Senior DevOps Specialist at Epic Games

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Cary,North Carolina,United States

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ENGINEERING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

As part of a small globally distributed team of infrastructure engineers, you’ll support existing UCS services (such as Unreal Editor for Fortnite, RealityScan, MetaHuman Creator, Twinmotion and Unreal Revision Control) and design/deploy new cloud systems which will help shape the future of collaborative content creation.

In this role, you will

Design, build and maintain cloud architectures which host some of Epic’s most exciting projects at global scale
Provide cloud expertise to backend software developers to help create cloud-native services together
Write infrastructure automation scripts which integrate with Unreal Engine
Create, troubleshoot and write runbooks for infrastructure alerts
Be given opportunities to contribute to application source code
Keep our CI/CD systems humming along
Participate in a light-weight on-call rotation, alongside the entire UCS cloud team

What we're looking for

Solid skills with and experience using terraform, AWS, Linux Administration and git
Experience designing and deploying cloud systems, you can quickly conceptualize high-level cloud infrastructure designs from given requirements and deliver with minimal oversight
An understanding of the realities of software development and the needs of software engineers
An expert in writing code at a level suitable for infrastructure automation purposes, ideally in bash and/or python
Good working knowledge and recent experience using AWS architecture - EC2, IAM, S3, RDS etc
Experience with containerisation,(with a good grasp of the fundamentals) and configuring, maintaining (and potentially extending) CI/CD systems
Experience leveraging observability systems to help extract a signal from noise and have an opinion on best practices for monitoring, logging and tracing
Ability to reason on different infrastructure design approaches with an understanding of trade-offs and non-functional attributes - performance / scalability / reliability / security / maintainability
Excellent written and spoken English with great interpersonal skills
Ability to mentor others on infrastructure engineering best practices
Bonus points for experience in managing Windows Server fleets in the Cloud

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

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