Sobre esta vaga de DevOps Engineer (Game Production) na Nex
Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
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Reports to: Head of Developer Experience
Location: Hong Kong
Type: 6-month contract (with the possibility to convert or renew)
The Role
Nex Playground is bringing families together through active play, with games tailor made with motion mechanics in mind. To support our rapid game development, we rely on robust building and testing infrastructure, a scalable CICD pipeline and various server tools.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (Game Production), who will maintain tools and servers supporting our game production. It involves setting up monitors and reacting to problems early, ensuring that our developers can remain productive all the time. It also includes automating workflows and streamlining processes where applicable.
As part of the developer experience team, we will work alongside game developers to identify their pain points and need. We maintain existing tools while innovate for new ones. We help support and scale game content production at Nex.
What You'll Do
- Maintain our Unity build pipeline — Ensure its reliability and adopt new features.
- Server and tools monitoring — Set up proper monitoring and alerts for crucial components such as our package server and Developer Portal.
- Automate tools deployment — Adopt best practices for our tools development and deployment.
- Console configs and operations — Manage dev device firmwares and environments for our developers.
- Knowledge sharing with other DevOps teams — Stay up to date and grow together.
Must Have
- 3+ years of game development or DevOps experience
- Experience working with multiple teams / stakeholders
- Experience working with software involving multiple components / systems.
- Fierce empathy for fellow developers and other teams involved in game production, such as QA.
Should Have
- An obsession with code and product quality.
- Experience with tooling and automation.
- Knowledge of server deployment / maintenance, such as terraform.
- A growth mindset, always looking for more.
- Excitement about working in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
- A love for staying active and healthy, with a passion for helping others do the same.
We Offer
- Competitive compensation package.
- Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
- Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
- Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field
Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at https://www.nexplayground.com/about.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!
Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.
We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
