DevOps Engineer (Online Gaming)
Summary
DevOps engineer designing and running the CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and observability for live online gaming services in the Philippines. Day to day covers Terraform-based IaC, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog, incident response, and on-call rotation.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for game and platform services, ensuring automated testing, security scanning, and deployment gates are enforced.
Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform for cloud and on-premises environments.
Implement and maintain containerization and orchestration platforms, such as Docker and Kubernetes, supporting game and platform services.
Monitor system health, performance, and availability using observability tooling, responding to incidents and alerts.
Automate deployment, scaling, and rollback processes to support live operations (LiveOps) changes with minimal downtime.
Collaborate with development teams to improve build, test, and release processes and reduce lead time.
Manage secrets, credentials, and configuration using centralized secrets management tooling.
Support incident response and post-incident reviews for production issues, driving root-cause remediation.
Maintain and harden cloud infrastructure in line with security baselines and compliance requirements.
Participate in the on-call rotation to support production systems.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS/KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
Deployment frequency and change failure rate.
Mean time to recovery (MTTR) for production incidents.
Pipeline build and deployment success rate.
System uptime and availability against SLA targets.
Reduction in manual deployment and operational tasks through automation.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience: 3+ years in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or infrastructure engineering role, ideally
supporting high-availability, real-time platforms such as online gaming.
Skills & Knowledge: Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud
platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), scripting (Python, Bash), and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
Certifications (good to have): AWS/Azure/GCP certification or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) preferred.
