Lead Online Programmer – AAA Games – Hybrid/Onsite Istanbul, Turkey

Project: AAA Multiplayer Game

OPMs client is a AAA developer, with studios in three beautiful cities who are looking for a talented Lead Online Programmer to join their team developing a new unique unannounced multiplayer project.

The successful candidates will help consolidate their cloud infrastructure as well their award-winning in-house engine’s online capabilities.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer in scalable production systems
• Proficient with at least one the major cloud vendors (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Able to architect solutions that may live in several clouds
• Experience with containerization (docker, k8 etc) and orchestration (puppet, ansible, saltstack etc)
• Experienced in navigating and integrating new technologies into large existing codebases
• Experience with creating custom tools with C# or .NET
• Strong English language skills
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, a related education, or relevant experience for the job such as several years leading teams responsible for online services or cloud infrastructures for games
• Deeply passionate about video games and games development

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be responsible for the development of a scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure to run online services that you and the team will co-create with the different game projects
• Together with your team, will be responsible to create, run and monitor the game servers and back-end infrastructure
• Choose fitting cloud technologies for the online and data services
• Deploy, maintain, and drive the design of the cloud infrastructure, which should be scalable and fitting to several games
• Develop and maintain the online game technology and tools as well as game specific code, on server and on client side
• Champion online security practices
• Extend the technology of the in-house engine with online capabilities.
• Designing and implementing online game features that interact with the engine, that will be for any of the games.
• At the same time, as a lead, together with Directors, you will participate on the online game vision and break it into specific goals
• Provide candid and compassionate feedback in bi-weekly 1:1s with every team member
• Coach and mentor people in the team and the company on regards to Online, Cloud, security, and related best practices

DESIRED SKILLS (good to have):

• Professional experience in the games industry
• Good knowledge of C++
• Console experience
• Cross-site and cross-team working experience.
• Master/PhD degree in Computer Science or associated fields.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 426!

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