Senior Cloud Architect

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios is hiring a Senior Cloud Architect to design, implement, and manage cloud strategies and solutions. The role includes analyzing requirements, developing architecture plans, and ensuring optimal performance and security of cloud infrastructure.

As Senior Cloud Architect, you will…

• Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure to support Bethesda Game Studios games. This will include both services for the games and services to support development of the games
• Provide technical leadership within the infrastructure team
• Perform code reviews 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

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• 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 have 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 have significant experience using 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 a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• You are certified in Basic Security Principals in at least one cloud platform
• You are certified in Cloud Account Administration in at least one cloud platform

What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• Cloud Platform Proficiency:
  • 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 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  • 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.
• Security and Compliance:
  • 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)
• DevOps and Automation:
  • 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
• Networking and Connectivity:
  • 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 
• Data Management:
  • 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
• Operational Management:
  • Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) integration, policy management, and chargeback/categorization/tagging mechanisms
• Open Source and Containerization:
  • Experience with open-source frameworks, operating systems, and containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, AKS, and Kubernetes
• Programming
  • Expertise in Python, Bash, and/or Powershell
  • More than just scripting knowledge that includes algorithmic and OO principals, asynchronous programming and language best practices, frameworks, and fundamentals
  • Bonus: GoLang and/or C++
  • Package management
  • APIs and Integration - Skills in API lifecycle management, proxies, and integration
• Monitoring/Logging/Alerting
  • 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
• System Administration
  • Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux(mostly this) and Windows related issues
  • Ability to diagnose health of fleet of host or systems
  • Proficiency with account and authorization management
  • Familiarity with storage management and file systems

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

• You have built and architected major game systems for a AAA service-based game

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.