About the Role
The DevOps Engineer owns the infrastructure that VistralNova's games, backend services, and digital asset platforms run on. This role covers deployment pipelines, environment management, monitoring, cost, and the day-to-day reliability of production systems. Our products are live and player-facing, which means deploys have to be routine rather than eventful, failures have to be visible before users report them, and the path from a merged branch to running code has to be something the whole team can use without asking for help. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: you will decide how we build, ship, observe, and recover.
What You'll Do
- Own build and deployment pipelines from commit through to production release.
- Manage cloud and hosting infrastructure, including environments, secrets, and access control.
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting so problems surface before players report them.
- Improve reliability, deployment safety, and rollback paths for live services.
- Track and control infrastructure cost as traffic and services grow.
- Support engineers with tooling, local environments, and release processes.
- Lead incident response and write the follow-ups that stop repeats.
What We Look For
- Practical experience running production infrastructure for live, user-facing systems.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with cloud platforms, networking fundamentals, and Linux administration.
- Solid grasp of production security: secret management, least privilege, and access boundaries.
- Ability to build observability that answers real questions rather than filling dashboards.
- Calm, methodical debugging when a live system is misbehaving.
- Clear written communication — most of what you build, other engineers have to use.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting game servers, real-time services, or latency-sensitive workloads.
- Familiarity with node infrastructure, RPC providers, or on-chain indexing services.
- Experience with database operations, backups, and migration safety on live systems.
- Cost optimisation experience on a small team where the bill is somebody's actual problem.
About VistralNova
VistralNova is a technology company building developer tools, game systems, AI-powered experiences, and digital infrastructure for modern interactive products. Our work brings together software engineering, game design, artificial intelligence, and asset-ready infrastructure to help teams create products that are practical, scalable, and easier to trust.
We are evolving toward a flexible technical foundation aligned with Polkadot and PVM-based architecture. Our team values clean architecture, practical execution, strong engineering standards, and long-term product quality.
