Remote Game Infrastructure Engineer

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

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.