Senior Online Infrastructure Engineer [IT Game Services]

Job description

Massive Entertainment is a world-leading AAA studio located in Malmö, Sweden and part of the Ubisoft family. We’re a multinational team of more than 750 passionate and highly skilled people from 50+ different countries. Our studio’s goal has always been – and still is – to craft the finest gaming experiences for all players.  

At Massive, you get to do what you love most while bringing your own experience to our ongoing projects, like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws. We're also developing new tech here, such as our in-house engine Snowdrop, and Ubisoft Connect - Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform. 

As a Senior Online Infrastructure Engineer, you will be part of the development team for Tom Clancy’s The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws. Your primary role will be to design, implement, and operate a global-scale game server infrastructure for these AAA online games. You will work closely with stakeholders at Massive and within the Ubisoft group worldwide to help deliver a great online experience for our players using the latest technologies.

We're offering a permanent position in Malmö, Sweden, with the flexibility to work partially from home (up to two days a week) under our Flexible Workplace Policy. Please apply using English, our company's primary language.

What You'll Do:

·  Design, implement, and operate a highly scalable, global, and efficient game server infrastructure.
·  Improve and maintain our monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring timely detection and response to potential issues.
·  Partner with development teams to improve services.
·  Collaborate with other IT engineers, stakeholders, and external vendors to implement, upgrade, or integrate existing or new systems.
·  Create sustainable systems and services through infrastructure automation.
·  Manage incidents and participate in the on-call rotation.

What You'll Bring

You are a seasoned professional who is comfortable working autonomously and structuring your tasks efficiently. You excel at making factual, data-driven decisions and conveying your ideas clearly and concisely to team members, peers, and stakeholders. You thrive in a collaborative environment where new ideas are welcomed, and you enjoy learning and experimenting with your team to find creative and innovative solutions to technical challenges. Besides the above we’re looking for someone aligned with  our core values   and the following skills and experience:

·  Experience with cloud service providers like Azure, GCP, AWS.
·  Familiarity with software development using Go and Python languages.
·  Infrastructure orchestration using Terraform.
·  Networking expertise, including VPCs, VPN, DNS, firewalls, and load balancers within the context of cloud providers.
·  Secret and certificate management, such as Hashicorp Vault.
·  CI/CD Pipelines with Packer, Git/Gitlab.
·  Experience deploying and maintaining service and infrastructure monitoring using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK stack.
·  Expertise in Kubernetes for container orchestration is beneficial.
·  Previous experience with RDBMS (e.g., PostgreSQL) is beneficial.
·  Linux experience is beneficial.

Good to know:

As we aim to build a team who continuously define the boundaries of what’s possible within game development (and because we love to learn and grow from the people around us), we might ask you to do a practical test as a part of the recruitment process. We look forward to receiving your application and learning more about you.

 

Ubisoft’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown. 

You can also find a summary of the Massive Job Perks here.    

Questions? We're more than happy to answer them! Please contact Natalie Bahrton Ebenfelt , Talent Acquisition Partner for this position.