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What begins as casual farming develops into a rich midcore experience combining travel, story-driven quests, battles, mini-games and competitive events.\nLaunched in 2016, Taonga is now a mature live product with complex infrastructure supporting regular updates and future growth.\nAbout the role\nOur engineers work across the entire technology stack, from service development to infrastructure management. We are looking for an experienced Platform & Reliability Engineer with a deep architectural understanding of Kubernetes, beyond simply running helm install.\nYou will design infrastructure independently, select hardware, build bare-metal clusters from scratch and take end-to-end ownership of their reliability. 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We achieve exceptional results through rigorous planning and disciplined execution, which allows us to deliver outstanding quality while protecting our time of leisure and rest.\nGaming is an inherent part of our lives. With a wide range of tastes across genres, we keep fresh the understanding of what it's like to have fun in a game. Together we apply this knowledge to create experiences full of joy and wonder for our players.\nWhere you'll be working at\nWe work on-site in a modern business building in Limassol. We like a lot of space and a lot of air, and we built our office to create a calm and comfortable environment, conductive to the state of flow.\nVolka benefits\nRelocation Support: Moving countries is stressful. We handle the tickets, accounts and permits for you and your family. 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