DevOps Lead Engineer: CI/CD, Cloud & Automation Champion

Visual Concepts; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 139,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Visual Concepts seeks a Lead Engineer to join the DevOps team, owning the technical vision and strategy for DevOps across the studio. You will design and drive CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and tooling to support WWE 2K development, partnering with multiple teams to enable efficient, repeatable builds and deployments.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Eng, strong cloud and IaC experience, and solid coding skills in C/C++/C#.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Perforce, Jenkins, Git, and/or other version control and automated build systems
• Hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and containerized environments
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows and configuration management tools such as Puppet
• Strong understanding of object oriented programming, modern architectural design patterns, and C/C++/C#
• Systems engineering expertise across Windows and Linux environments, including scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and familiarity with the .NET ecosystem
• Ability to balance technical depth with cross-team collaboration and clear communication
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and driving alignment

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment automation
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of development and production environments
• Improve developer workflows through automation and tooling, while ensuring high quality documentation and support
• Establish standards and best practices for deployments, environments, observability, and operations
• Collaborate with studio partners to refine cross-team workflows and processes
• Act as a technical leader, developing and driving technical strategy and vision for your team.
• Push the limits of what is possible.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform Eng

Perforce

Jenkins

Git

AWS

GCP

IaC

Puppet

C/C++/C#

Windows

Linux

Python

PowerShell

Bash

.NET

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Perforce

Jenkins

Git

Cloud Infra

Containerization

Job description

Visual Concepts seeks a Lead Engineer to join the DevOps team, owning the technical vision and strategy for DevOps across the studio. You will design and drive CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and tooling to support WWE 2K development, partnering with multiple teams to enable efficient, repeatable builds and deployments.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Eng, strong cloud and IaC experience, and solid coding skills in C/C++/C#.