DevOps Engineer Entry Level/No Experience Required

As a DevOps Engineer, you will build and maintain a stable, scalable, and secure infrastructure environment that supports various web services and internal solutions across the Nexon Group. You will collaborate closely with backend, frontend, QA, and platform teams to ensure seamless development workflows, automated deployment pipelines, and reliable production operations.

This role focuses on creating and optimizing the development, staging, and production environments for web-based platforms, internal tool systems, and enterprise-level services used by Nexon Korea and its global subsidiaries. You will be responsible for improving CI/CD pipelines, implementing Infrastructure as Code, enhancing observability, and ensuring that services follow cloud and Kubernetes best practices.

Required Experience and Skills

Background

• Backend development experience preferred
• Understanding of application architecture, APIs, and databases

Containers and Orchestration

• Kubernetes:
  Strong understanding of Pods, Services, Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets, scheduling, and cluster networking
• Amazon EKS:
  Familiarity with managed node groups, IRSA, and common EKS add-ons
• Docker:
  Ability to write optimized Dockerfiles using multi-stage builds and layer caching
  Solid grasp of containerization best practices

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform:
  Understanding of resources, modules, state management, and relationships between infrastructure components

CI/CD

• GitLab CI:
  Ability to build and maintain pipelines, with knowledge of stages, jobs, artifacts, and caching

Scripting

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Shell, Bash, or Go
• Ability to automate repetitive tasks effectively

Security

• AWS IAM:
  Understanding of policies, roles, permissions, and least-privilege principles
• EKS OIDC:
  Familiarity with service account authentication
• Knowledge of container security best practices

AWS Cloud Services

• Core Services: S3, EC2, ECR
• Application Services: SQS, CloudFront
• Networking: Basic knowledge of VPC, security groups, and subnets

Preferred Skills

• Experience with monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
• Understanding of logging and tracing concepts
• Knowledge of database operations including backup and restore
• Experience with additional AWS services such as RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda
• Knowledge of core Java or game development is a plus

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Proactive in learning new technologies
• Clear and effective communicator, especially during troubleshooting
• Good English reading comprehension

• Chance to work on global projects with multicultural teams, world-class games.
• Attractive salary and benefits.
• Professional work environment.
• Open culture where every employee is valued, treated fairly. and trusted.
• 13th salary every year at least 1-month salary.
• From 12 days Annual Leave
• Government social, health, and unemployment insurance.
• Lunch meals in office
• Annual salary review based on employee performance and company success
• Annual Company Trip, Year End Party
• Events during Birthday, Full Moon Festival, other important holidays