Remote AI-Driven Game DevOps Engineer (AWS Infra)

Operativegames; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Competitive salary

Stock options

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Operative Games is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own our AWS environment, streamline deployments, and ensure secure, performant, highly available systems for our AI-driven narrative platform.

In this hands-on role you will implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, manage CI/CD pipelines, and work with engineering teams to optimize costs and reliability while maintaining security best practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps or cloud engineering with strong AWS background.
• Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) and automation mindset.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and IAM policies.

Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure Ownership: Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code: Implement and manage IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation to support repeatable, automated deployments.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support development workflows for both game and backend services.
• Monitoring & Logging: Set up observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK) to monitor performance, uptime, and cost.
• Security & Compliance: Apply cloud security best practices including IAM policies, encryption, secret management, and network configuration.
• Collaboration & Support: Work closely with engineering teams to support deployment needs, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and guide best practices.
• Cost Optimization: Monitor and manage cloud usage to ensure efficient and cost- effective infrastructure scaling.

Skills

Python

Bash

Automation

AWS

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Operative Games is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own our AWS environment, streamline deployments, and ensure secure, performant, highly available systems for our AI-driven narrative platform.

In this hands-on role you will implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, manage CI/CD pipelines, and work with engineering teams to optimize costs and reliability while maintaining security best practices.