Senior SRE: Hybrid Cloud, Automation & Reliability Leader

2K Games, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

2K Games, Inc. is seeking a Senior SRE to own and shape production infrastructure across AWS and on‑prem VMware environments. You will collaborate with network engineers, DBAs, systems architects and game studio developers to ensure reliability and scale for live services and launches.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, architecture direction, and end‑to‑end reliability improvements, with a focus on automation, secure networking, and resilient CI/CD pipelines across global regions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering or equivalent infrastructure work at production scale.
• Deep AWS experience: EC2, VPC networking, IAM, RDS/Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB and CloudWatch.
• Strong VMware vSphere experience: ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and/or NSX, plus bare-metal server operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable hybrid infrastructure across AWS and VMware, provisioning with Terraform and configuration with Puppet.
• Own EC2 fleets and VMware clusters, including capacity planning, patching and image pipelines.
• Architect secure, resilient AWS networking (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, CloudFront).
• Operate and automate F5 BIG-IP load balancers and firewalls, including SSL offload and HA.
• Use blue/green and canary releases for game services with CodeDeploy and DNS-based traffic shifting.

Skills

SRE experience

AWS

VMware

F5 BIG-IP

Database reliability

IaC Terraform

Puppet

CI/CD

Go/Python/TypeScript

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

AWS Systems Manager

CodeDeploy

iControl REST

AS3

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

2K Games, Inc. is seeking a Senior SRE to own and shape production infrastructure across AWS and on‑prem VMware environments. You will collaborate with network engineers, DBAs, systems architects and game studio developers to ensure reliability and scale for live services and launches.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, architecture direction, and end‑to‑end reliability improvements, with a focus on automation, secure networking, and resilient CI/CD pipelines across global regions.