DevOps Engineer - Old School RuneScape

Are you interested in joining a world-renowned online games company? Do you want to work on a unique and large scale project and face some of the most complex and interesting challenges in online gaming?

You will be working on the operation and on-going enhancement of the RuneScape & Old School RuneScape game engine and associated systems, developing operational processes, maintaining and enhancing existing game systems and services, ensuring we continue to effectively support the live service and provide value to our players/customers.

We're in the early stages of a major product update on Old School RuneScape, so this is an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer with ambition and initiative to modernise our infrastructure and operations estate to ensure a global, scalable presence for our players.

What you'll be doing:

• Use IAC (terraform) to build and maintain infrastructure globally at scale
• Leverage AWS best practice to build highly available and fault tolerant systems for our players
• Support modernisation of legacy systems, migrating away from data centers to run on AWS
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues and work with engineering teams to detect and prevent future issues
• Build, automate and support development and production environments, both on-premises and cloud

What we're looking for:

• Experience working with (and willingness to work with) large-scale legacy systems
• Proven AWS experience, running production system
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration
• Some experience with scripting in bash, python or using Go for automation in the cloud

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.
If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.