Azure Platform Engineer - Live Game Infra & CI/CD

rushdownstudios; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Nine paid holidays

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

401(k)

Annual video game budget

Job summary

rushdownstudios is seeking an experienced Cloud/DevOps engineer to support a large-scale game project. You will design and maintain cloud infrastructure for development and live services, build CI/CD pipelines, and ensure reliability across platforms.

Hybrid work options are available with a strong emphasis on collaboration within an established engineering team. Candidates should have 4+ years in Azure, strong scripting skills, and prior game development experience.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of Microsoft Azure experience.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Containers and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Game packaging and deployment across platforms.
• Experience building pipelines that compile code.
• Monitoring with Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus.
• Debugging development blockers and proactive communication.
• Previous game development experience required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure for game development and live services.
• Provision resources using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Apply security and compliance practices to gaming infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for game builds and deployments.
• Respond to operational issues affecting a live-service game.
• Automate development environments and tools for multiple teams.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Groovy

Debugging

Game development experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Datadog

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Job description

rushdownstudios is seeking an experienced Cloud/DevOps engineer to support a large-scale game project. You will design and maintain cloud infrastructure for development and live services, build CI/CD pipelines, and ensure reliability across platforms.

Hybrid work options are available with a strong emphasis on collaboration within an established engineering team. Candidates should have 4+ years in Azure, strong scripting skills, and prior game development experience.