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Only applicants living in British Columbia will be considered, with preference given to Victoria, BC.\nOur Values\nDriven by PLAYER OBSESSION, we look to craft unparalleled gaming experiences.\nOWNERSHIP is our compass, propelling us to deliver exceptional results.\nWith a spirit of RESOURCEFULNESS, we fearlessly tackle challenges and defy limitations.\nDriven by the ethos of CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, we foster a culture of perpetual learning and growth.\nAbout Kano\nKano is an independent game studio that has been building and running live games for over 18 years. Our games have long-running player communities, mature economies, live events, web and mobile platforms, and real business complexity behind them.\nWe're a small, remote-first team that is all-in on AI. We use it across the company, from engineering to finance to marketing. People here can make a visible impact quickly, so we look for people who take ownership, learn fast, and like replacing \"the way it's always been done.\"\nAbout the Role\nYou'll use AI tools and automation to run and modernize Kano's systems: the cloud infrastructure behind our live games, and the IT the rest of the company relies on. You'll join our Operations team, which looks after every Kano game, our internal systems and the projects coming next, and help keep all of it reliable, secure and cost-effective.\nKeeping our games running comes first. Our infrastructure has grown over 18 years and runs on a mix of EC2, ECS containers and serverless. You'll bring fresh eyes to making it simpler, safer and less manual, and you'll have real room to make those changes.\nThe Right Person…\nUses AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor or ChatGPT for real technical work, can show something they've automated or improved, and tests and validates the results.\nWants to build AI-assisted tools that take repetitive work off the team's plate, with human review where it matters.\nHas solid fundamentals and a hands-on approach: verifies their work, troubleshoots methodically and knows when to ask for help.\nWould rather fix the root cause than patch the same problem twice.\nWhat You'll Do\nAI & Automation\nBuild AI-assisted workflows for operations, such as alert triage, incident summaries, first-draft root-cause analyses and runbook upkeep.\nUse AI coding agents to write and refactor infrastructure code and scripts, with testing and review before anything reaches production.\nSet up access controls for our internal AI agents and tools: least-privilege credentials, audit logging and approvals for production changes.\nTrial new tools and services, and recommend what to adopt and what to retire.\nInfrastructure & Cloud\nRun and improve the Linux servers and AWS infrastructure behind our live games (EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, Systems Manager), managed with Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.\nCarry out upgrades, patching and migrations onto containers or managed services, keeping disruption to players to a minimum.\nSupport our Docker and ECS services and the pipelines that ship them (GitLab CI, AWS CodeDeploy, Fastlane).\nReliability & Data\nMaintain monitoring, alerting and logging (CloudWatch, InfluxDB, Grafana, Graylog) to catch problems before players notice.\nLook after our MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and Memcached services: backups, regular restore tests, upgrades and routine issues, working through complex replication or performance problems with the team.\nAfter onboarding, join the on-call rotation. You'll start with triage and escalation alongside experienced teammates, take on more as you get comfortable, and contribute to incident reviews so issues don't recur.\nCompany IT & Security\nSupport the IT behind a remote team: staff accounts and access, VPN and internal network services, onboarding and offboarding, and help for non-technical teammates. Automate the requests that keep coming back.\nMaintain least-privilege access and MFA, apply security patches, review logs and support compliance requirements.\nFind AWS cost savings and implement them, such as right-sizing and removing unused resources.\nWrites clear documentation and explains technical issues in plain language.\nExperience\nRequired\n3+ years running production infrastructure in systems administration, IT operations, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering.\nLinux administration and a methodical approach to troubleshooting.\nAWS fundamentals: EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC networking, IAM, S3 and CloudWatch.\nNetworking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs and load balancing.\nInfrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and scripting in Bash, Python or Ruby.\nDocker, and running containerized services in production.\nRunning relational and/or NoSQL databases in production, including backups, restores and upgrades.\nGood operational judgment: testing changes, following review processes and knowing when to escalate.\nRegular, hands-on use of AI tools for technical work, and the judgment to check what they produce.\nNice to Have\nBuilding AI agents, LLM-powered tools, or automations using APIs, MCP or similar.\nMongoDB, Redis or Memcached at scale.\nChef, Ansible, GitLab CI, AWS CodeDeploy or Fastlane.\nInfluxDB, Grafana or Graylog.\nAWS cost optimization, including Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.\nSupporting staff IT for a remote team.\nExperience in games or other always-on consumer services.\nSalary\n$85,000 - $100,00 CAD\nThe listed range reflects potential earnings for this role. Actual pay depends on experience and skills, and most hires start near the midpoint.\nKano is a remote-first workplace with an in-person attendance requirement 2-6 times a year.\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive wages determined by market research \nUncapped profit share program\nHealth, dental and vision benefits \n3 weeks vacation to start\nPaid holiday shutdown in December\n12 paid Care Days per year\nYearly Continuous Improvement allowance \nA results-driven company with a compassionate culture\nOpportunity to work on game projects that are enjoyed by millions of players worldwide!\nAbility to make a difference. Have an idea? Talk directly with leadership about it instead of running through layers of bureaucracy\nAbout Kano\nSince inception, Kano has released twelve gaming titles (seven of which are live serviced today), with over 35 million downloads and close to $100M in sales.\nBootstrapped in 2008, and achieving profitability in 2009, Kano continues to grow its team, game portfolio and player base as an independent gaming studio, with hit games like Mob Wars, Idle Distiller and Monster Country. \nCanadian owned and full-remote, we believe in giving small teams of talented people challenging problems and getting out of their way. That’s why we look for the best and brightest to join our team; people who have talent, vision, and commitment.\nCheck out this article If you'd like to get some insight into our hiring process, our employee manual to understand how and why we do things the way we do, and this fun little video for an intro to the team! \nBetter Business Bureau Accredited Business 15 year Milestone\n2026 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2025 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2024 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2023 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2022 Best Workplace™ for Mental Wellness\n2022 Best Workplace™ in Canada - Less than 50 employees\n2022 Best Workplace™ in British Columbia\n2021 Best Workplace™ in British Columbia\n2020 Best Workplaces™ in Canada - Less than 100 employees\n2020 Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion\n2020 Best Workplaces™ for Mental Wellness\n 2020 Best Workplaces™ in British Columbia\n2019 Great Place to Work - British Columbia\n2019 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Finalist\n2018 VIATEC Company of the Year (11-49 Employees) - 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