Sr. Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job Title:Sr. Cloud Engineer

Requisition ID:R002579

Job Title: Sr. Cloud Engineer
Reporting To: Sr. Manager, DevOps
Department: Central Tech

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Your Mission

The Activision Infrastructure team is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join the team in either our office in Vancouver, Canada or in Sherman Oaks, California. This team supports a variety of cloud workloads and you will be instrumental in setting standards on key technologies. You will help drive efficiencies and both cost and performance within Amazon Web Services and the Google Cloud Platform.

We work on large, distributed systems such as Kafka and Cassandra, keep them running in the Cloud, and help internal teams build large projects on Google Cloud using Terraform.

Responsibilities:
• Drive IaC and automation projects to produce scalable and repeatable infrastructure
• Guide cloud, security and data governance standards and requirements
• Coordinate with development teams to identify and implement appropriate GCP services
• Troubleshoot issues with cloud services, vendors, and open source projects
• Actively contribute to documentation repositories
• Design custom tools and scripts as necessary
• Participate in an on-call support rotation

Player Profile
• Demonstrated ability designing and delivering large-scale projects
• Experience managing reproducible infrastructure e.g. Infrastructure as Code
• Container Experience (container build pipelines, troubleshooting, and architecture)
• Basic networking (routes, security groups, firewall rules)
• Experience in version control and managing build pipelines
• Excellent communication skills
• 2+ yrs Cloud Computing Experience (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• 5+ yrs of System Engineering experience or equivalent

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