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Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Welcome to Striking Distance Studios!

Driven by people. Inspired by challenges. Relentless to deliver creative excellence.

At the intersection of art, design and technology lies Striking Distance Studios. Led by Dead Space and Call of Duty franchise veteran Glen Schofield, a new AAA development studio has risen within the San Ramon Hills of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have planted roots in beautiful Bishop Ranch and are now building our flagship state-of-the-art development studio establishing the East Bay as the new up and coming creative and technological hub we know it to be.

Together with our PUBG partners, our team is hard at work to deliver an original narrative experience within the globally recognized and award-winning PUBG universe. Here at Striking Distance Studios it is amazing people, an immersive experience and a passion for excellence that drives us each day. We are looking for people who push themselves creatively and learn with every new challenge. We give you the setting and the opportunity to do work you are proud of. We're looking for the best to come join us and become part of a world-class team.

To us excellence is not a skill, but an attitude!

Striking Distance Studios is currently seeking a DevOps Cloud Engineer with Unreal 4.x experience to join our team and help build our cloud and storage systems from the ground up. In this role you will be a significant contributor, not only to the SDS IT/Security team but a key partner to the game studio DevOps teams. You will also be responsible for building and monitoring the health and security of the SDS cloud infrastructure, working with cloud/SaaS providers, and responding to day-to-day operational requests. You will possess solid technical skills, including experience in multi-cloud systems, storage environments, build environments, and cloud operations.

Your responsibilities include:

• Serving as a trusted resource for the cloud engineering environments throughout all the stages of development
• Supporting CI/CD operations in an “always-on” distributed cloud architecture
• Evaluating and adopting technologies that improve team efficiency and platform capabilities.
• Working with the development team to implement innovative technologies and providing support to external studios
• Developing scripts and utilizing automation for system builds and administration
• Maintaining documentation of systems configurations and procedures, including operational runbooks
• Supporting cloud storage backup, replication and recovery
• Monitoring and improving current cloud/security tools, including incident management, provisioning, and access management
• Supporting security activities such as system hardening, patching, and scanning for vulnerabilities
• Staying abreast of current trends and best practices for your discipline and related systems

You will be a perfect fit if you have:

• Must have experience building Unreal Engine including Light Baking, Shader Compilation, Packaging at AAA scale
• Experience with distributed secure networking from remote offices and sites, cloud connectivity optimization and accelerated transfers.
• 5 years’ experience in IT with relevant cloud/security experience
• Intermediate level knowledge of cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) desired
• Experience in identifying and resolving technical/security issues during systems implementation
• The ability to participate in multiple projects concurrently, effective at time management and organization
• Intermediate problem solving abilities, the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Good understanding or ability to rapidly learn new technologies
• Passion for the gaming industry, cloud or security discipline
• Great collaboration skills and ability to work as a team across multiple disciplines
• Great communication skills, as well as good interpersonal and relationship building skills

Qualifications and Certifications

• Should have experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud certification desired with DevOps specialization would be helpful
• Scripting and automation skills in Python, bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Knowledge of CloudFormation, Terraform, or “infrastructure as code” automation tools.
• Experience with Perforce or equivalent repositories.
• Experience in Atlassian Suite such as Jira, Confluence, Opsgenie.