Advanced DevOps Games Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients, backend services, and tools.
• Automate build, deployment, and environment-management processes across development, staging, and production.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions for scalable and repeatable environment management.
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues affecting build stability, uptime, and environment health.
• Collaborate with gameplay, backend, and tools engineers to eliminate workflow bottlenecks within Unreal Engine.
• Manage version-control integrations and branch strategies for stable release cycles.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions for proactive service reliability.
• Improve deployment practices through test automation, rollback strategies, and release governance.
• Define and track engineering KPIs such as build success rate, environment uptime, and mean time to recovery.
• Promote DevOps practices, automated workflows, testing culture, and continuous improvement across the studio.
• Mentor team members and advocate for reliable automation and development processes.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development or DevOps engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• 3+ years of programming experience with C++.
• 3+ years of experience developing automation for large-scale or live-service environments.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Experience with Perforce and/or Git version-control workflows.
• Experience building and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems using Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or CloudWatch.
• Strong understanding of networking, security practices, and environment isolation.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.
• Passion for automation, developer enablement, and building reliable systems that scale.
• Desired knowledge of Unreal Engine and tools including Unreal Build Tool, Unreal Automation Tool, Horde, and SubmitTool.
• Bonus experience with multiplayer or live games, artifact management, distributed caching, CI parallelization, secure software development, secrets management, automated security scanning, and console or PC game build pipelines.
• Desire to mentor engineers and advocate for continuous improvement.

Benefits

• One-year temporary full-time position with benefits.
• Hybrid onsite work arrangement in Orlando, Florida.
• Benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental-well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, complimentary games, and career and community wellness programs.