Senior DevOps Engineer (Kick)

Engineering@Easygo

Are you a passionate and ambitious Senior DevOps Engineer ready to dive into an environment that fosters innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth?

We are seeking enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineers, who are eager to tackle complex problems, build scalable solutions for our live video streaming platform, Kick.com.

You'll be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure. You will work closely with our development teams to ensure that our cloud environment meets our high standards for performance, reliability and scalability.

Who are we?

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Headquartered in the city of Melbourne, our growth has been remarkable. From humble beginnings to a thriving workforce of 400+, we've expanded not only in numbers but in ambition.

Qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience.
• 6-8+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks (Terraform, NodeJS/Typescript etc).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges at scale.
• Experience working with complex microservices architecture, high user volume and large-scale distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPC etc).
• Experience with AWS native services (EC2, Lambda, Codebuild, Eventbridge).
• Domain experience with technology stacks including AWS EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform / Terragrunt and Datadog / Cloudflare
• Understanding of security best practices and implementation.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership, and boast an attitude of getting stuff done.

Key Responsibilities:

• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Improve and ensure monitoring and logging of the system is of the highest standard.
• Ensure systems are secure and safe from vulnerabilities, and ensuring security is maintained with system enhancements. 
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, communicating technical concepts and project updates.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring junior engineers in the team.

Some of the perks of working for us:

• Championing the DevOps mindset to influence cultural change across an engineering organisation.
• Working alongside our Full-Stack Engineers in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8's, Go, Terraform, Typescript, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
• EAP access for you and your family.
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
• A full-time barista who will make you coffee, tea and fresh juices.
• Daily catered breakfast.
• Massage Wednesdays.
• Team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles.
• Paid volunteer day.
• Office first culture with flexible start and finish times.
• Unlimited access to drinks and snacks.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.