Lead DevOps Engineer

Join the award-wining team that created God of War

You’re into technology – learning it, building it, teaching it. You’re someone who thrives on infrastructure and mentoring people, making things happen for the team, making their work lives more efficient and easier, which allows them to perform at their peak.

You’re talented, really talented, and motivated, with tons of initiative. You get things done – and we leave you alone to do them. Sound interesting? Give us a shout!

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage team-wide efforts on our existing pipelines, automation workflows, and systems
• Assist in planning, configuring, and deploying various open source and proprietary services on Linux and Windows such as: Perforce, Nginx, Postgres, Traefik, Datadog, Aspera, Sentry, as well as new services to support the development team
• Provide support for build releases and patching, build deployment tool suite, code integration utilities, pre-commit testing utilities, and packaging pipeline
• Identify and optimize bottlenecks/inefficiencies in our CI/CD build automation systems
• Upgrade, evolve, and maintain existing infrastructure, including Jenkins server configurations and scripts and build scripts
• Partner closely with our IT team to ensure a broad understanding of approaches and solutions
• Interface and assist in supporting the studio; investigate complex problems and provide direct solutions
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional scripts and code
• Implement and maintain effective reporting systems to facilitate team needs

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of professional experience and at least three years of experience in a leadership type role
• Strong Windows and Linux System Administration skills
• Experience with AWS such as RDS, ECS/Fargate, S3/Cloudfront, as well as on premises deployments
• Proficient in a majority of the following: Git, REST API’s, Docker (particularly with Windows Containers), Terraform, Qt, PowerShell, Puppet, GitLab, automated testing structures and processes, build and/or content processing pipelines
• Excellent problem-solving skills, enthusiasm, and initiative
• Personable: gets along well with everyone; has “I can help” attitude
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Commitment to code quality, documentation, and sound testing procedures

Preferred Experience

• Industry experience working or shipping AAA titles
• Basic familiarity with C++
• Advanced knowledge of Jenkins, Perforce, and Python Experience developing Windows GUI applications using C# or Python

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