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Bethesda Game Studios · 7 hours ago

Senior DevOps Programmer

Rockville, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$105K/yr - $225K/yr

5+ years exp

Bethesda Game Studios is the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Programmer to help architect and maintain cloud-based infrastructure for their games while providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior team members.

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Responsibilities

Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure to support Bethesda Game Studios games. Including both services for the games and services to support development of the games

Provide technical leadership within the group

Code review and mentor more junior team members

Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives

Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools

Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary

Qualification

Cloud Infrastructure ArchitectureMulti-cloud ExperienceInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AI/ML Platform ServicesDevOpsAutomationCloud Configuration ManagementProgramming ExperienceSecurity Best PracticesNetworking ConceptsData ManagementSystem AdministrationSoft Skills

Required

You have previous experience building and architecting distributed applications in a multi-cloud (preferably AWS and Azure) enterprise environment using IaC and modern containerization systems

You have 5+ years of engineering experience deploying virtual machines, containers, applications, and dependent infrastructure to AWS or Azure

You've been responsible for coding and/or reviewing the code for most of the Skills listed below (see 'What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.)

You have significant programming experience beyond just scripting

You are an expert at cloud configuration management solutions

You have previous on call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently

You have previous experience in building and maintaining AI/ML platform services in the cloud

You possess a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

You are certified in Basic Security Principles in at least one cloud platform

You are certified in Cloud Account Administration in at least one cloud platform

Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Ability to develop towards Azure using a multi-cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback to AWS

Ability to develop towards hybrid datacenter and cloud platforms

Expertise in strengths and weakness of solutions offered by each cloud provider

Azure based AI services experience but other major cloud equivalents acceptable

Training configuration and job orchestration

Knowledge of distributed training frameworks

Need to understand AI/ML pipelines from the operational perspective

Familiarity with RAG architectures (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

Proficiency in using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager for automating cloud infrastructure

Ability to build and maintain multi-cloud and data center hybrid IaC solutions for complex enterprise environments

Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements for multi-cloud environments

Knowledge of GDPR in relation to multi-cloud/hybrid architectures

Knowledge of key management, access controls, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City

Expertise branch management

Ability to automate deployments and manage cloud environments efficiently

Expertise in Cloud Imaging and Configuration tools like Salt, Packer, Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet

Knowledge of network concepts and topologies such as VNET/VPCs, interconnect vs. ExpressRoute, DirectConnect, MegaPort, and load balancers

Understanding of hybrid cloud networking and secure data flows between different cloud environments

Skills in managing data repositories and movement across cloud platforms, such as Synapse, Redshift, and Kafka

Database Administration basics for different database types (MySQL and derivatives and Mongo and derivatives)

Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux (mostly this) and Windows related issues

Ability to diagnose health of fleet of hosts or systems

Proficiency with account and authorization management

Familiarity with storage management and file systems

Experience with open-source frameworks, operating systems, and containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, AKS, and Kubernetes

Expertise in Python, Bash, and/or Powershell

More than just scripting knowledge that includes algorithmic and OO principles, asynchronous programming and language best practices, frameworks, and fundamentals

Proficiency with cloud-based monitoring, alerting, and logging systems such as Splunk, Graphite, CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, Data Dog

Knowledge of best practices and costs impact of using these tools