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Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.
Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.
At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.
2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
The 2K Platforms team is responsible for the operations, engineering and architecture of all on premise data centers including networking, virtualization and storage at 2K Games. This team handles DDOS protection,CDNs, GTM spanning multiple datacenters both terrestrial and cloud-based.
We are looking for an expert engineer who is passionate about building multi-datacenter infrastructure and services. Robust systems and problem-solving skills are required as we develop solutions for game studios and support data centers around the world alongside a group of outstanding engineers. In this role, you will collaborate with network engineers, systems architects, and development staff to support our gamers and the needs of the business.
Build and operate highly resilient systems in a multi-datacenter and cloud global environment serving game and consumer services
Develop tools for the management and automation of the systems and service infrastructure
Define and implement standards that will impact systems, services, and multiple cloud environments
Diagnose and resolve technical issues from both internal and external customers and drive improvements to prevent them from recurring
Participate in Platforms on-call rotation
You are eager to work in a fast-paced environment with other highly skilled engineers who are passionate about service availability and health!
If the idea of building data center infrastructure services from greenfield to implementation moves you!
4+ years of demonstrated influence across one or more teams for large scale projects that drive impact and improvement across the organization
4+ years of experience in an Platforms or System engineer role for online services in a multi-region, multi-cloud environment with specific experience in reliability and resiliency
4+ years of developing tools for automation of processes or augmenting off the shelf tool functionality
2+ years of AWS and/or GCP cloud experience running highly elastic mission critical workloads
4+ years system engineering experience
2+ years of experience using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or others
Extensive knowledge of storage service, virtualization, Windows server os and Linux
Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting
Serve as a mentor to junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the organization.
· Prior hands-on experience running large scale virtual environments
· Prior hands-on experience with NetApp, Pure or vmware VSAN
· Experience designing and crafting Iac for network and systems
· Debugging, code optimization, and routine task automation skills
· Demonstrated ability to decompose sophisticated problems. Ability to engage in lateral investigations.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.
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