Devops & Release Engineer

Main Context

Join at a pivotal moment as we kick off the pre-production of a new ambitious AA PC/Console project.

Your mission will be to design and build the foundations of our build, CI/CD, and release ecosystem from the ground up—ensuring that as the project scales, teams can turn code into stable, playable builds quickly, reliably, and at production scale.

What it means on a daily basis

You'll own the CI/CD backbone of our Unreal Engine production pipeline, bringing DevOps rigor to game build engineering — treating pipelines as code, infrastructure as a product, and reliability as a metric to track, not an accident.

• Design and industrialize Unreal Engine CI/CD pipelines (build, cook, package, deploy) across PC, Console, and Mobile, with reproducibility and idempotency as first-class requirements
• Architect and scale a robust Internal Developer Platform on Kubernetes, leveraging Helm and containerized microservices to deploy highly available web tools and studio services outside the core engine
• Implement automated quality gates to shift issue detection left in the pipeline, before builds break downstream
• Optimize Perforce as critical infrastructure (streams, workspaces, sync performance), and operate a hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + cloud) with an SRE mindset — uptime, latency, and cost/performance trade-offs guiding decisions on Horde and Zen Server
• Develop internal tooling and self-service capabilities that reduce developer friction, and drive release engineering (branching, promotion, versioning, rollback readiness)

What success will look like

Success shows up as invisible infrastructure — teams shipping faster without thinking about the platform underneath, because it just works.

• Builds are fast, reliable, and predictable across all platforms, with build time and failure rate tracked as core KPIs
• Developers self-serve playable builds and internal tools through a frictionless, well-documented golden path
• CI/CD pipelines and the Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform scale under production load without breaking, backed by proactive capacity and cost monitoring
• Studio web tools and services run highly available, with clear ownership and minimal manual intervention
• Release processes are stable, auditable, and traceable, with full build provenance and rollback capability across

Who you would be working with

• Game developers (programmers, technical artists)
• QA teams
• Production teams
• Technical leadership (Tech Director, Leads)

Who you are

You think in systems, not scripts — someone who's as comfortable debugging a Perforce sync bottleneck as they are arguing for a better branching strategy in a release review.

• Solid experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in a game production context (Unreal Engine strongly preferred), ideally across multiple platforms (PC, Console, Mobile)
• Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code, hybrid cloud/on-prem environments, and an SRE mindset — you reach for metrics and monitoring before you reach for guesses
• Hands-on with Perforce at scale, and familiar with tools like Horde, Zen Server, or equivalent build/orchestration systems
• A builder at heart: you'd rather script away a recurring friction point than let developers work around it manually
• Pragmatic and collaborative — you know release engineering is a team sport, and you communicate trade-offs clearly to both engineers and production

Where this role can take you

• Technical ownership of a critical production system at studio level
• Evolution toward Staff / Principal DevOps or Platform Lead roles
• Strategic impact on how games are built and shipped