Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

We're looking for an infrastructure engineer to help us deploy, deliver and scale our cloud-native infrastructure to handle hundreds of thousands of daily players.

Ziax is the company behind the gaming brand CubeCraft Games, one of the top Minecraft servers in the world. In this role you will be working directly with our massive multiplayer network.

We maintain a hybrid fleet of over 100 bare metal servers and cloud instances, totalling at over 12TB of RAM and nearly 1500 cores. We have database sizes in the terabytes and consistently push gigabits of traffic to the wider internet.

This is a varied role across all parts of our technology stack and great for those wanting to improve multiple skills at a high scale

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage a cloud-native Kubernetes environment
• Use infrastructure-as-code tooling such as ArgoCD and Kustomize to track and deploy infrastructure changes
• Database administration including PostgreSQL and Elastic (also Kafka and Redis)
• Improving our observability platform to ensure faster root cause analysis of issues
• Troubleshooting network, software and hardware issues

Requirements

• Familiarity using cloud-native tooling such as Docker, Podman and Kubernetes
• Experience managing Linux-based operating systems and scripting languages such as Bash and Python
• Experience working with databases (Ideally PostgreSQL and Redis)
• Understanding of IP Networking and protocols such as DNS, DHCP and IPv6
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub)

Desired traits

• Experience using OpenShift/OKD and managing RHEL-based operating systems such as Fedora and CentOS
• Competency in writing and deploying Java based applications
• Experience working with distributed databases (e.g MongoDB replica sets, clusters; Galera/XtraDB MySQL Clusters)
• Used cloud scaling tools such as OpenStack and Kubernetes Cluster-API
• Knowledge of overlay networking, especially in distributed environments

You should know/be able to:

• The difference between a container and virtual machine
• The characteristics of sharding and replication when building scalable databases
• Broadly, how a traceroute works
• Broadly, how a container runtime works

Depending on various factors (such as level, experience and location) which will be discussed during the recruitment process the compensation is expected to be, on average, around £13-£25 an hour for this role.

How to apply

When submitting your application please include a covering letter detailing any relevant experience, reasons for your application, and anything else you feel we should know about your application, along with your CV. These should be emailed to jobs@cubecraft.net. The subject of your email should be in this format:

"Position Applying for - Name - IGN - [Part or Full Time]"

For example:
"Infrastructure Engineer - John Smith - jsmith1 - Full Time"

As a brief note we do try to reply to all reasonable applications that we receive but from time to time we don’t get the chance. Any replies aim to be sent within 2 weeks of us receiving an application.

We want to hire great people, not just those with skills in applying for jobs! If you are worried about how to put together a CV or covering letter - try your best and we'll get back in touch with some written questions necessary or alternatively we'll provide advice and guidance on how best to format an application.