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About the Role

Big Viking Games is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, maintain, secure, and modernize the infrastructure supporting live-service games and internal development workflows. This hands-on role requires expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and production reliability, with a focus on balancing legacy systems and modern patterns. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to enhance system build, deployment, monitoring, and operation, emphasizing practicality, security, and automation to improve efficiency and reliability.

Responsibilities

Monitor, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure across AWS, Netlify, Vercel, and related platforms.
Drive infrastructure modernization while maintaining uptime for live games.
Build, maintain, and improve automation for deployments, environment management, provisioning, secrets rotation, and operational workflows.
Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar.
Maintain and monitor data pipelines between game source databases, the Snowflake data warehouse, and downstream analytics and reporting systems.
Improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, and deployment reliability.
Own secrets and credential lifecycle management across platforms.
Support and improve the infrastructure that powers AI and automation tooling.
Improve observability across the stack: logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and operational visibility.
Support incident response, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and post-incident improvements.
Help manage cloud spend, infrastructure usage, resource tagging, and environment efficiency.
Create clear documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and repeatable processes for infrastructure and DevOps workflows.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or a similar role.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
Experience designing, maintaining, and improving production infrastructure, including comfort with legacy systems.
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Pulumi, or similar.
Experience with containerized applications, especially Docker.
Experience with CI/CD tools, version control, deployment automation, and modern release workflows.
Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, cloud security, monitoring, logging, and operational troubleshooting.
Experience supporting production systems where uptime, reliability, and performance matter.
Experience with relational databases (MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres) and comfort working adjacent to data pipelines and ETL processes.
Security-aware mindset with practical experience in secrets management, credential rotation, access control, vulnerability reduction, and least-privilege practices.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate complex infrastructure or production issues.
Ability to work closely with software engineers to improve build, deploy, and operational workflows.
Comfort creating documentation, runbooks, and repeatable operating processes.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Practical ownership mindset with the ability to prioritize, execute, and close loops.

Skills

AWS
Netlify
Vercel
Terraform
CloudFormation
CDK
Docker
CI/CD
Version Control
Linux
Networking
Cloud Security
Monitoring
Logging
Troubleshooting
MariaDB
MySQL
Postgres
Snowflake
Secrets Management
Credential Rotation
Access Control
Vulnerability Reduction
Least-Privilege Practices
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Jenkins
CircleCI
Buildkite
Datadog
Grafana
Prometheus
CloudWatch
ELK
OpenTelemetry
Redis
Memcached
Serverless Platforms
AWS Lambda
Kubernetes
ECS
EKS
Nomad
AI/ML Workflows
API Integrations
Make.com
Claude
ChatGPT
Gemini

Location

Toronto

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$95,000 to $115,000

Benefits

Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation
Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage
Health and Wellness spending account
Generous time off policies

About the Company

Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities.
Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies.
Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime.
We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger infrastructure, better automation, practical AI adoption, improved reliability, stronger security practices, and scalable systems.

Equal Opportunity

Big Viking Games is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates.
We welcome applications from individuals of all abilities and will provide accommodations throughout the hiring process as needed.
If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please contact hr@bigvikinggames.com so we can work with you to support your needs.