Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Founded in 2005 2K Games is a global video game company publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms include Visual Concepts Firaxis Hangar 13 CatDaddy Cloud Chamber and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres including sports shooters action role-playing strategy casual and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers marketers artists writers data scientists producers thinkers and doers are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K Battleborn BioShock Borderlands The Darkness Mafia Sid Meier’s Civilization WWE 2K and XCOM.

At 2K we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do their best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Platform Insights team reporting to the Senior Manager. This role will lead the Observability team that supports our game platform and studios across production and development environments. 

• Architect develop and evolve our enterprise-wide observability platform to provide deep visibility into infrastructure and application performance
• Design and implement monitoring solutions leveraging modern metrics and visualization technologies with support for additional platform integrations
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to define and implement observability standards and best practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Implement and maintain automation for monitoring configurations using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools
• Integrate observability standards to unify metrics logs and traces across collection pipelines
• Drive cost optimization initiatives around monitoring and logging balancing data retention performance and value
• Partner with developers and operations teams to enable self-service observability capabilities
• Create automation and alerting processes to proactively identify and resolve performance issues before they impact business operations
• Participate in architectural reviews to ensure observability is embedded into new services and platforms from the outset
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing around observability tools processes and patterns
• Deliver reports and visualizations tailored for both technical and business stakeholders.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to evolve 2K’s observability strategy.
• Drive automation and process improvements to improve system performance resiliency and insight quality.
• Select configure and integrate industry-leading monitoring and telemetry tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK Dynatrace Datadog).

• 5+ years of professional experience in information technology including 3+ years specializing in observability monitoring or SRE engineering.
• Deep knowledge of monitoring toolsets such as Prometheus Grafana ELK Splunk Dynatrace Datadog or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and tool development.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes Docker and cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure).
• Strong understanding of networking infrastructure and performance optimization.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible Chef Puppet) and CI/CD integration.
• Proven track record designing and delivering dashboards alerts and performance reports for multiple audiences.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical insights into actionable recommendations.

• Experience building an Observability practice from the ground up.
• Experience with developing software for highly scalable/distributed systems
• Experience using IaC for highly elastic workloads
• Experience in gaming or similar industries combining large-scale internet-facing systems with software development and entertainment services culture
• Familiarity with common source code repositories and infrastructure as code methodologies

As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform their essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need a reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing only use 2K.com accounts.

What We Do

2K is headquartered in Novato California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005 2K Games is a global video game company publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms include Visual Concepts Firaxis Hangar 13 CatDaddy Cloud Chamber 31st Union and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres including sports shooters action role-playing strategy casual and family entertainment. Our team of engineers marketers artists writers data scientists producers thinkers and doers are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K 2K PGA Battleborn BioShock Borderlands The Quarry The Darkness Mafia Sid Meier’s Civilization Marvel’s Midnight Suns WWE 2K and XCOM. At 2K we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K we encourage you to apply!

Why Work With Us

We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We push ourselves creatively to do the best work of our careers. We’re direct open and you’ll probably meet some new best friends – along with their dogs – sitting nearby. In short it’s kinda awesome.

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