Linux DevOps Engineer

We are Grinding Gear Games, creators of the award-winning dark fantasy Action RPG Path of Exile. We are seeking a Linux DevOps Engineer to join our server administration team at our office in Auckland, New Zealand.

Location: On-site in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand Relocation assistance (for the right candidate, if needed) Full time position - 40 hours a week

Responsibilities:

As one of our server administrators you will be responsible for supporting both our online game, Path of Exile, as well as our internal server infrastructure. You will also help maintain and improve the tooling and automation required by these systems.

To be considered you will need to have several years experience managing servers in a production environment, as well as a strong background in programming server-related automation (e.g. deployment and maintenance-related tasks).

Requirements:

• Cloud technology including managing VMs via APIs
• Assembling computer hardware and diagnosing hardware faults
• Compiling packages from source and creating custom debs/rpms
• Continuous integration (e.g. Buildbot)
• Our game, Path of Exile

Technologies used in this role - the more of these (or similar products) you have experience with, the better:

• Ubuntu and CentOS Linux distributions
• Python
• Bash
• Zabbix
• NGINX
• PostgreSQL
• Configuration management (e.g. Ansible)

On-Call rotation:

Two days in lieu will be credited at the end of your rostered on-call week. If a call out occurs outside your usual working hours, you'll be paid time and a half for the time spent working.

**You must be willing to participate in a basic scripting aptitude test using python, as well as a general practical test to assess Linux shell familiarity.

You also must be willing to be on-call on rotation.**

Grinding Gear Games is the developer and publisher of Path of Exile, the award-winning online ARPG. Founded and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the company was established in 2006 and released Path of Exile in 2013, winning GameSpot's PC Game of the Year Award that year. Since then, we have continued to evolve Path of Exile with over 45 expansions, eventually winning the 2020 BAFTA award for Best Evolving Game.

Path of Exile 2 is in full production and has been released in Early Access as of Q4 2024 - we're looking for world-class artists, animators and programmers to help us continue to develop it. Come be part of our story and join us at Grinding Gear Games