Job Description

Company Description
Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.


As a Kubernetes Platform Team Lead, you'll manage a distributed team within Ubisoft IT whose mission is to empower Kubernetes users at Ubisoft. Your mandate will be to simplify the provisioning and operation of clusters on Ubisoft Cloud and public cloud providers. You’ll participate in planning, managing, and directing a team that builds and operates a highly available solution with hundreds of clusters. We leverage a DevOps mentality, working on Kubernetes and open-source products, automating deployments and infrastructure management. In this role, you will be responsible for tracking the team’s progress and making sure the team is reaching goals and communicating progress with various stakeholders. You will help the team by coordinating with other teams, identifying impediments, and managing those difficulties. You will help each of your team members grow their technical skills and careers. Responsibilities

• Coordinate and plan day to day development activities;
• Ensure completion of functional and non-functional requirements;
• Work together with the development team, product managers, and architects to define priorities, build and maintain a roadmap, and execute what was planned;
• Provide coaching and mentorship to team members;
• Implement software engineering and Agile best practices;
• Coordinate efforts with other teams to help reach high-level organization goals;
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team;
• Manage a team that operates what they build and coordinating coverage within the team with the on-call schedule.

This team’s stack is Gitlab CI, Terraform, OpenStack, Kubernetes/Docker, Rancher, Quay registry, Helm, Bash, Python & Go, Prometheus & Grafana, fluentbit, Elasticsearch & Kibana We are not looking for someone who has all these skills, but someone who would like to work with this stack and is willing to learn.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in a technical leadership position;
• Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes, and experience with other container technologies, like Docker;
• Experience building and running Kubernetes operators or micro-services on Kubernetes;
• Experience internal or public clouds would be a major asset;
• Other skills with technologies mentioned above in the stack used by the team are considered a major asset;

Additional Information
Just a heads up: If you require a work permit, your eligibility may depend on your education and years of relevant work experience, as required by the government. Skills and competencies show up in different forms and can be based on different experiences, that's why we strongly encourage you to apply even though you may not have all the requirements listed above. At Ubisoft, you can come as you are. We embrace diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to fostering a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.