Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Unannounced Project at Activision-Blizzard

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Gaming, EntertainmentIndustries

Requirements

Love to solve novel and exciting problems
Dislike solving the same problems over-and-over—so automate or eliminate them
Inspired to make everyone's job easier by improving workflows
Comfortable digging through metrics, logs, and whatever else is available to triage and fix an incident at any time
Strive to be better, smarter, and faster tomorrow than today
Enjoy trying new technologies to improve current processes
Okay using older technologies that are good enough and low maintenance
Naturally spread DevOps philosophies and practices to others
Like to collaborate with others to solve problems, share knowledge, and provide feedback
Can self-assess system or team needs and prioritize work
Relish working with software, network, cloud, and systems engineers across all stack tiers
Help peers succeed
Expertise in Service-Level Objectives (SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budget, Burn Rate)
Expertise in Distributed Systems (architectures, hybrid environments, high-availability)
Expertise in Configuration Management

Responsibilities

Being part of an on-call rotation to assist finding resolutions during incidents
Hosting blameless postmortems to share findings, discover gaps, embrace transparency, and improve reliability
Building positive and collaborative relationships across the company
Employing systems knowledge to triage problems and tune resource usage
Championing automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity
Helping define and instrument Service-Level Objectives to ensure epic player experiences
Demonstrating Configuration Management to build and maintain consistency across services
Building Terraform configs to manage infrastructure in public and private clouds
Supporting and improving build pipelines with Jenkins, Argo, and/or Spinnaker
Adopting Containers and Kubernetes for new and existing services
Applying everything-as-code methodologies across configuration, infrastructure, orchestration, and elsewhere
Managing services and infrastructure supporting Blizzard's platforms and games
Defining the future of running services for platforms and games with Kubernetes
Supporting massive global data platforms across multiple clouds
Performing and improving service migrations from one cloud/data center to another
Working closely with incubation teams to define how future products should operate
Integrating monitoring and logging with systems to improve observability and enable Service-Level Objectives
Designing and completing stress tests to validate scale expectations vs reality

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Argo

Spinnaker

Configuration Management

Automation

Service-Level Objectives

Monitoring

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Infrastructure

Activision-Blizzard

Develops and publishes interactive video games

About Activision-Blizzard

Activision Blizzard develops and publishes video games, creating popular franchises like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Candy Crush. Their games are available on various platforms and cater to a wide range of players, from casual mobile users to serious console and PC gamers. The company generates revenue through game sales, in-game purchases, subscriptions for games like World of Warcraft, and advertising through Activision Blizzard Media. They also profit from merchandise and esports events. What sets Activision Blizzard apart from competitors is its focus on high-quality gaming experiences that promote community and social interaction among players. The company's goal is to provide engaging and immersive entertainment that connects gamers worldwide.

Santa Monica, CaliforniaHeadquarters

1979Year Founded

$975MTotal Funding

IPOCompany Stage

Entertainment, GamingIndustries

1,001-5,000Employees