SRE Engineer (World of Warships, PC)

Job Overview

Wargaming is looking for an SRE Engineer to work on World of Warships web and infrastructure services in our Belgrade office.

The team is responsible for dozens of web and infrastructure services at all stages of their life cycle.

You will design and implement high-availability services in collaboration with development teams and QA engineers, work on monitoring systems and automation solutions, and maintain integration and delivery pipelines, as well as development and production environments.

What will you do?

• Operation of production and staging infrastructure: keep applications up and running
• Support CI in Gitlab and TeamCity
• Develop and maintain application monitoring and incident alerting
• Migration from in-house orchestrator to k8s
• Work on system's reliability
• Optimize processes with automation (Python or Go)
• Participate in on-call duties for production environments
• Participate in application deployments outside of working hours (scheduled, once in 4 weeks; if needed)
• Mitigate security vulnerabilities
• Containerize/(migrate to k8s) applications running on VM's if possible and makes sense

Additional notes:

• We have L1 support, you don't need to sit in front of monitoring dashboards
• We're not responsible for VM setup and k8s - we have dedicated teams for these tasks
• Writing Puppet code is minimal

What will you work with?

• VM and container-based (Kubernetes and in-house orchestration solution) applications
• Custom Python/Go tools / Puppet / Terraform
• GitLab / Teamcity
• PostgreSQL/ RabbitMQ / Prometheus

What are we looking for?

• Strong understanding of GNU/Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of debugging tools such as tcpdump, strace, lsof
• Worked on identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, monitoring/alerting rules
• Coding experience beyond simple scripts
• Experience in programming with Python; experience with Go is a plus
• Understanding of web application principles
• Ability to debug applications using logs, metrics
• Team player with good communication skills
• Intermediate English level or higher
• Readiness to work in Belgrade, Serbia (we help with relocation)

What additional skills will help you stand out?

• Experience in migration from bare metal/VPS to Kubernetes
• Experience working with and administering PostgreSQL and MySQL databases
• Experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience working with monitoring systems
• Experience creating web services

Benefits

Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Belgrade include:

• Additional Vacation days on top of the statutory minimum dependent on years of service with Wargaming Group
• Up to 8 “Trust days” per calendar year that require no medical certificate
• Career development and education opportunities within the company
• English clubs and platform for learning languages
• Premium Private Health Care
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Commuting allowance
• Gym trainings / Wellness program
• Personal Gaming Account
• Coffee, fruits, and snacks in the office
• Company events
• Seniority Awards
• Referral program - you can recommend the best talents to the Company and receive a reward

About Wargaming

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Operating since 1998, Wargaming has become one of the leaders in the gaming industry with 15 offices worldwide, including studios in Chicago, Prague, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Vilnius. Our diverse and multicultural team works together to deliver a top-class experience to millions of players who enjoy Wargaming's titles across all major gaming platforms. Our flagship products include free-to-play hits World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Tanks Blitz.

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