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 Meiers 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 and 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) 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

Required Qualifications

• 5 years in SRE Platform Engineering or equivalent infrastructure work at production scale

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

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

• Modern and Legacy Tech: AWS GCP VMware and Bare metal servers

• Server Configuration using Ansible Puppet and AWS Systems Manager

• Observability stack experience: Datadog Prometheus Grafana and OpenTelemetry

• SLI/SLO/error budget fluency including how to operationalize them inside engineering teams

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

• Linux internals TCP/IP networking DNS and TLS proven enough to debug at the system level

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Live-service game or large-scale consumer internet experience at millions of concurrent users

• Service mesh depth (Istio Cilium) and advanced Kubernetes networking

• FinOps and managing resources 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

The pay range for this position in Burnaby Canada at the start of employment is expected to be between $93700 and $138700 per Year. However base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations.

Subject to those same considerations the total compensation package for employees in regular roles may also include other elements including a bonus and/or equity awards in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits provided that temporary or intern roles will not be eligible for many of these payments or benefits. Details of participation in compensation and benefit plans (if applicable) will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired the company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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.

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 accounts.

Please note that 2K Publishing is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.

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