Gaming Infra Engineering Manager – Scale CI/CD (On-Site Austin)

CyberCoders; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 102,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CyberCoders seeks an Engineering Manager, Infrastructure in Austin, TX to lead a team responsible for CI/CD pipelines, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, and release management. This role reports to the Head of Engineering and blends people leadership with hands-on engineering to improve automation, reliability, and scalability across titles.

The successful candidate will drive build performance, partner with cross-functional teams, and shape the infrastructure roadmap while mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience leading engineering teams while remaining technically hands-on.
• Extensive experience designing, operating, and scaling complex infrastructure environments.
• Expertise in automation, scripting, and infrastructure optimization.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of infrastructure and DevOps engineers.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, and career development discussions.
• Help define staffing plans and recommend organizational growth to support evolving infrastructure needs.
• Manage team priorities, workload balancing, and execution against strategic objectives.
• Oversee the design, development, and operation of a robust CI/CD pipeline.
• Drive the technical roadmap for build, release, and infrastructure systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead initiatives to reduce build times, improve developer experience, and optimize infrastructure utilization.
• Ensure pipeline solutions effectively support globally distributed teams and external partners.
• Serve as a hands-on contributor through coding, scripting, troubleshooting, architecture design, and technical problem-solving.
• Champion engineering best practices for automation, deployment, monitoring, and system reliability.
• Partner closely with Engineers, Designers, Artists, IT, and Production teams to align infrastructure solutions with product goals.
• Ensure comprehensive architecture documentation, operational procedures, and user-facing documentation are maintained.
• Monitor and improve key performance indicators including build success rates, build duration, deployment reliability, and infrastructure health.
• Lead incident response, postmortem reviews, and initiatives that transition teams from reactive operations to proactive reliability management.
• Oversee service lifecycle management, deployment processes, and operational health of engineering-owned infrastructure.
• Partner with IT and Security teams to maintain secure access controls and infrastructure governance, including systems such as Perforce.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on engineering

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

TeamCity

Perforce

AWS

Job description

CyberCoders seeks an Engineering Manager, Infrastructure in Austin, TX to lead a team responsible for CI/CD pipelines, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, and release management. This role reports to the Head of Engineering and blends people leadership with hands-on engineering to improve automation, reliability, and scalability across titles.

The successful candidate will drive build performance, partner with cross-functional teams, and shape the infrastructure roadmap while mentoring engineers