Mattel, Inc. · 11 hours ago
Manager, Development Live Ops - Live Games Infrastructure Manager
El Segundo, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$112K/yr - $170K/yr
8+ years expMattel, Inc. is a leading global toy and family entertainment company, and they are seeking a Live Games Infrastructure Manager to support the live operations for their gaming business. This role involves overseeing the games live infrastructure, collaborating with game studios and internal technology teams to ensure successful planning, deployment, and execution of infrastructure to support live games operations.
Consumer GoodsManufacturingOnline GamesPC GamesToys
Responsibilities
Oversee the games live infrastructure domain, developing robust strategy and planning to support the product release cycle and operations and growth of Mattel’s live published games
Support Mattel games publishing business - Advise and guide the games publishing team in the architecture, development and deployment of mission-critical liveops infrastructure; successfully bringing together game studio expertise, third-party partnerships and internal Mattel capabilities. Collaborate with Mattel’s privacy and compliance teams to ensure our experiences are safe, secure, and compliant
Support games development studios - Be an enabling force to support game development studios with insightful architectural guidance and direct integration support of both third-party solutions and Mattel infrastructure. Collaborate internally with Mattel technology teams to leverage internal capabilities and expertise
Interface with third-party technology service providers to uphold development and live operational issues, navigating roadblocks and deploying & testing solutions
Own KPIs around operational performance and cost effectiveness. Provide accurate and timely reporting forecasts & analysis. Ensure all components are robust and scalable to support market projections, and beyond. Develop QA & test capabilities, enabling development teams to effectively debug and validate stability, scalability and security
Continuous improvement - Innovate how we think about our infrastructure and services, closely following industry advancements that enhance player experience, development efficiency and operational performance
Qualification
Required
BA/BS degree Engineering/Networking discipline preferred or equivalent work experience in SRE / SRO roles
8+ years of experience in the games industry, supporting successfully published games in the trenches with games liveops teams, enterprise IT, and game development teams
Experience in system design, product release cycle and games ops at a global scale
Experience resolving infrastructure challenges, understanding the complexities of how to build and deploy robust live services that are scalable and secure
Analytical thinking with a solution-oriented mindset, brings industry best practices and disciplined approach to resolving mission-critical problems
Prior working knowledge and expertise of industry-leading cloud computing in a games services context – including tools and services such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft PlayFab, Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Heroku, Kubernetes, CDNs, and game server fleet management
Preferred
Experience with SRE / DevOps tools such as Prometheus, Grafana; Incident Management Tools such as Opsgenie; Configuration Management Tools such as Ansible, Chef; CI/CD Tools; Containerization and Orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes; and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Cloudformation
Experience with managed cloud data platforms such as BigQuery
Prior participation in penetration testing exercises, and remediation responses
Company
Mattel, Inc.
We empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$600M2025-11-05Post Ipo Debt· $600M
2009-09-28IPO
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