DevOps Engineer Multiplayer Competitive Shooter (KubernetesAWS) Remote or Hybrid

Join the veterans from Call of Duty Halo & Bioshock building a competitive multiplayer shooter at Ironbelly Studios

Our 20 person team has contributed to 300 game projects. Now were building our own competitive shooter and need a DevOps engineer to architect rock-solid infrastructure.

What Youll Own

• Kubernetes orchestration - Multi-cluster game server management with Helm
• AWS infrastructure - Design and optimize with Terraform (IaC mandatory)
• CI/CD pipelines - GitHub Actions for automated deployments
• Security & secrets - Implement Hashicorp Vault for credentials management
• Cost optimization - Keep AWS bills sustainable while scaling
• Monitoring - Full observability stack for game servers

Day-to-Day Impact

• Architect Kubernetes clusters for competitive match hosting
• Write Terraform modules for reproducible infrastructure
• Build GitHub Actions workflows for safe deployments
• Implement Vault for secure secrets management
• Monitor game server performance and player experience metrics
• Collaborate with platform engineers on latency optimization

Required Technical Skills

• 3-5 years DevOps/Infrastructure experience
• Kubernetes - Production experience with Helm charts
• AWS - Strong knowledge of EKS VPC EC2 CloudFront
• Terraform - Infrastructure as Code (not ClickOps)
• GitHub Actions - CI/CD pipeline development
• Monitoring - Prometheus Grafana or similar
• Scripting - Python or Bash for automation

Bonus Points

• Hashicorp Vault experience (huge plus!)
• Previous gaming/live service infrastructure
• GameLift or game server orchestration
• Cost optimization track record
• Experience with competitive multiplayer infrastructure

Work Setup

• Hybrid Remote model
• Flexible hours with core collaboration time
• On-call rotation shared across team

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits (dental vision vacation)
• Work on a competitive AAA shooter
• Low bureaucracy high ownership
• Direct impact on player experience

Ready to build infrastructure for competitive gaming

We value proven experience over years. If youve successfully managed Kubernetes in production and know your way around Terraform we want to talk.

Apply and be ready to show off examples of infrastructure youve built. Show us your Terraform modules or Helm charts (sanitized). Tell us about that time you saved 40% on AWS costs or prevented a major outage. Whatever it is we cant wait to hear all about it!