Senior DevOps Engineer

Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. Across our publishing and Pay1st business lines, we are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Stillfront. We are backed by top investors like: a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony and Nas.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and maintaining dynamic systems which can automate development and handle millions of daily active users.

You will...

• Optimize AWS cloud deployment for improved performance, security, and cost management
• Deploy automation tools (CI / CD) to facilitate the development and deployment of builds
• Building and maintaining development, staging, and production environments
• Set up and execute progressive load tests simulating massive scale involving web sockets
• Design procedures for system monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance 
• Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys

What makes you a great candidate?

• 4+ years working as a DevOps Engineer in the AWS environment, with experience in services like EC2 / ELB, Route53, S3
• Experience optimizing web sockets with significant loads and database architecture (MySQL) and caching technologies (MemCached, Redis)
• Experience with technologies such as RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Jira, Chef, and Hashicorp
• Self-motivation, problem solving and ability to work in a distributed team environment