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Senior Cloud Engineer

StockholmRemoteFull-time

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Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining cloud infrastructure (GCP) for Apex Connect, focusing on scalable, secure, and cost-efficient backend services and IaC/CI/CD improvements.

About this role

Avalanche Studios Group is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer for our central technology organisation, Tech Foundations. In this crossfunctional team we innovate in areas that push the boundaries for what open-world sandbox gaming means as well as enhance our players' online experience within our live-service games.
The Position:
In this role, you will contribute to developing and optimising our backend platform, Apex Connect, and its infrastructure in the cloud. Apex Connect is an integral part of the Apex Engine suite, a robust set of tools and services driving our live-service games. It plays a pivotal role in engaging millions of active players globally, providing essential services such as user authentication, data tracking, live event management, and advanced matchmaking.
As a Cloud Engineer, you will be a part of our engineering team, focusing on setting up, operating, and refining our infrastructure in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

What you'll do:

  • Designing, implementing and maintaining our backend platform infrastructure architecture
  • Ensuring that our infrastructure is scalable, secure, performant and cost-efficient
  • Leading the transition and expansion of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Improving our CI/CD pipeline to ensure developer experience as well as service stability
  • Supporting other members of the team, fostering an inclusive environment of growth and development within Tech Foundations
  • Provide technical excellence and problem solving
  • Be a champion for cost-efficiently running services in commercial cloud environments
  • Be a champion for the scaling of backend infrastructure to meet high availability requirements

    • Who you are:

  • 3+ years of professional experience with cloud or hybrid infrastructure (preferably GCP)
  • Able to set and explain measurable goals for service quality
  • Experience with Redis, Memcache, or equivalent
  • Experience working with package management and dependency
  • Proficiency with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
  • Experience in establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Professional experience with one or more of the following programming languages Python, Go or C++
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.)
  • A solid understanding of software architecture
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
    • Bonus
  • Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana and Google Cloud Monitoring
  • Experience with Cloudflare DNS and Cloudflare DDoS protection products
  • A passion and interest in gaming

    • Skills

    AnsibleC++ChefCI/CD PipelinesCI/CD ToolingCloudflare DDoS ProtectionCloudflare DNSContainer OrchestrationDependency ManagementGCPGOGoogle Cloud MonitoringGrafanaInfrastructure As CodeKubernetesMemcachedPackage ManagementPrometheusPythonRedisSoftware ArchitectureTerraform

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