Staff Platforms engineer

at  2K

WHO WE ARE

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.
Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.
At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.
2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

WHAT WE NEED:

We are looking for an expert engineer who is passionate about building multi-datacenter infrastructure and services. Robust systems and problem-solving skills are required as we develop solutions for game studios and support data centers around the world alongside a group of outstanding engineers. In this role, you will collaborate with network engineers, systems architects, and development staff to support our gamers and the needs of the business.

WHAT WE DO

• Build and operate highly resilient systems in a multi-datacenter and cloud global environment serving game and consumer services
• Develop tools for the management and automation of the systems and service infrastructure
• Define and implement standards that will impact systems, services, and multiple cloud environments
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues from both internal and external customers and drive improvements to prevent them from recurring
• Participate in Platforms on-call rotation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of demonstrated influence across one or more teams for large scale projects that drive impact and improvement across the organization
• 6+ years of experience in an Platforms or System engineer role for online services in a multi-region, multi-cloud environment with specific experience in reliability and resiliency
• 4+ years of developing tools for automation of processes or augmenting off the shelf tool functionality
• 2+ years of AWS and/or GCP cloud experience running highly elastic mission critical workloads
• 6+ years system engineering and architecture experience
• 3+ years of experience using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or others
• Extensive knowledge of storage service, virtualization, Windows server os and Linux
• Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting
• Serve as a mentor to junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the organization.

Please refer the Job description for details