Helsinki

DevOps Advocate

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.

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A metacorean walking down the stairs from work

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.

More about Metacore crafts: https://metacoregames.com/our-crafts

Responsibilities

Championing DevOps practices by promoting methodologies, tools, automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code within the organization
Encouraging an SRE mindset to build resilient, scalable, and reliable systems from the ground up
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
Collaborating with product and engineering teams to provide feedback, helping to shape the development of new features and improvements
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

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)
Hands-on experience with commonly used automation scripting languages (Bash, Python)
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
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience
Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, influence without authority, and build strong relationships
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:

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

What We Offer

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

Basics

Location: Helsinki, Finland
Relocation: Relocating to Finland expected, full support provided
Work model: Mix of office and remote work
Working language: English

Sounds about right? Then let’s talk!

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Our culture

Our culture is based on trust, psychological safety and wellbeing. At Metacore, autonomy and accountability go firmly hand in hand, and we cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace where you can be yourself.

We are inclusive, collaborative, and humble and think “we” before “me”. We enable focus through transparency and ownership. We aim high, and aspire to be nothing less than the best game company in the world to work for.

To create even better games, communities and entertainment, we welcome talent with diverse experiences, who are passionate about their roles and bold in their ambition.

We have collectively defined our culture and values, and we uphold them together, every day.

Our equal opportunity statement

To entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, we need diverse teams that understand our diverse audiences. The key to unleash our creativity is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture of trust where Metacoreans from all walks of life can be themselves. We celebrate our differences and believe they are the strength that drives us forward.

We are committed to offering equal opportunities for all, regardless of background, age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family status, education, socioeconomic status or any other characteristic. We build and maintain a workplace and industry free of harassment and discrimination.

We also aspire to have DE&I as a fundamental part of our game design process to enable us to create even better and more inclusive games, communities and entertainment.
If you require any support or have specific needs during the application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!

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DevOps Advocate

Our culture

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