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2K is headquartered in Novato California and is a wholly owned label of TakeTwo 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 worldclass 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 roleplaying 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!
We are looking for a Sr Manager of Devops and Observability for the CoreTech Platform Engineering team that reports into the Senior Director of Platform Engineering. This role will be leading the Devops and Observability teams that support our production and development environments for our game platform and studios. Robust leadership technical and communication skills are required as you work with internal game teams and customers to adopt and implement modern scalable architecture patterns.
Develop manage and drive the Devops and Observability teams strategic direction to enable engineering teams to ship and release reliably securely and efficiently.
Lead and scale Devops and Observability teams to focus on root cause analysis pattern identification and continuous improvement in order to optimize application performance resilience and reliability.
Develop and implement SRE best practices and techniques including detecting and responding to issues and restoring applications/services across business domains.
Build metricsdriven approach to ensure the stability and security of enterprise cloud services including SLIs SLOs and SLAs
Establish and supervise OKRs to measure overall progress for the teams
Architect and operate highly resilient systems in a multicloud global environment serving game and consumer services.
Partner with cross functional teams to support and improve our overall security posture Patch Management Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity efforts.
Establish working processes with software engineering teams to support our innovation efforts.
Define and implement standards that will affect systems services and multiple software environments
5 years experience in the SRE Devops. or system engineering fields
3 years coaching and mentoring senior technical talent
5 years experience using Observability tools like Datadog New Relic etc.
5 years experience working with CICD tools like GHA Jenkins ArgoCD etc.
Experience dealing with challenging customers to drive standardization through influencing stakeholders partners and customers
Proven leadership skills with a focus on adapting and changing as the organization or environment requires. Create an environment of ownership which continuously challenges the team to evolve our platforms and services to meet customer needs.
Deeply knowledgeable about modern infrastructure management tools and processes.
Relentless focus on availability security and performance with a customercentric mindset
Software engineering fundamentals in system design architecture and tooling
Fluent with at least one modern programming language and a good understanding of code management principles
Experience architecting and maintaining large scale distributed infrastructure that spans on premise and cloud datacenters
Has architected microservices using virtualization or containerization.
Experience managing stakeholder relationships communicating with and addressing the companys executive leadership team.
Experience building a CICD platform and/or Observability Platform from start to finish.
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 reasonable accommodation.
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The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $155800 and $230560 per Year. However base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as jobrelated knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations the total compensation package for this position 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. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired employee will be in an atwill position and 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.
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Senior Manager
Full Time