Senior DevOps Programmer

Skip to Main Content # Senior DevOps Programmer **Bethesda Game Studios** @ Rockville, MD, US \| Austin, TX, US \| Dallas, TX, US Engineering/Programming ## 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** As **Senior DevOps Programmer**, you will… - Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure to support Bethesda Game Studios games. Including both services for the games and services to support development of the games - Provide technical leadership within the group - Code review 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’ve 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 are an expert at 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 previous experience in building and maintaining AI/ML platform services in the cloud - You possess a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience - You are certified in Basic Security Principles 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 **AI/ML Platform Services (AI DevOps)** - Azure based AI services experience but other major cloud equivalents acceptable - Training configuration and job orchestration - Knowledge of distributed training frameworks - Need to understand AI/ML pipelines from the operational perspective - Familiarity with RAG architectures (Retrieval Augmented Generation) - Bonus: Azure Foundry, Azure Open AI, or Azure Cognitive Search **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 principles, 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 hosts 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 ## Salary Range Senior DevOps Programmer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $105,000 - $225,000 per year. ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time. At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others. _This is 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. Apply Online ## What to Expect Submit to a Position You will receive an automated email confirming we have received your resume. Due to the high volume of applications received, it's not possible for us to respond directly to each candidate. Don't see your desired position listed? Apply under "General Application" instead! Recruiter Call If you are selected, you will be contacted by our team for an initial phone screen to chat about your previous experience. You may go through one or two phone interviews, and possibly a follow-up Skype call. If your qualifications do not match the criteria of a current position, your resume will be kept on file. Site Visit The next step will be an invitation to come out and meet the team at the studio for onsite interviews. 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