Cloud Systems Engineer II

Headquartered in New York City Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. is a leading developer publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. We develop and publish products principally through Rockstar Games 2K and Zynga. Our strategy is to create hit entertainment experiences delivered on every platform relevant to our audience through a variety of sound business models. Our pillars - creativity innovation and efficiency - guide us as we strive to create the highest quality most captivating experiences for our consumers. The Companys common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at.

While our offices (physical and virtual) are casual and inviting we are deeply committed to our core tenets of creativity innovation and efficiency and individual and team development opportunities. Our industry and business are continually evolving and fast-paced providing numerous opportunities to learn and hone your skills. We work hard but we also like to have fun and believe that we provide a great place to come to work each day to pursue your passions.

The Systems Engineering team crafts builds deploys and maintains a wide variety of IT infrastructure using the latest standards and technologies.

We are actively looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer with a broad range of systems infrastructure related and general purpose programming skills. Our ideal candidate has a rich and diverse technical background is creative and passionate about IT systems as well as standardization optimization and automation. Furthermore this candidate will have experience architecting engineering implementing and supporting large scale enterprise networks storage and system infrastructures in public and private cloud and on-prem solutions to accommodate end-users developers and internal/external customers.

Candidates are expected to stay aware of industry changes and plan to keep ahead of industry advancements to help guide the use and implementation of technology at Take-Two.

• Architect deploy and maintain scalable highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP following cloud-native best practices.
• Manage all infrastructure-as-code using Terraform writing reviewing and enforcing IaC standards across the team.
• Develop and maintain automation tooling and internal platforms using Python reducing manual toil.
• Lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitHub workflows..
• Proactively monitor system performance and availability participate in an on-call rotation and drive post incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Collaborate closely with development security and networking teams to evaluate and adopt new cloud services and technologies.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers establishing standards for code quality.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation runbooks and architecture decision records.

• Hands-on cloud engineering experience with significant depth in AWS (EC2 ECS/EKS RDS EBS S3 Lambda IAM VPC and more) and working knowledge of GCP.
• Write terraform modules manage state enforce policy and review IaC PRs.
• Use GitHub for pull requests branch strategy actions workflows and repository management..
• Python is your primary scripting and automation language. You write clean tested maintainable code.
• Proficiency with Linux system administration networking fundamentals (TCP/IP DNS load balancing firewalls) and container technologies (Docker Kubernetes / EKS).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience building or maintaining delivery pipelines.
• Experience architecting for high availability fault tolerance and cost optimization in a cloud-native environment.
• Communicate clearly to explain complex infrastructure topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Familiarity with observability stacks like Datadog Grafana Prometheus CheckMK or equivalent.
• Knowledge of service mesh or advanced networking patterns (e.g. AWS Transit Gateway PrivateLink GCP VPC peering).
• Background in gaming media or other high-throughput latency-sensitive industries.
• Experience with cost management tooling and FinOps practices in large AWS environments.

• Great Company Culture. Ranked as 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 Play Hard.Our employees bond blow-off steam and flex some creative muscles through corporate boot camp classes company parties game release events monthly socials and team challenges.
• Benefits. Medical (HSA & FSA) dental vision 401(k) with company match employee stock purchase plan commuter benefits in-house wellness program broad learning & development opportunities a charitable giving platform with company match and more!
• Perks. Fitness allowance employee discount programs free games & events and stocked pantries.

Regular full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company including: medical dental vision and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Companys discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses. The use of Artificial Intelligence is not being used to screen candidates. The position is for an existing vacancy.

Please be aware that Take-Two does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram WhatsApp or others. Take-Two also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process and the Company will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing exercise. Take-Twos in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e. via a email domain). If you need to report an issue or otherwise have questions please contact

As an equal opportunity employer Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (Take-Two) is committed to fostering and celebrating the diverse thoughts cultures and backgrounds of its talent partners and communities throughout its organization. Consistent with this commitment Take-Two does not discriminate or retaliate against any employee or job applicant because of their race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin age disability and genetic information (including family medical history) or on the basis of any other trait protected by applicable law. If you need to report a concern or have questions regarding Take-Twos equal opportunity commitment please contact