Online Infrastructure Engineer [IT Game Services]

Massive Entertainment is a world-leading AAA studio located in Malmö, Sweden and part of the Ubisoft family. We’re a multinational team of more than 750 passionate and highly skilled people from 50+ different countries. Our studio’s goal has always been – and still is – to craft the finest gaming experiences for all players.

At Massive, you get to do what you love most while bringing your own experience to our ongoing projects, like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws. We're also developing new tech here, such as our in-house engine Snowdrop, and Ubisoft Connect - Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform. 

Job Description

As an Online Infrastructure Engineer, you will be part of the development team for Tom Clancy’s The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws. Your primary role will be to design, implement and operate a global scale game server infrastructure for the mentioned AAA online games. You will work closely with stakeholders at Massive as well as within the Ubisoft group across the globe, to help ship a great online experience for our players using the latest technologies available.

We're offering a permanent position in Malmö, Sweden, with the flexibility to work partially from home (up to two days a week) under our Flexible Workplace Policy. Please apply using English, our company's primary language.

What You'll Do:

• Designing, implementing, and operating a highly scalable, global and efficient game server infrastructure
• Improving and maintaining our monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring timely detection and response to potential issues.
• Partnering with development teams to improve services
• Collaborating with other IT engineers, stakeholders, and external vendors to implement, upgrade or integrate existing or new systems.
• Creating sustainable systems and services through infrastructure automation
• Managing incidents and partake in the on-call rotation

Qualifications

What You'll Bring

You are comfortable working autonomously, and you know how to structure your tasks. We believe you can take factual, data-driven decisions and convey your ideas clearly and concisely to other team members, peers or stakeholders. You enjoy working and collaborating with a team, who are open to new ideas and are learning and experimenting together to come up with creative and innovative ways of solving technical problems.

Besides the above we’re looking for someone aligned with  our core values   and the following skills and experience:

• Cloud service providers like Azure (preffered), GCP, AWS
• Familiarity with software development using Go as well as Python languages
• Infrastructure orchestration using Terraform
• Networking expertise, including VPCs, VPN, DNS, firewalls, and load balancers within the context of cloud providers
• Secret and certificate management, such as Hashicorp Vault
• CI/CD Pipelines with Packer, Git/Gitlab
• Experience deploying and maintaining service and infrastructure monitoring using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK stack
• Expertise in Kubernetes for container orchestration is beneficial
• Previous experience with RDBMS is beneficial (ie. PostgreSQL)
• Linux experience is beneficial

Good to know:

As we aim to build a team who continuously define the boundaries of what’s possible within game development (and because we love to learn and grow from the people around us), we might ask you to do a practical test as a part of the recruitment process. We look forward to receiving your application and learning more about you.

Additional Information

Ubisoft’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown. 

You can also find a summary of the Massive Job Perks here.  

Questions? We're more than happy to answer them! Please contact  Paula Roese Mesquita , Talent Acquisition Partner for this position.