Live Operations Analyst

2 Months ago • 2 Years + • Operations • Systems Design

Job Summary

Job Description

The Live Operations Technical Analyst at Epic Games responds to issues impacting products and users, analyzing incident data, identifying trends, and determining corrective actions. Responsibilities include participating in post-incident reviews, readiness programs, and product launches. This role requires expertise in incident management processes, working with telemetry and monitoring systems, developing operational excellence workflows, and guiding development teams on service ownership. The position involves an on-call rotation and a focus on improving incident management processes and tooling. A service-owner mentality is embraced, requiring process, tool, system, and service development.
Must have:
  • 2+ years supporting live product launches
  • Incident management process expertise
  • Effective cross-functional communication
  • Experience with visualization tools and metrics
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments
  • Customer advocacy
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision, LTD, life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

LIVEOPS

What We Do

The Epic LiveOps team provides the best possible experience for our players. We dive deep into the data to understand player needs, minimize disruption, and manage Epic's incident response process.

What You'll Do

As a Live Operations Technical Analyst, you will respond to problems that impact our products and users. Part of this role is analyzing incident data, identifying trends, and determining corrective actions that need to be taken to drive improvements. You will participate in post-incident reviews, readiness programs, and product launches. This role is expected to have breadth over depth, but depth in major incident management processes. At Epic, we embrace a Service-Owner mentality (you build it, you run it). In this role, we are stewards of operational excellence and service owners. We develop processes, tools, systems, and services.

In this role, you will

  • Operate and continually improve major incident management processes and tooling, from initial identification through to resolution and influencing systems design principles across the company
  • Participate in an on-call rotation that extends coverage in assisting and supporting service owners during off-hours
  • Interface with telemetry and monitoring systems to understand the health of critical business services
  • Contribute to systems and services that help us with operational excellence and automated workflows
  • Develop best practices across our organization and tools that help us distribute those
  • Guide development teams on understanding systems and helping them be successful with service ownership
  • Guide service owners in risk reduction and major launch preparation

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience supporting launches of a live, public product
  • Incident management process expertise
  • Effective communication skills and experience working in a cross-functional organization
  • General comfort working with visualization tools and metrics
  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • You have a knack for customer advocacy

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (excluding CA, NY, & WA).

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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About The Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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