Programmeur.se DevOps senior / Senior DevOps Programmer

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios , the award-winning development team behind Starfield , The Elder Scrolls and Fallout . Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

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

Qualifications

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) :

• Bonus: SQL

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• 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

What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Cloud Platform Proficiency

• 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 data center and cloud platforms
• Expertise in strengths and weaknesses of solutions offered by each cloud provider

AI/ML Platform Services (AI DevOps)

• 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)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• 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

Security and Compliance

• 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 protection, and Web Application Firewall

DevOps and Automation

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City
• Expertise in 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

Networking and Connectivity

• 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

Data Management

• Skills in managing data repositories and movement across cloud platforms, such as Synapse, Redshift, and Kafka
• Database Administration basics for different database types (MySQL derivatives and Mongo derivatives)
• Bonus: SQL

Operational Management

• Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management integration, policy management, and chargeback/categorization/tagging mechanisms

Open Source and Containerization

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

Programming

• 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
• Bonus: GoLang and/or C++
• Package management
• APIs and Integration - Skills in API lifecycle management, proxies, and integration
• Proficiency with cloud-based monitoring, alerting, and logging systems such as Splunk, Graphite, CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, Data Dog
• Knowledge of best practices and cost impact of using these tools

System Administration

• 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

Preferred Skills

Bonus

Bonus Skills

• You have built and architected major game systems for a AAA service-based game

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.

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