Golang Job: Cloud Engineer

The Activision Infrastructure team is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join the team either 100% remotely, or in our offices in Vancouver, Canada or in Sherman Oaks, California. This team supports a variety of cloud workloads and you will be instrumental in setting standards and supporting key technologies. You will help drive efficiencies and both cost and performance within Amazon Web Services and the Google Cloud Platform.

We work on building solid Cloud Foundations, as well as large, distributed systems such as Kafka and Cassandra, and keep them running in the Cloud. We help internal teams build large projects on Google Cloud using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Build a solid Cloud Foundations platform for our internal development teams
• Implement monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance and resource utilization that identifies service disruptions
• Develop and manage consistent and coherent SRE processes and practices to support software development, testing, builds and deployment
• Assist in building infrastructure & tools architecture design to enable high uptime, minimize failures, ensure applications & data security, and expedite diagnostics
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve technical issues efficiently in a live production environment, and drive to quick resolutions, help with root cause diagnosis, and suggest improvements to prevent similar issues
• Participate in an on-call support rotation
• Consider security, sustainability, and supportability concerns with all work

Role Requirements

• Proven experience Designing and Engineering large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with Container Orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Working knowledge of source code control systems such as GitHub
• Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Bash/Python/golang)
• Experience with CI platforms like Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
• Solid knowledge of public cloud architecture concepts and practice (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience managing reproducible infrastructure, e.g., Infrastructure as Code
• Knowledge of system and/or application monitoring

• Knowledge of HashiCorp products like Vault, Consul, Terraform or similar products
• Ansible or Ansible AWX experience
• Knowledge of Container Network Interfaces (e.g., Callico, Cilium, etc)
• Clear understanding of Networking concepts (e.g., Firewalls, VPC, VPN, DNS, etc.)
• Working knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Web servers/reverse proxies such as nginx, apache httpd, and haproxy
• Monitoring, trending & diagnostics tools such as Prometheus
• Logging tools such as ELK, Loki, GCP Cloud Logging, etc.
• Alerting tools such as PagerDuty
• Work/defect tracking & Wiki systems such as Jira/Confluence
• Knowledge of the use and maintenance of continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD systems

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.