Azure Devops Engineer, Keywords Studios
Technical & creative services provider
Open for applications
Technical & creative services provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To use the passion for games, technology, and media to create a global services platform for video games.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will have a proactive “can do” attitude to drive global cloud first initiatives
- You will be comfortable leading projects and have a continual learning approach. This role is 100% remote
- 5+ years experience in a similar role - Cloud Engineer, IT Administrator, Systems Engineer
- Scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI)
- A strong understanding of the Azure & Office 365 ecosystem
- Hands on experience of ARM Templates / JSON
- Azure data protection and security architecture/features
- Azure Administrator certification (e.g. AZ-104, AZ-400; AZ-303; AZ-304) is required
- Disaster Recovery / High Availability technologies
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure server-less architecture
Desirable
- Experience managing: Amazon AWS, Azure, Google Cloud an advantage
- ARM Templates
- Azure
- Azure CLI
- Azure DevOps
- Cloud
- Containerization
- JSON
- PowerShell
- SCCM
- SCOM
What the job involves
- Keywords Studios are seeking an experienced and certified Azure Specialists with strong DevOps skills for a permanent role
- The successful Azure Specialists will support Keywords Studios Azure services and regional teams within traditional technical on-prem and hosted architecture
- Overall administration and management of growing hybrid and pure cloud solutions
- Plan, deploy & support Azure Windows Desktop Services (WDS) implementations
- Mobile Device Management - InTune policy management
- Azure migration from On-Prem/Cloud to Azure Platform, Microsoft SQL
- Build, deploy and support technologies for an Azure platform
- Automation of Azure infrastructure
- Support Azure Architecture (IaaS & PaaS)
- In depth experience of ARM and PowerShell Scripting using a GIT repository
- Azure tenancy and subscription management
- Creation of auto-remediate scripting for cloud resources
- Demonstrate optimization techniques and strategy
- Creation of YAML pipelines with Azure DevOps
- Creation and enforcement of security policies to CIS standards
- Assist regional teams in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
- Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, mockups and time necessary
- Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide
- Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and complete implementation
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Keywords Studios is an international technical service provider to the global video games industry and beyond. The company works as an external development partner for its users, enabling leading content creators and publishers to leverage Keywords' expertise and capacity across the lifecycle of interactive content. In so doing the company enables its clients who are operating in complex and fast-moving environments to remain lean and agile, and to focus on creating and monetising the most engaging experiences.
The company has over 70 studios in 26 countries across the globe. Providing integrated art production, engineering, audio services, testing, localization, and player support services in more than 50 languages and 16 game platforms.
With a strong market position, Keywords provides services to nearly all of the prominent gaming companies, including T2, EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix. Keywords had also been on an acquisition spree, with its total acquisition count sitting at 60 before it was acquired by private equity firm EQT in 2024.
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Company
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- WFH Opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Bonus Schemes
- And More (Varies by Location)
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme
- Tech & Bike Schemes
Company values
- We are passionate
- We thrive on diversity
- We are resourceful
- We celebrate uniqueness
- We value team-work
Company HQ
Carmanhall And Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Founders
Bertrand Bodson
(CEO, not founder)Current Non-Executive Director at Tesco and Wolters Kluwer. Co-Founder & former CEO of Bragster.com (Acquired by Guinness World Records). Previous Chief Digital & CMO at Sainsbury's, and Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents.
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