Infrastructure Engineer Remote (Europe / US)

Elysium Interactive Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elysium Interactive Ltd is hiring a Game Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform our Minecraft network runs on. You’ll manage the full stack below the game, from bare metal to declarative configurations, with a focus on reproducibility and GitOps.

You’ll work on the container platform, networking, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability practices to build a scalable, maintainable infrastructure for real-time gameplay.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux fundamentals and ability to debug from first principles.
• Solid networking knowledge including DNS, TCP/UDP, routing, and firewalls.
• Automation mindset; treats infrastructure as code and uses Git as truth.

Responsibilities

• Own the game infrastructure platform and the underlying cluster.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Oversee networking paths from players to game servers and between services.
• Ensure reliability with capacity planning and incident postmortems.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Networking

Automation / IaC

AI agents fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Observability stacks

Container image builds

Job description

We’re hiring a Game Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform our Minecraft network runs on — from the bare metal up. This is a generalist systems role: a small fleet run with high standards, where everything is declarative, version-controlled, and reproducible.

What you’ll work on

The full stack below the game, wherever the next problem is:

• Container platform: the cluster the game runs on and the GitOps machinery that delivers to it
• Networking: the path from player to game server, and between services
• CI/CD: image pipelines, secrets management, local dev environments that mirror production
• Reliability: capacity planning, incident response, postmortems

Who we’re looking for

• Strong Linux fundamentals: processes, memory, storage, filesystems; able to debug a misbehaving system from first principles
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/UDP, DNS, routing, firewalls; comfortable reading a packet capture
• Automation instinct: fluent in shell plus a scripting language; allergic to doing anything by hand twice; treats infrastructure as code and git as the source of truth
• Fluency working with AI agents: directing them through research and operations for real leverage, reviewing their output with a critical eye, and knowing when a problem deserves your own head

Nice-to-haves

• Kubernetes in production and GitOps workflows
• Declarative, reproducible OS and configuration management
• Observability stacks: metrics pipelines, dashboards, alerting, log aggregation
• Secrets management: encrypted-at-rest workflows, key rotation
• Overlay/mesh networking and edge tunneling
• CI/CD pipelines and container image build systems
• Performance engineering: JVM tuning, latency analysis, resource isolation on shared hardware
• Minecraft or game-server hosting background: understanding what tick-sensitive workloads demand of a platform
• A homelab, and opinions formed by running one