Senior DevOps Engineer

Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day. If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!

Apply to join our new platform initiative and take ownership of building a centralized performance testing automation platform for games development. In this role, you will collaborate with developers, designers, and QA teams to design and deliver a unified system that aggregates performance data from multiple game engines, processes results, and clearly highlights performance issues. 

You will play a key role in defining the software architecture, database schemas, and overall system experience, while helping to track and visualize optimization progress over time. As this is a brand‑new platform with no prior internal equivalent, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape its foundations and influence how performance testing is approached across our game development teams. 

What you will do: 

• Develop and maintain a platform (applications, integrations and infrastructure) supporting gaming department

• Partner closely with software architects, game developers, QA, and operations to remove bottlenecks and improve delivery 

• Build and Maintain CI/CD Pipelines 

• Script repetitive tasks and develop self-service tools for developers 

• Design and manage infrastructure 

• Implement and manage containers, stand up and manage VMs 

• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting 

• Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, and reliable. 

We are looking for Engineers that: 

• Is fully self‑reliant and can take responsibility for future deliverables, 

• Value collaboration, knowledge sharing, and contributing to the team's overall effectiveness,  

• Equally enjoys coding applications and managing infrastructure 

• Keep up to date with modern web technologies,   

• Want to actively participate in decision making and fully understand products they work on,   

• Open to learn new programing languages, 

• Enjoy working in a team,   

• Easily and openly communicate in English.  

And on the technical side, we need: 

• 5+ years of experience in software development, build automation, delivery and deployment 

• Very good understanding of concepts like CI/CD, GitOps, configuration management, cloud platforms, version control, automation, monitoring, analytics, containerization, and microservices architecture 

• Proficient in coding in at least one programing language (preferred: Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, Python, C++/C#) 

• Experienced in code collaboration and proficient in Git, 

• Experienced in containers orchestration in Kubernetes, 

• Deep knowledge and practical experience managing Cloud infrastructure. OCI is a huge plus. 

• Experience standing up and maintaining Windows and Linux VMs 

• Bonus: hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 

• Bonus: hands-on experience scripting in BuildGraph 

• Bonus: hands-on experience in code collaboration using Perforce 

We keep our technologies up-to-date, and have a major impact on the tool set: 

• CI/CD & Automation: Horde, Jenkins, ArgoCD 

• Infrastructure & Platform: OCI, Terraform, Ansible 

• Containers & Virtualization: Kubernetes, Podman, Proxmox, KVM 

• Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic 

• Game Development: Unreal Engine 

• Source Control Management: Perforce, Git 

• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows