ENGINEERING MANAGER - CLOUD SERVICE ENABLEMENT | SHARED TECH

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Technology & Development Job Description.
At King millions of players connect to our games every day.
They rely on our infrastructure to be up days a year to improve their experience with our games.
We are building up a new team in Cloud Engineering at King focused at supporting various teams both inside and outside our Shared Tech organization with levering platforms and infrastructure from the public cloud and in particular GCP.
Initial focus will be in supporting the vital migration of the game and game- supporting applications and workloads to GCP.
Going forward we want to set the standard on how we support the company to thrive in the Cloud.
This team will enable developers at King to innovate with speed and confidence by supporting, architecting, and catalyzing Cloud infrastructure for them.
Together with our Observability and Compute platform teams, we take away the complexity and friction for our users and shape our offerings and support to empower King developers to bring to bear the full power of Cloud technologies without having to worry about its complexities.
YOUR ROLE WITHIN OUR KINGDOM As an Engineering Manager, you will encourage and empower the talents in your team, so they can excel in building phenomenal software and systems, whilst supporting individual career growth through specific goal setting and continuous feedback.
You will support the team with recruitment, mentoring, coaching, facilitation and performance management and more.
Encourage, engage, and guide the team through this exciting transformation that requires extensive collaboration, outstanding engineering and most importantly a fun, open and relaxed working environment.
You will also be accountable for the team commitments to deliveries and ensure the team has good ways of working.
Facilitate and enable team discussions and decisions of both technical and non- technical nature.
You will also be coordinating projects, engaging with stakeholders in collaboration with the product manager.
You have a humble and open approach to leadership, with a strong belief in DE&I, servant leadership, Agile practices and a keen interest in developing people plus a side curiosity about gaming and techy stuff! WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT OUR CULTURE AND BELIEVE IN.
- An inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace - Continuous improvement of everything we do - Automation and coding as much as possible - Collaboration and blame free problem solving - Asking for help and sharing ideas openly SKILLS TO CREATE THRILLS - Experience of Cloud computing support, enablement, and architecture - Expert leader with a passion for developing others - Experience in agile methodologies and running long- term projects - Phenomenal communication, mentor and feedback skills - Technical background in software engineering or site reliability engineering with bonus points for MySQL, Kafka and event stream processing scenarios.
About King At King, we're Making the World Playful.
Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it.
With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20- year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level- up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users.
But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games.
As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self.
We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together.
It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.
Making the World Playful Making the World Playful is our mission - it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games.
Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun? Kingsters are seriously playful.
creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily.
But our players aren't the only ones that can level- up.
We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.
So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.
Applications need to be in English.
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