About the role
Job Location and Conditions
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Employment Type: Onsite
- On-Call Requirement: Yes (Periodic Rotation)
- Relocation: No relocation assistance provided
Who We Are
2K is a global video game company and a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Headquartered in Novato, California, 2K publishes titles across genres including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment. The portfolio includes brands such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, XCOM, WWE 2K, WWE SuperCard, TopSpin 2K25, and PGA TOUR 2K. 2K maintains an inclusive work environment that encourages teams to Come as You Are.
What We Need
Seeking a DevOps Engineer to build, support, and improve infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling to facilitate reliable services and developer experiences. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, automation, and operational excellence in collaboration with other teams.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation.
- Support the reliability, scalability, and performance of development and production environments.
- Improve developer workflows through automation, tooling, and documentation.
- Contribute to observability efforts, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and incident response.
- Partner with software engineers and platform teams to troubleshoot issues and improve delivery processes.
- Participate in on-call rotations and help resolve operational incidents.
- Maintain infrastructure standards, security practices, and operational runbooks.
- Support cost-conscious engineering through efficient infrastructure usage and tagging practices.
What Will Make You a Great Fit
- Demonstrated experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles within an enterprise or multi-team environment.
- Hands-on experience with production cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and containerized/orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS).
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows (e.g., Terraform) and managing environment-specific configurations.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Demonstrated operational experience, including participating in on-call rotations, managing production incidents, and using observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana).
- Familiarity with managing work via formal ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow) and cross-functional coordination.
- A focus on service reliability, documentation (runbooks), and operational excellence.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with a proven ability to identify root causes and work collaboratively across diverse engineering teams.
- Clear and effective communication skills, particularly in conveying technical information, documenting processes, and adapting to fast-paced environments.
Bonus Points
- Experience supporting GitOps-based deployment workflows and tools such as ArgoCD.
- Familiarity with cost optimization practices, including tagging strategies, rightsizing, and resource usage analysis.
- Exposure to security-focused automation, such as secrets management, policy enforcement, or vulnerability/scanning workflows.
- Experience writing scripts or lightweight tooling in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.