VP Infrastructure

February 17, 2023 - London, England, United Kingdom | Tech

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Join the exciting world of competitive gaming as the VP of Infrastructure for FACEIT (part of EFG), the leading gaming platform with over 25 million users and 30 million matches played every month! As a seasoned Director or VP with commercial experience in leading a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure function, you will play a critical role in planning, designing, building, and growing our infrastructure capabilities for high scale and efficiency. You’ll be responsible for setting up and defining our engineering culture, implementing cloud architecture in a DevOps/Agile methodology, and overseeing contemporary cloud design patterns across all platforms.

In addition, you’ll lead a team of highly skilled engineers and managers and nurture them to achieve new heights and bring our platform to the next level. You’ll demonstrate strategic thinking, identify key business issues and opportunities, and create business strategies to drive results across internal teams and external partners. You’ll also have a clear understanding of general principles of finance, budget, facility management and controls, ITIL, project management, systems development lifecycle, and IT security.

If you’re passionate about gaming and want to be at the forefront of an industry-leading platform, this is the role for you. Report directly to our CTO and help us provide gamers the best experience possible by ensuring we’re always on top of our tech and delivering industry-leading features to our awesome platform!

Requirements:

  • Current commercial experience in leading a Devops, SRE or Infrastructure function, within a fast paced, growing environment as a Director or VP.
  • Previous working experience in building scalable and high traffic systems, and leading IT infrastructure and operations in a critical high-volume environment.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed software architectures and different methodologies.
  • In-depth knowledge of infrastructure as applied both in high volume business processing environments and in consumer-oriented businesses.
  • Experience in managing and implementing cloud architecture in a DevOps/Agile methodology.
  • Thorough awareness of contemporary cloud design patterns with the ability to oversee at an enterprise level with consistency across all platforms. Knowledge of the difference between the GCP, and AWS clouds infrastructures and features.
  • The ability to demonstrate strategic thinking, identifying key business issues and opportunities, creating business strategies and driving results across internal teams and/or external partners.
  • Clear understanding of general principles of finance, budget, infrastructure management and controls, ITIL, project management, systems development lifecycle, and IT Security should come as second nature to you

Benefits:

  • Flexible working environment;
  • Work with the best tech available;
  • Company book club, and gaming nights;
  • Company (virtual) drinks session every Friday;
  • Quarterly team outings;
  • Your professional growth is important to us. We provide ongoing training opportunities;
  • Best of all Free Premium FACEIT user account.

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