Cloud Systems Engineer

• The Systems Engineering team crafts, builds, deploys and maintains a wide variety of IT infrastructure using the latest standards and technologies
• We are actively looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer with a broad range of systems infrastructure related and general purpose programming skills. Our ideal candidate has a rich and diverse technical background, is creative and passionate about IT systems, as well as standardization, optimization, and automation
• Furthermore, this candidate will have experience architecting, engineering, implementing, and supporting large scale enterprise networks, storage, and system infrastructures in public and private cloud, and on-prem solutions to accommodate end-users, developers, and internal/external customers
• Candidates are expected to stay aware of industry changes and plan to keep ahead of industry advancements to help guide the use and implementation of technology at Take-Two
• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP, following cloud-native best practices
• Manage all infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, writing, reviewing, and enforcing IaC standards across the team
• Develop and maintain automation tooling and internal platforms using Python, reducing manual toil
• Lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitHub workflows.
• Proactively monitor system performance and availability, participate in an on-call rotation and drive post incident reviews to improve reliability
• Collaborate closely with development, security, and networking teams to evaluate and adopt new cloud services and technologies
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, establishing standards for code quality
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records

Benefits

• Medical (HSA & FSA)/Dental/Vision
• Game Release Events
• Company Parties, Monthly Socials, and Team Challenges
• Free Games
• Employee Discount Programs
• Fitness Allowance
• Charitable Giving Platform with Company Match
• Learning & Development
• In-House Wellness Program
• Commuter Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) with Company Match- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience building or maintaining delivery pipelines
• Proficiency with Linux system administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls), and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes / EKS)
• Hands-on cloud engineering experience, with significant depth in AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, and more) and working knowledge of GCP
• Experience architecting for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization in a cloud-native environment
• Communicate clearly to explain complex infrastructure topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Python is your primary scripting and automation language. You write clean, tested, maintainable code
• Use GitHub for pull requests, branch strategy, actions workflows, and repository management.
• Write terraform modules, manage state, enforce policy, and review IaC PRs
• Familiarity with observability stacks like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CheckMK, or equivalent
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
• Background in gaming, media, or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive industries
• Knowledge of service mesh or advanced networking patterns (e.g., AWS Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, GCP VPC peering)
• Experience with cost management tooling and FinOps practices in large AWS environments