At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Austin
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- The Senior Site Reliability Engineer at 2K is a hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping production infrastructure across AWS and on-premises VMware environments.
- This role involves setting technical direction, improving system reliability from architecture review through production, and closing the gap between engineering output and player experience.
- The SRE team owns the infrastructure behind every player connection, including game services, account platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and databases.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate scalable hybrid infrastructure across AWS and VMware vSphere using Terraform and Puppet.
- Own the full lifecycle of EC2 fleets and VMware clusters including capacity planning, patching, and image pipelines.
- Architect secure, resilient AWS networking including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and Route 53.
- Operate and automate F5 BIG-IP load balancers and firewalls including LTM, AFM, and global traffic management.
- Operate MySQL and PostgreSQL at production scale, managing replication, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Build and run the full observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
- Define SLI/SLO/error budget policies and lead chaos engineering and failover exercises.
- Eliminate toil through self-service provisioning, automated remediation, and intelligent scaling.
- Harden CI/CD pipelines and build security into the platform layer through secrets management and IAM.
- Promote SRE practices across 2K studios through reliability reviews, runbooks, and embedded collaboration.
Requirements
- 5+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering or equivalent infrastructure work at production scale.
- Deep AWS experience: EC2, VPC networking, IAM, RDS/Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB and CloudWatch.
- Strong VMware vSphere experience: ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and/or NSX, plus bare-metal server operations.
- Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP load balancers and firewalls including iRules, SSL/TLS offload and HA pairs.
- Production experience running MySQL and PostgreSQL, including replication, HA/failover, backup, and performance tuning.
- Strong IaC skills with Terraform and hands-on experience with Packer.
- Deep Puppet experience (modules, Hiera, r10k/Code Manager, PuppetDB), plus Ansible and AWS Systems Manager.
- Experience with observability tools: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
- Fluency with SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
- Production-quality code in Go, Python or TypeScript for tools, automation and internal libraries.
Preferred qualifications
- Live-service game or large-scale consumer internet experience with millions of concurrent users.
- Database reliability engineering at scale: sharding, read-replica fleets and Aurora Global Database.
- F5 automation experience (AS3, Declarative Onboarding, iControl REST) and multi-site global load balancing.
- Experience migrating workloads between VMware and AWS.
- FinOps and managing resources at cloud scale.
- Experience with AI and agentic development.
- Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Database Specialty, VMware VCP-DCV, F5 Certified Administrator, or Puppet Professional.
- Experience mentoring SREs or leading reliability working groups.
Workplace
- Hybrid role
- Located in Austin
Skills
- AWS
- VMware vSphere
- Terraform
- Puppet
- F5 BIG-IP
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Go
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- Python
- TypeScript
- Ansible
