Senior DevOps Programmer

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development • $117,000 PA - $204,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Programmer at Epic Games, you'll be instrumental in building and maintaining the infrastructure supporting Epic Games Services and products. This involves automating infrastructure provisioning, designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, setting up monitoring and alerting systems, ensuring system security (including PCI compliance), collaborating with development teams, troubleshooting issues, and continuously improving processes. You will work closely with programming, producer, QA, DBA, and product teams to provide online services that enhance the user experience for all of Epic’s systems. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline management, monitoring and alerting, security implementation, and collaboration with development teams.
Must have:
  • Linux & Cloud (AWS or similar)
  • Scripting (Java, Python, Shell)
  • HTTP services & networking
  • Database admin (NoSQL/SQL)
  • CI/CD experience
  • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Problem-solving & troubleshooting
  • Collaboration with development teams
Good to have:
  • E-commerce systems experience
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid benefits (employee & dependents)
  • Supplemental medical, dental, vision
  • Life & AD&D insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Retirement savings plan with employer match
  • EAP & mental well-being program

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.

PROGRAMMING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES

What We Do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is growing operations inside our development teams to support operations of our large-scale, highly available, secure, online services and infrastructure behind Epic Games and products. The person in this role will work closely with programming, producer, QA, DBA, and product teams to provide online services that enhance the user experience for all of Epic’s systems.

In this role, you will

  • Infrastructure Automation: Build and maintain automation scripts and tools to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure resources (e.g., servers, networks, databases)
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes
  • Monitoring and Alerting: Set up monitoring tools to track system performance and proactively identify and resolve issues
  • Security: Ensure the security of our systems by implementing security best practices and using security tools, including the PCI environment operation
  • Collaboration: Work closely with programming teams to understand their needs and provide solutions to improve the software delivery process
  • Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve technical issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and application performance
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve our processes and tools to increase efficiency and reliability

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience with Linux and cloud computing technologies such as AWS or other cloud computing environment
  • Demonstrable scripting experience with a variety of scripting languages for automating tasks, generating reports and creating tools (e.g. Java, Python, Shell, Microservice)
  • Experience with HTTP based services, networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS)
  • Experience with database administration: NoSQL/SQL (Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • Experience with a continuous delivery model of deploying software
  • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker)
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Proven history working directly with development teams
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Previous experience with e-commerce systems is a bonus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

British Columbia Base Pay Range
$171,622$251,712 CAD

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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