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OtherSide Entertainment · 1 month ago

Senior DevOps Engineer (Games, UE5 Required)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

6+ years exp

OtherSide Entertainment is an independent game studio focused on creating immersive games. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage cloud-based architectures, develop CI/CD infrastructure, and mentor developers while ensuring the reliability of their gaming systems.

GamingMusicVideo Games

Responsibilities

Manage complex cloud-based architectures using AWS services like EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, EFS, and VPC to support scalable, high-performance game development workflows

Implement test automation and ensure pipeline efficiency across platforms

Develop and enforce best practices for configuration management, infrastructure as code (IaC), and version control

Define SLAs, SLOs and SLIs, runbooks, and other monitoring and incident response patterns, including automation and notifications

Ensure OSE’s CI/CD cloud infrastructure is scalable, reliable, performant, and secure

Work with game teams to build-out, maintain, and evolve the company’s build, test, and deployment systems and pipelines (CI/CD and test automation)

Architect and optimize continuous integration and deployment pipelines for building, testing, and deploying PC/console games using Jenkins, Git, and Perforce

Design and implement custom metrics and dashboards to monitor performance, availability, and reliability of game servers, CI/CD pipelines, and backend services, ensuring operational transparency and actionable insights

Profile and optimize system resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network) for both game servers and CI/CD systems, ensuring efficient resource allocation and minimizing bottlenecks in the pipeline and production environments

Implement log aggregation and analysis systems using AWS CloudWatch Logs to centralize logs across services, making troubleshooting and incident response efficient

Beyond gathering functional requirements, work diligently to surface quality attributes and other non functional specifications

Develop and maintain concise software and technical design documents

Work well as part of a collaborative and flexible team

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in DevOps and gaming, recommending improvements to enhance our development processes

Qualification

AWS cloud servicesCI/CD pipelinesJenkinsTerraformDockerPro GitPerforceScripting abilitiesSite reliabilityProblem-solvingCommunication skills

Required

3+ years developing build systems and pipelines for PC/console games in a professional environment

6+ years as a software development professional

2+ years of AWS cloud services experience

Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in high-pressure, real-time gaming environments

Excellent written/verbal communications skills

Proficient in pipeline design, management, and optimization

Expertise in Jenkins as both a build tool and a CI/CD orchestrator

Solid experience with AWS Elastic Container Service (or Kubernetes) and Docker

Solid experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for provisioning AWS resources and infrastructure automation

Skilled in setting up server and backend monitoring solutions, runbooks, and multiplayer load tests (AWS System Manager/CloudWatch, DataDog, PagerDuty)

Experience with PagerDuty or other escalation notification systems

Have implemented and maintained site reliability runbooks, SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs

Some familiarity with TeamCity and Unreal Engine's Horde

Pro Git source control/repository admin skills

Solid Perforce admin skills

Great scripting abilities (Linux Shell, and/or Powershell)

BS in CS, Math, Physics, or equivalent experience