Lead DevOps Engineer - Remote, CI/CD & Cloud

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

Job summary

Visual Concepts is seeking a Lead Engineer for the WWE 2K DevOps team to own the technical vision and drive automation that supports rapid, reliable game development across studios. You will shape deployment tooling, standards, and workflows to enable next-gen title delivery.

With 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, you will influence across Windows, Linux, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP), leveraging IaC and Puppet to enforce best practices and scalable architectures.

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 Engineering

Perforce

Jenkins

Git

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Puppet

IaC

C/C++

C#

Windows

Linux

Python

PowerShell

Bash

.NET

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Perforce

Jenkins

Git

AWS

GCP

Puppet

Job description

Visual Concepts is seeking a Lead Engineer for the WWE 2K DevOps team to own the technical vision and drive automation that supports rapid, reliable game development across studios. You will shape deployment tooling, standards, and workflows to enable next-gen title delivery.

With 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, you will influence across Windows, Linux, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP), leveraging IaC and Puppet to enforce best practices and scalable architectures.