Technical Artist: DevOps

14 Hours ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Technical Artist: DevOps will provide development support for the Technical Art team, focusing on maintaining and improving existing software and infrastructure systems, resolving bugs, and implementing new features. Responsibilities include maintaining automation and scripting solutions, applying software engineering best practices, collaborating with other teams, configuring and maintaining DevOps tools, and providing detailed documentation. The role requires strong technical skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment within a team.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in Gaming/VFX/IT or software development
  • Strong understanding of Windows and Linux systems and command line.
  • Experience with distributed or containerized systems.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Good to have:
  • Deeper understanding of Kubernetes, databases, HA systems, etc.
  • Extensive knowledge about tools like Sentry, Clickhouse, etc.
  • Experience with setting up system backups, tests and disaster recovery.
  • Experience managing highly sensitive data with an emphasis on security measures.
  • Ability to test and examine code written by others and analyse results.

Job Details

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. 

Rockstar is on the lookout for passionate and talented individual who can provide development support for our Technical Art team to support our titles.

This is a full-time, permanent and in-office position based in Rockstar’s unique game development studio in the heart of London. 

WHAT WE DO

  • We deliver mostly 3rdparty software and infrastructure systems to all our Tech Art internal teams.  
  • Maintain our current systems, review and identify areas of improvements.
  • Work daily with our production team to quickly resolve bugs and provide solutions/requested features/ideas form the other developing teams.
  • Help other developing teams to migrate to our systems and use them in the most productive way
  • We are a team mostly situated in NYC, and we work closely together with IT and other Tech Art teams to provide the fastest and best solutions for other TA developers to achieve their goals to the highest and latest standards. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Maintain and support automation and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility and efficiency on projects that are needed in production. 
  • Apply software engineering best practices across projects, utilizing modern best practices.  
  • Collaborate with other teams to gather information during troubleshooting. 
  • Provides expertise to configure and maintain DevOps tools, to maintain preventive rather than reactive workflow. 
  • Provide a detailed documentation of setups we implement to facilitate the onboarding of new teams and maintenance of the systems.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in the field of Gaming/VFX/IT or software development.
  • Strong understanding of Windows and Linux systems and command line. 
  • Experience with distributed or containerized systems and microservices architecture.
  • Experience with data management and processing.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages, such as bash/Python/Javascript/C#/Rust. 

SKILLS

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to work as part of a team or individually as required. 
  • Excellent documentation skills with high attention to detail. 
  • Ability to handle high pressure situations as well as prioritizing the tasks. 
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills. 
  • Experience with Agile methodologies.
  • Openness to learn and develop outside the current scope of knowledge. 
  • Ability to shift focus based on support needs.
  • Passionate about DevOps methodology and “infrastructure as code”. 
  • Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows server configuration (Win 11+/Ubuntu 20.04+ and Ansible). 
  • Basic knowledge of Linux and Windows server administration (networking and Active Directory, certificates). 
  • Container administration and configuration (Docker and k8s administration). 
  • Understanding of metrics, monitoring, alerting and dashboarding concept. (ELK, Grafana). 
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins/Airflow/ArgoCD).
  • Experience with databases (MongoDB, Postgres, Redis). 
  • Strong programming skills in Bash, Python, Javascript. 
  • Experience with version control systems (Git Hub, Perforce) 
  • Experience with message queue system Kafka 

PLUSES

  • Deeper understanding of Kubernetes, as well as databases, HA systems, Kafka, etc. 
  • Extensive knowledge about tools such as: Sentry, Clickhouse, PowerShell, Hashicorp Vault, Memgraph
  • Experience with setting up system backups, tests and disaster recovery.
  • Experience managing highly sensitive data with an emphasis on security measures.
  • Ability to test and examine code written by others and analyse results. 
  • Experience with service mesh (Cilium preferable). 

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills above. If we would like to move forward with your application, a Rockstar recruiter will reach out to you to explain next steps and guide you through the process.

Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect. In line with this commitment, Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles. If you need more information about Rockstar’s reasonable accommodation policies or process, or need to request an accommodation, please contact the Human Resources Department. 

If you’ve got the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

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Join a tight-knit team responsible for creating and publishing some of the most popular, innovative and critically acclaimed interactive entertainment in the world including the Grand Theft Auto series, the Red Dead series and many more.


Known for our dedication to quality and authenticity, a career at Rockstar Games is an opportunity to work on some of the most cutting edge, creatively rewarding and challenging projects available in any entertainment medium with some of the most talented people in the industry.


We offer successful candidates highly competitive salary and compensation packages, including a comprehensive benefits package for all eligible employees. Rockstar Games is an equal opportunity employer.

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