AVAILABLE POSITIONS Cloud Engineer, Central Tech

Position Overview

• The Cloud Engineer will be a member of Zynga’s Infrastructure vertical, in a team responsible for maintaining Zynga’s Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS products used across Zynga Studios.
• We specialize in propagating standard methodologies across all backend engineering teams.
• Our team collaborates closely with every major mobile studio at Zynga!

Main Responsibilities

We prototype and test new in-house & vendor-supplied tools, managed-services, deployment and application frameworks. Consult on their relative feature sets, performance and applicability to various product teams.

Cloud Engineering members build, document, maintain, and support tools that can be used across the company for infrastructure-related tasks and tech modernization.

We partner with other business units to convert manual business workflows and requirements into application code.

Our team works with studio partners to upgrade their code for updated OS and application stacks.

The entire team participates in crafting playbooks and helping other studios during on-call.

We administer roles, policies and network resources in a multi-account/cloud environment. Tier one support for related change requests.

We assist other teams in vetting application development standard methodologies and security guidelines.

Desired Skills and Experience

• We are looking for fresh perspectives and eager candidates to grow within our team. A B.Sc/C.Sc, 1-2 years in a professional Developer / Operations / Administration role or equivalent experience would be an excellent fit.
• Experience working on Linux VMs and Containers hosted in Cloud providers is a plus!
• Have experience coding infrastructure orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, Terraform, and Cloudformation? We love that.
• Desired experience automating processes via command line tools like AWS CLI to replace GUI operations.
• Desired experience working in small teams / startup environments.
• Candidates practiced in software development processes are highly valued.
• Must have experience working within a commercial cloud environment such as AWS or relevant Cloud Certifications.
• Must have practical experience with Enterprise Linux environments, development, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, debugging, and orchestration patterns.
• Must have strong English written and verbal skills. You are encouraged to engage with customers over video conferencing, ticketing systems, and chat. 
• You thrive writing clear procedural instructions (Runbooks), conceptual overviews (Architecture), and implementation guides. 
• You provide phenomenal customer service and can communicate appropriately with different roles in a company (team members, vs customer engineers and customer producers, etc.).

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Create next-gen games that will be played and loved by millions of players around the world
• Work in a collaborative team that invests in your development and growth on-the-job
• Competitive salary, bonus plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 20 days annual leave + company holidays
• Extended medical coverage that includes OPD, dental, vision and telehealth
• Group Life, Disability and Critical Illness insurance
• Equitable Childcare facilities for all employees
• Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Family planning and nurturing support programs
•  Comprehensive leave options and flexible working hours to ensure work life balance.
• Keep your health on track with our wellbeing programs covering fitness expenses and complimentary meals served around the clock
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Around the year employee events and casual dress every single day
• A diverse team of friendly, fun and supportive co-workers to work with and, impact millions of daily players
• Re-engage with your special interest by being a part of our employee resource groups that connect Zyngites through inclusivity, culture, lifestyle and fun

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and creative workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome job-seekers, players, employees, and partners from all backgrounds to join us!