on product and technical decisions
Develop solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
Evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
Learn from and mentor other passionate engineers with diverse skills
Participate in on-call duties on a rotational basis.
Delight millions of D&D and Cortex players who are eager to use our products
You will be successful here because...
You solicit, accept, and give respectful and appropriate feedback
You design secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments
You can quickly troubleshooting complex problems, understanding dependencies, and deducing the root cause of issues.
You promote team projects through action
You do not fear failure
You Have...
Experience with scaling and monitoring production infrastructure for heavy user load, e.g. 1,000,000+ monthly active users.
Experience using AWS services to manage globally distributed infrastructure.
Experience managing relational or NoSQL databases in a production environment.
Solid experience managing Amazon Web Services using Terraform/CloudFormation
Experience building integrations and deployment pipelines.
Profound knowledge in scripting languages (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python), system & server administration.
You have run or played in your own Dungeons and Dragons or Cortex games.
5+ years of DevOps, System Operations, or Site Reliability experience.
Proficient with networking protocols (OSI network layers, TCP/IP).
Proficient in identifying and creating useful systems' metrics needed to maintain performance and availability.
Proficient knowledge of continuous integration tools such as AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins, Travis CI, Atlassian Bamboo.
Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and/or Kubernetes.
Proficient in monitoring and logging tools (NewRelic, Datadog, CloudWatch).
Proficient with managing data platforms (SQL, NoSQL, etc).
Preferred Skills
AWS / cloud infrastructure management and deployment
Terraform / Cloudformation
Linux & Windows administration
Apache / IIS / Varnish Configuration Language
Site Reliability and Monitoring tools (Statuscake, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, etc)
Docker / Kubernetes
SQL / MySQL / NoSQL
Python / bash scripting
Git
D&D/Tabletop gaming Interest/Passion
Bonus Points if You Have...
AWS certification(s)
Working knowledge of programming languages including C# and JavaScript (Node.js, Typescript, .NET, React, etc.)
Benefits & Perks
Stock options
Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
401k Plan (+matching)
Flexible time off - flexible and generous
Employee Assistance Programs and Support
About Fandom
Fandom is a global entertainment media brand powered by fan passion. Fandom has a global audience of almost 300 million monthly unique users and encompasses over 400,000 fan communities. We currently feature more than 55 million pages of content, inclusive of video. Our Fandom values are:
We serve a global community.Connection with our fans, creators, and partners is at our core, and it's grounded by our active efforts of inclusion.
We build experiences.We imagine, improve, and deliver solutions.
We bring joy.We celebrate our fandoms, our teammates, and the work we do.
Fandom is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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