At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build automation tools for live-service games infrastructure.
- Company: Join Big Viking Games, a leading Canadian gaming company.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with a focus on innovation and creativity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on gaming infrastructure and player experiences.
- Qualifications: Experience in cloud operations, automation, and self-direction.
The predicted salary is between 140000 - 180000 $ per year.
Toronto, ON Hybrid, 3 days per week in office Full-time
Department: Engineering
Reports to: Engineering Leadership
Compensation range: CAD $140,000 to $180,000
About Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities. Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies. Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime.
We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger infrastructure, better automation, practical AI adoption, improved reliability, stronger security practices, and scalable systems that help our games and teams perform at a higher level.
About the Role
Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer, Agentic Automation & Live Games to modernize the infrastructure behind our live-service games and help reinvent how those systems are operated. This is a hands-on senior infrastructure role for someone fluent in modern cloud operations: AWS, containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, production reliability, incident response, security, and automation.
We are looking for someone who can build automation that does real work, not just scripts that run or dashboards that summarize. The right person has started using agentic coding tools, tool-calling systems, API integrations, workflow automation, or MCP-style tooling to safely diagnose, provision, remediate, monitor, or maintain infrastructure.
Our games run on mature systems with real players, real revenue, real constraints, and real consequences. There is meaningful room to automate how they are operated, but the work must be done with discipline. Uptime, data integrity, least-privilege access, rollback paths, auditability, and production safety matter.
The defining trait for this role is self-direction. Given a backlog, you improve how the work gets done. Left to your own judgment, you find repetitive operational work nobody has flagged, decide what is worth automating, and build it safely.
This is a hybrid role based in Toronto, with an expectation of working in office three days per week. Live-service games require operational awareness outside regular business hours, including periodic on-call and incident response availability.
What You'll Do
- Build Agentic Automation for Infrastructure Work
- Design, build, and operate agentic tooling that performs real DevOps work
Senior DevOps Engineer in Toronto employer: Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture in the heart of Toronto. With a strong focus on employee growth, we offer opportunities for professional development and encourage creative input in shaping our products. Our hybrid work model provides flexibility while being part of a passionate team dedicated to delivering engaging gaming experiences.
