Lead DevOps Engineer - Remote, CI/CD & Cloud Automation

2K Games, Inc.; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Visual Concepts is seeking a Lead Engineer to join our WWE 2K DevOps team. You will own the technical vision and strategy, shaping CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment automation to support rapid, cross‑studio game development.

You will collaborate across disciplines, mentor engineers, and push for reliability, performance, and scalable tooling. Strong Python/PowerShell and cloud experience are a must, as is passion for games.

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

Cross-team collaboration

OO programming (C/C++/C#)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

Perforce

Jenkins

Git

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes/Docker

Puppet

Job description

Visual Concepts is seeking a Lead Engineer to join our WWE 2K DevOps team. You will own the technical vision and strategy, shaping CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment automation to support rapid, cross‑studio game development.

You will collaborate across disciplines, mentor engineers, and push for reliability, performance, and scalable tooling. Strong Python/PowerShell and cloud experience are a must, as is passion for games.