Senior DevOps Specialist, Epic Games
$207.1-290k
Interactive entertainment company
Job no longer available
Interactive entertainment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$207.1-290k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create fun games we want to play and building the art and tools we need to bring those games to life.
Role
Who you are
- Solid skills with and experience using terraform, AWS, Linux Administration and git
- Experience designing and deploying cloud systems, you can quickly conceptualize high-level cloud infrastructure designs from given requirements and deliver with minimal oversight
- An understanding of the realities of software development and the needs of software engineers
- An expert in writing code at a level suitable for infrastructure automation purposes, ideally in bash and/or python
- Good working knowledge and recent experience using AWS architecture - EC2, IAM, S3, RDS etc
- Experience with containerisation,(with a good grasp of the fundamentals) and configuring, maintaining (and potentially extending) CI/CD systems
- Experience leveraging observability systems to help extract a signal from noise and have an opinion on best practices for monitoring, logging and tracing
- Ability to reason on different infrastructure design approaches with an understanding of trade-offs and non-functional attributes - performance / scalability / reliability / security / maintainability
- Excellent written and spoken English with great interpersonal skills
- Ability to mentor others on infrastructure programming best practices
- Bonus points for experience in managing Windows Server fleets in the Cloud
What the job involves
- As part of a small globally distributed team of infrastructure programmers, you’ll support existing UCS-www.unrealengine.com services (such as Unreal Editor for Fortnite, RealityScan, MetaHuman Creator, Twinmotion and Unreal Revision Control) and design/deploy new cloud systems which will help shape the future of collaborative content creation
- Design, build and maintain cloud architectures which host some of Epic’s most exciting projects at global scale
- Provide cloud expertise to backend programmers to help create cloud-native services together
- Write infrastructure automation scripts which integrate with Unreal Engine
- Create, troubleshoot and write runbooks for infrastructure alerts
- Be given opportunities to contribute to application source code
- Keep our CI/CD systems humming along
- Participate in a light-weight on-call rotation, alongside the entire UCS cloud team
Our take
Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic's Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR and the Web. And its recent announcement - Unreal Engine 5.7 - is set to lay the technical foundations for countless future releases.
Epic Games' model focuses on two key areas: creating games and offering its game engine technology to other developers. Doing this means that Epic's brand stretches beyond their own direct creations. The company has been able to put its name to some of the most iconic games of the last 20 years. Its most recent success is undoubtedly the creation of Fortnite, which has gained hundreds of millions of users since its launch in 2017.
Long-established as one of the leaders in its field, these are undoubtedly exciting times for Epic Games. The release of next-generation consoles like the PS5 has enabled the company to push the limits of its software, meaning it'll lead the charge in the creation of next-gen games. 2024 also saw an unprecedented investment in Epic Games by Disney, amounting to $1.5B. This will enable Disney to promote iconic characters through the Fortnite game. With the number of people enjoying video games continuing to grow, there is no sign of Epic Games slowing down any time soon.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2024
$1.5bn
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$2bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $8.6bn
Company HQ
Cary, NC
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