Senior Devops Specialist

Job Description

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

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp3bmo-18-117-183-172-42 in your application.