Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Job Summary
Who We Are
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 2Ks portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms include Visual Concepts Firaxis Hangar 13 CatDaddy Cloud Chamber 31st Union HB Studios and 2K SportsLab. 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 todays 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 2Ks portfolio currently includes several AAA sports and entertainment brands including global powerhouse NBA 2K renowned BioShock Borderlands Mafia Sid Meiers Civilization and XCOM brands; popular WWE 2K and WWE SuperCard franchises TopSpin 2K25 as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed PGA TOUR 2K
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 dont meet every requirement for the role. If youre interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K we encourage you to apply!
The Team
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!
What we Need
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.
What Youll Do
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
What Will Make You a Great Fit
- 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
What we offer you:
- Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work creativity innovation efficiency diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
- Growth: As a global entertainment company we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves inquisitive collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
- Work Hard Enjoy Life.Our employees bond blow-off steam and flex some creative muscles through corporate boot camp classes company parties our Office gaming spaces game release events monthly socials and team challenges.
- Benefits. Benefits include but are not limited to; Discretionary bonus Provident fund contributions 15 medical insurance top up options and access to Practo online Doctor consultation App Employee assistance program 3X CTC Life Assurance 3X CTC Personal accident insurance childcare services 20 days holiday statutory holidays
- Perks. Gym reimbursement up to INR1150 per month wellbeing program with the chance to earn up to $93 per annum charitable giving program access to learning platforms employee discount programs plus free games and events!
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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About Company
2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment.