Game DevOps Engineer — Cloud Infra for Live Games (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Annual Video Game Budget

401(k) Retirement Plan

9 Paid Holidays plus Flexible PTO and

Job summary

Rushdown Studios is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team supporting a large-scale game development project. You will work with our current engineers to improve infrastructure reliability and automate provisioning.

The role favors candidates in the Eastern United States willing to work from our Saratoga Springs, NY office on a hybrid schedule (Tue-Thu) or fully remote. Game development experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional Azure experience.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of game packaging/deployments for different platforms.
• Experience with build pipelines that compile code.
• Monitoring with DataDog, CloudWatch, Prometheus.
• Ability to debug unexpected issues during development.
• Strong communication and team-player mindset.
• Security/compliance awareness in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure for game development and live-service games.
• Deploy infrastructure-as-code for cloud resources using Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, or Azure Resource Manager templates.
• Promote cloud security best practices and compliance requirements for gaming infrastructure.
• Design and develop CI/CD pipelines for builds and deployments.
• Respond to live support issues for a live-service game.
• Empower multiple teams through development environment automation.

Skills

Azure

Python

PowerShell

Groovy

CI/CD

Debugging

Communication

Team player

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep

Azure Resource Manager

Job description

Rushdown Studios is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team supporting a large-scale game development project. You will work with our current engineers to improve infrastructure reliability and automate provisioning.

The role favors candidates in the Eastern United States willing to work from our Saratoga Springs, NY office on a hybrid schedule (Tue-Thu) or fully remote. Game development experience is a plus.