ZeniMax Media · 11 hours ago
Senior DevOps Programmer
Rockville, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$105K/yr - $225K/yr
5+ years expZeniMax Media Inc. is home to Bethesda Game Studios, known for their award-winning games like Starfield and The Elder Scrolls. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Programmer to architect, build, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure to support their games, while providing technical leadership and mentoring junior team members.
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Responsibilities
Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure to support Bethesda Game Studios games. Including both services for the games and services to support development of the games
Provide technical leadership within the group
Code review and mentor more junior team members
Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives
Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools
Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary
Qualification
Required
You have previous experience building and architecting distributed applications in a multi-cloud (preferably AWS and Azure) enterprise environment using IaC and modern containerization systems
You have 5+ years of engineering experience deploying virtual machines, containers, applications, and dependent infrastructure to AWS or Azure
You've been responsible for coding and/or reviewing the code for most of the Skills listed below (see 'What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.)
You have significant programming experience beyond just scripting
You are an expert at cloud configuration management solutions
You have previous on call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently
You have previous experience in building and maintaining AI/ML platform services in the cloud
You possess a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
You are certified in Basic Security Principles in at least one cloud platform
You are certified in Cloud Account Administration in at least one cloud platform
Preferred
Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Ability to develop towards Azure using a multi-cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback to AWS
Ability to develop towards hybrid datacenter and cloud platforms
Expertise in strengths and weakness of solutions offered by each cloud provider
Azure based AI services experience but other major cloud equivalents acceptable
Training configuration and job orchestration
Knowledge of distributed training frameworks
Need to understand AI/ML pipelines from the operational perspective
Familiarity with RAG architectures (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
Bonus: Azure Foundry, Azure Open AI, or Azure Cognitive Search
Proficiency in using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager for automating cloud infrastructure
Ability to build and maintain multi-cloud and data center hybrid IaC solutions for complex enterprise environments
Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements for multi-cloud environments
Knowledge of GDPR in relation to multi-cloud/hybrid architectures
Knowledge of key management, access controls, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City
Expertise branch management
Ability to automate deployments and manage cloud environments efficiently
Expertise in Cloud Imaging and Configuration tools like Salt, Packer, Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet
Knowledge of network concepts and topologies such as VNET/VPCs, interconnect vs. ExpressRoute, DirectConnect, MegaPort, and load balancers
Understanding of hybrid cloud networking and secure data flows between different cloud environments
Skills in managing data repositories and movement across cloud platforms, such as Synapse, Redshift, and Kafka
Database Administration basics for different database types (MySQL and derivatives and Mongo and derivatives)
Bonus: SQL
Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) integration, policy management, and chargeback/categorization/tagging mechanisms
Experience with open-source frameworks, operating systems, and containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, AKS, and Kubernetes
Expertise in Python, Bash, and/or Powershell
More than just scripting knowledge that includes algorithmic and OO principles, asynchronous programming and language best practices, frameworks, and fundamentals
Bonus: GoLang and/or C++
Package management
Skills in API lifecycle management, proxies, and integration
Proficiency with cloud-based monitoring, alerting, and logging systems such as Splunk, Graphite, CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, Data Dog
Knowledge of best practices and costs impact of using these tools
Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux (mostly this) and Windows related issues
Ability to diagnose health of fleet of hosts or systems
Proficiency with account and authorization management
Familiarity with storage management and file systems
You have built and architected major game systems for a AAA service-based game
Benefits
Healthcare benefits
401(k) plan and company match
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
Paid vacation time
Paid sick and mental health time
Several paid holidays
Company
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax creates and publishes original interactive entertainment content for consoles, the PC, and handheld/wireless devices.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$574.9MKey Investors
Providence Equity PartnersSBS
2020-09-21Acquired
2010-10-06Private Equity· $150M
2009-07-07Debt Financing· $105M
Leadership Team
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Denise Kidd
SVP, Finance & Controller
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