Cloud Platform Engineer — NYC, Secure & Scalable Cloud

Rockstargames; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockstar Games is seeking a seasoned Engineer to enable safe, scalable cloud adoption across the company. This full‑time, in‑office role sits in NYC and focuses on evaluating cloud platforms, PoCs, production transitions, and governance for security, cost, and data protection.

You will partner with Security, Operations, Infrastructure, Development and Legal teams to design platform architecture, standards, and guardrails while mentoring teams on best practices and enterprise requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years in cloud-native systems, cloud platforms and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience with automation tools including Git, Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, or modern platform engineering practices.
• Experience in cloud-native system design and implementation.
• Experience integrating APIs and services into production environments.
• Strong grasp of enterprise security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate enterprise cloud platforms and services for security, scalability, cost and enterprise fit.
• Maintain a catalogue of approved cloud platforms and usage patterns.
• Maintain documentation and support development teams in design and implementation of cloud-enabled workflows and architecture.
• Coordinate with Security, Operations, Infrastructure, as well as Development and Legal stakeholders on platform architecture decisions.
• Coordinate with Security to define guardrails around data handling, access control, logging, and auditing.
• Design and enforce cost controls such as quotas, usage limits and reporting.
• Educate teams on capabilities, limitations, and best practices.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Automation tools

Kubernetes

API integration

Security fundamentals

Systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

Pulumi

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Rockstar Games is seeking a seasoned Engineer to enable safe, scalable cloud adoption across the company. This full‑time, in‑office role sits in NYC and focuses on evaluating cloud platforms, PoCs, production transitions, and governance for security, cost, and data protection.

You will partner with Security, Operations, Infrastructure, Development and Legal teams to design platform architecture, standards, and guardrails while mentoring teams on best practices and enterprise requirements.