DevOps Engineer

 On-Call Requirement: Yes (Periodic Rotation)

THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION in Austin, TX. 

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 2K’s 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 today’s 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 2K’s portfolio currently includes several AAA, sports and entertainment brands, including global powerhouse NBA® 2K,  renowned BioShock®, Borderlands®, Mafia, Sid Meier’s 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 don’t meet every requirement for the role.  If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

What We Need

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer who can build, support, and improve infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling that help teams deliver reliable services and better developer experiences. This role focuses on hands-on engineering, automation, and day-to-day operational excellence in partnership with other engineers and teams.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation.
• Support the reliability, scalability, and performance of development and production environments.
• Improve developer workflows through automation, tooling, and documentation.
• Contribute to observability efforts, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and incident response.
• Partner with software engineers and platform teams to troubleshoot issues and improve delivery processes.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help resolve operational incidents.
• Help maintain infrastructure standards, security practices, and operational runbooks.
• Support cost-conscious engineering through efficient infrastructure usage and tagging practices.

What Will Make You a Great Fit

• Demonstrated experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles within an enterprise or multi-team environment.
• Hands-on experience with production cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and containerized/orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows (e.g., Terraform) and managing environment-specific configurations.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Demonstrated operational experience, including participating in on-call rotations, managing production incidents, and using observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana).
• Familiarity with managing work via formal ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow) and cross-functional coordination.
• A focus on service reliability, documentation (runbooks), and operational excellence.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with a proven ability to identify root causes and work collaboratively across diverse engineering teams.
• Clear and effective communication skills, particularly in conveying technical information, documenting processes, and adapting to fast-paced environments.

Bonus Points

• Experience supporting GitOps-based deployment workflows and tools such as ArgoCD.
• Familiarity with cost optimization practices, including tagging strategies, rightsizing, and resource usage analysis.
• Exposure to security-focused automation, such as secrets management, policy enforcement, or vulnerability/scanning workflows.
• Experience writing scripts or lightweight tooling in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.

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 2K.com accounts.