Cloud Platform Engineer — On‑Site NYC, Secure & Scalable

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

Job summary

Rockstar Games in New York City is seeking a passionate Cloud Platform Engineer to enable safe, scalable adoption of cloud technologies across the company. You will serve as the technical authority for cloud platforms, partnering with security, IT, and development teams to align production workflows with governance.

This full-time, in-office role focuses on evaluating cloud platforms, supporting PoCs, transitioning experiments to production, and enforcing cost controls and data protection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud-native systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience with automation tools including Git, Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible or similar.
• 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-native systems

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure architecture

APIs integration

Security fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Pulumi

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Rockstar Games in New York City is seeking a passionate Cloud Platform Engineer to enable safe, scalable adoption of cloud technologies across the company. You will serve as the technical authority for cloud platforms, partnering with security, IT, and development teams to align production workflows with governance.

This full-time, in-office role focuses on evaluating cloud platforms, supporting PoCs, transitioning experiments to production, and enforcing cost controls and data protection.