Senior DevOps Engineer

Africa's leading publisher of mobile games and digital content, operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech.
DevOps
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
4+ years of experience
Gaming · Finance

Description For Senior DevOps Engineer

Carry1st, Africa's leading publisher of mobile games and digital content, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team. Backed by prestigious investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony, and Nas, Carry1st operates at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, scaling content in frontier markets.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll be instrumental in architecting and maintaining systems that automate development and handle millions of daily active users. Your responsibilities will include optimizing AWS cloud deployments, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring robust security measures. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies including AWS services, web sockets, and various database and caching solutions.

The role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fully remote environment with a diverse, global team spread across 25+ countries. You'll be part of building industry-changing products while growing with a VC-backed startup. The position comes with attractive benefits including equity ownership, global co-working opportunities, equipment provision, and professional development support.

The ideal candidate brings 4+ years of DevOps experience in AWS environments, strong expertise in database architecture and caching technologies, and experience with tools like RabbitMQ, Jenkins, and Hashicorp. You should be self-motivated and thrive in a distributed team environment.

Join Carry1st to be part of a company that's revolutionizing mobile gaming and digital content in Africa while working with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Stillfront. Your work will directly impact millions of users while you help shape the future of gaming in frontier markets.

Last updated 5 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Optimize AWS cloud deployment for improved performance, security, and cost management
  • Deploy automation tools (CI/CD) to facilitate development and deployment of builds
  • Build and maintain development, staging, and production environments
  • Set up and execute progressive load tests simulating massive scale involving web sockets
  • Design procedures for system monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance
  • Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys

Requirements For Senior DevOps Engineer

Redis
MySQL
Linux
Kubernetes
  • 4+ years working as a DevOps Engineer in the AWS environment, with experience in services like EC2/ELB, Route53, S3
  • Experience optimizing web sockets with significant loads and database architecture (MySQL) and caching technologies (MemCached, Redis)
  • Experience with technologies such as RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Jira, Chef, and Hashicorp
  • Self-motivation, problem solving and ability to work in a distributed team environment

Benefits For Senior DevOps Engineer

Equity
  • Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
  • Own shares in the Company
  • Co-working excursions: Travel to meet colleagues in cities around the world
  • Awesome equipment provided
  • Remote working allowance: $600/year for WFH experience
  • Learning and development: Courses, conferences and training events
  • Social events with teammates
  • Birthday leave: Paid day off on birthday

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