Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & Gaming Infra Lead
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Job summary
Jagex is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind RuneScape and related titles. You will lead migration efforts to AWS, design scalable infra, and mentor a growing team while balancing on‑prem and cloud components.
Based in Cambridge with flexible remote work, you’ll join a hybrid environment and contribute to live game services, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability improvements across production systems.
Qualifications
- Strong Linux and AWS experience with IAM, EKS, ECS.
- Leadership in AWS projects and cloud migration.
- Experience applying IaC to cloud and on‑prem systems.
- Familiarity with hybrid cloud interconnects and networking.
- Kubernetes and DevOps mindset advantageous for gaming infra.
Responsibilities
- Lead cloud migration programme including lift‑and‑shift to AWS.
- Design and implement infrastructure to in‑house standards.
- Apply IaC across legacy and new cloud deployments to reduce debt.
- Support operational systems: game servers, web servers, backend infra.
- Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers.
- Participate in on‑call rota (1 week in 5, Mon–Mon).
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Job description
Jagex is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind RuneScape and related titles. You will lead migration efforts to AWS, design scalable infra, and mentor a growing team while balancing on‑prem and cloud components.
Based in Cambridge with flexible remote work, you’ll join a hybrid environment and contribute to live game services, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability improvements across production systems.
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