Lead devops

col-narrow-left    Client: Ubisoft Location: Paris, France  Job Category: Other – EU work permit required: Yes col-narrow-right    Job Reference: 6b532a0506e3 Job Views: 1 Posted: 12.09.2023 Expiry Date: 27.10.2023 col-wide    Job Description:

Job Description

Ubisoft’s pioneering studio, Paris studio was responsible for the publisher’s first successes following its creation in 1992. Today, it is at the helm of such must-have licenses as Just Dance, Ghost Recon and Mario + The Rabbids. Ubisoft Paris has also built a solid reputation as a partner of choice in cross-studio collaborations such as Watch Dogs, Skull & Bones, Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Star Wars. Building on this experience, the studio continues to push the boundaries of creativity by working on some very promising yet unannounced projects.

With 750 talents of 35 nationalities, Ubisoft Paris is today the largest studio in France and one of the most experienced in the industry. Young talents can benefit from the strong presence of senior profiles in the creative, technical or artistic fields. Everyone is driven by the same passion: to push the limits of what is possible and to offer new experiences to our players.

Ready to join the adventure? Join us at the ! 

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For the Ubisoft Paris studio, and more specifically for one of its flagship games, we are recruiting a Lead RBS.

In this role, you will manage a team of five people in technical areas. In particular, you will work on :

Technology

Build, develop & share a solid technical vision with your team and the project for your area of responsibility

Act as a go-to person and expert in all topics DevOps (e.g. automation, infrastructure definition, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, continuous integration and delivery, etc.)

Optimize & improve your systems and software to reach client’s needs in terms of uptime, availability & resilience depending on project milestones (using monitoring, alerting, KPI’s, automated tests etc.)

Document systems and procedures

Be a key stake holder in the whole lifecycle of services, from design, deployment, operation and optimization

Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

Be responsible for the scaling of your systems and build farm in collaboration with IT

Administrate our version control tools

Actively keep yourself informed with what is happening in your field and in the industry

People management

Actively manage the performance of your team members, and share honest, regular, and constructive feedback with them

Consider your team’s success and achievements as an indispensable part of your own success

Prioritize tasks, regulate pressure, and distribute workloads fairly, overseeing efficiency and quality

Make the best use of your team members’ skills and plan ahead what they will need to continue to perform

Show and explain the long-term direction to your team in an impactful and inspiring way

Make sure everyone is aligned and understands how they contribute to the team and company long term goals by breaking them down into medium term milestones and objectives

Take decisions effectively, keeping in mind the big picture and their sustainability in the long term for your team and for the company

Walk the talk and follow through your commitments, expecting the same behaviour from your team members

Break down silos and promote transversal cooperation between your team and the rest of the company

Qualifications

About 5 years of experience in programming in the software or video game industry, ideally in site reliability engineering or network administration (server automation, version control, build management)

You have experience leading and managing a team

Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and collaborative skills

Experience managing complex build systems

In-depth knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment tools (ideally for both SDKs and online services: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Team City or equivalent,

In-depth knowledge of infrastructure such as NuGet, Artifactory, and Docker/Kubernetes

Familiarity with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, Azure, and OpenStack

Version Control administration experience (Perforce/Git)

Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence

Your fluency in English allows you to grow in an international team

You have experience with C#, Python or other scripting languages

Attention to detail, critical thinking, resourcefulness, and plenty of flexibility

Tagged as: Automation, Bones, Collaboration, Configuration Management, Constructive Feedback, Continuous Integration, Creativity, Design, Devops, Incident Response, Infrastructure, People Management, Resilience, Uptime, Version Control