Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At 2K we create some of the most iconic and culture-shaping video games in entertainment including NBA® 2K one of the top-selling franchises in the world and legendary titles like BioShock® Borderlands® Mafia Sid Meier’s Civilization® and XCOM® as well as fan favorites WWE® 2K TopSpin® and PGA TOUR® 2K. We build unforgettable experiences by pushing the boundaries of creativity authenticity and innovation across every genre.

Our portfolio is brought to life by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Visual Concepts Firaxis Games Hangar 13 Cat Daddy Games 31st Union Cloud Chamber Gearbox HB Studios and 2K SportsLab create world-class experiences across platforms. But what truly powers 2K is our people. We believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered supported and inspired. As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to fostering a diverse inclusive workplace where people are encouraged to come as they are and do their best work.

The 2K SRE team owns the infrastructure behind every player connection—All 2K game services account platforms CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling spanning AWS GCP and on-premises data centers across multiple global regions. Global launch windows and live-service events push systems to their limits and this team is expected to hold the line.

Post-mortems here focus on systems not people. Automation is the default answer to repetitive work. The infrastructure keeps millions of players connected and the team takes that seriously!

The Senior SRE at 2K is a hands-on technical leader—shaping production infrastructure across multiple clouds and regions while partnering with network engineers systems architects and game studio developers. This is an ownership role: driving technical direction influencing reliability from architecture review through production operation and closing the gap between what engineering ships and what players experience.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Design build and operate scalable multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure using Terraform Pulumi and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD Flux).

• Own Kubernetes platforms (EKS GKE) end-to-end cluster lifecycle multi-tenancy networking (Istio Cilium) and autoscaling.

• Push progressive delivery patterns (blue/green canary) across game service deployments.

Observability & Reliability

• Build and run the full observability stack: Prometheus + Grafana + Datadog.

• Define SLI/SLO/error budget policies and build alerting that cuts through the noise.

• Lead chaos engineering exercises to surface failure modes before players encounter them.

• Drive incident response and post-mortems with a focus on systemic fixes and real follow-through.

Automation Security & Developer Experience

• Eliminate toil through self-service provisioning automated remediation and intelligent scaling.

• Harden CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD).

• Embed security at the platform layer through secrets management (PasswordState 1Password and AWS Secrets Manager) and policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper).

Leadership

• Promote SRE practices across 2K studios through reliability reviews runbooks and embedded collaboration.

• Shape architectural decisions and author engineering RFCs that move the platform forward.

• Experience: 5+ years in SRE Platform Engineering or equivalent infrastructure work at production scale.

• Kubernetes: Deep experience in cloud environments (EKS or GKE preferred) including networking storage and multi-cluster patterns.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong proficiency with Terraform and/or Pulumi; hands-on with Helm Terragrunt and GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or GitHub Actions).

• Environments: Experience with modern and legacy tech including AWS GCP VMware and Bare metal servers.

• Configuration Management: Server configuration using Ansible Puppet and AWS Systems Manager.

• Observability: Experience with Datadog Prometheus + Grafana and OpenTelemetry; fluency in operationalizing SLI/SLO/error budgets inside engineering teams.

• Software Engineering: Production-quality code in Go Python or TypeScript for tools automation and internal libraries.

• Systems & Networking: Solid understanding of Linux internals TCP/IP networking DNS and TLS proven enough to debug at the system level.

• Incident Management: Incident response and post-mortem leadership with a track record of systemic follow-through.

• Live-service game or large-scale consumer internet experience dealing with millions of concurrent users.

• Deep knowledge of Service mesh (Istio Cilium) and advanced Kubernetes networking.

• Experience with FinOps and managing resources efficiently at cloud scale.

• Experience with AI and Agentic Development.

• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect GCP Professional Cloud Architect CKA/CKS or equivalent).

• Experience mentoring SREs or leading reliability working groups.

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 reasonable accommodation.

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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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