DevOps Advocate at Metacore (Helsinki)

We are a mobile game company, based in both Helsinki and Berlin, creating world-class entertainment by building a portfolio of hit games. Since our launch in 2020, our first chart-topping game Merge Mansion has been entertaining over 55 million players worldwide, and we have grown into a team of over 200.

Our mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, with our games, and also through our creative marketing, community, and beyond – while having fun with it.

We’re ordinary people crafting extraordinary games with passion and ambition, united by our culture of trust, psychological safety and wellbeing.

Overview

We believe that a strong DevOps culture drives innovation and efficiency across our teams. We’re looking for a passionate DevOps Advocate to help bridge the gap between development and operations by promoting best practices in DevOps, reliability, and cloud-native operations.

In this new role, you’ll be key in fostering a DevOps culture across teams, helping them adopt industry-leading practices and improve daily workflows through hands-on participation. Collaborating closely with development and infrastructure teams, you’ll share insights, provide mentorship, and encourage a culture of continuous improvement. Since this is a new role, we’re looking for someone who’s excited to help shape it as we go.

Responsibilities

1. Championing DevOps practices by promoting methodologies, tools, automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code within the organization.
2. Encouraging an SRE mindset to build resilient, scalable, and reliable systems from the ground up.
3. Working closely with development and operations teams to understand their workflows and challenges, providing mentorship, and promoting a shift-left mentality for enhanced quality and efficiency throughout the development lifecycle.
4. Collaborating with product and engineering teams to provide feedback, helping to shape the development of new features and improvements.
5. Driving awareness and adoption of tools and platforms that support our DevOps strategy, including CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration tools, monitoring solutions, and more.

Requirements

1. Proven experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or similar role with hands-on experience in automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms and related tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform).
2. Hands-on experience with commonly used automation scripting languages (Bash, Python).
3. Strong understanding of cloud-native and distributed systems architecture, with the ability to guide development teams in making informed choices that enhance scalability, reliability, and performance.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.
5. Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, influence without authority, and build strong relationships.
6. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive attitude toward identifying opportunities for improvement.

In addition to these, it would be nice but not mandatory for you to have some of these as well:

1. Experience in .NET, golang or rust.
2. Active participation in the DevOps or cloud-native community.
3. Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or similar.

What We Offer

1. Workplace where we aim high, without taking ourselves too seriously.
2. Autonomy and accountability with support to foster professional development.
3. Great opportunities to grow with the company.
4. Work-life balance and strong emphasis on wellbeing.
5. Approachable leaders with low ego.
6. Flexible hybrid workplace where people enjoy working at the office.

Basics

1. Location: Helsinki, Finland.
2. Relocation: Relocating to Finland expected, full support provided.
3. Work model: Mix of office and remote work.