What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer (Games) position at Skybound Entertainment?
Who We Are
We are Skybound.
We love creators. We love fans. We love thrilling games, indelible images and moving stories. Our roots are in comics, but our brands extend to video games, television, movies, merchandise, and live experiences. We take special pride in original tales, fresh characters, and diverse voices.
From well-known franchises to freshly-minted originals, we offer the chance to join brilliant creators shaping a new generation of entertainment in a concentrated, agile environment where every perspective matters, and any idea can create a breakthrough.
Opportunity
Skybound is looking for an experienced and passionate Development Operations Engineer to help build a thrilling new game franchise. DevOps Engineers are critical in ensuring the stability, scalability, and efficiency of game development infrastructure. From automating build pipelines to optimizing deployment processes, you will play a key role in enabling the team to deliver high-quality games efficiently.
As a Development Operations Engineer, you will work collaboratively with engineers, artists, and designers to maintain and enhance our development pipeline. You’ll develop and refine CI / CD workflows, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure seamless integration of tools and services. If you are looking for a team with exciting IPs and combat DNA, this may be the role for you!
Reports : This position will report to the Technical Director.
Responsibilities : Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :
- Develop, maintain, and optimize CI / CD pipelines for game builds and tools
- Manage and automate build, deployment, and release processes across multiple platforms
- Monitor and improve server infrastructure for online services and backend systems
- Work with engineers to improve performance, scalability, and security of development environments
- Maintain source control systems (Perforce, Git, etc.), including branching strategies and integrations
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development pipelines, ensuring minimal downtime
- Develop monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify system issues
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the efficiency of development workflows
Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Job Type : Regular, Full-Time
Salary Range : $120,000-$140,000
Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
Company Overview
Skybound is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. We are home to critically-acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible .
Skybound Games produces, publishes and distributes video and tabletop games across all genres, including the multi-million-unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. In addition to our wholly-owned franchises, we work with independent developers to foster and create original games with compelling characters and worlds, strong creator and artistic focus, and innovative approaches to engaging genres.
Invincible is one of Skybound's tentpole franchises (celebrating 20 years!) and spans the world of comic books, merchandise, video games, and the critically acclaimed adult animated television series on Prime Video. Now in its second season, the television show has consistently ranked as one of Prime Videos top-streamed series with a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on the groundbreaking comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, Invincible revolves around 18-year-old Mark Grayson, who’s just like every other guy his age—except his father is (or was) the most powerful superhero on the planet. Still reeling from Nolan’s betrayal in Season One, Mark struggles to rebuild his life as he faces a host of new threats, all while battling his greatest fear - that he might become his father without even knowing it.
The show stars Steven Yeun, with Sandra Oh, Zazie Beetz, Grey Griffin, Chris Diamantopoulos, Walton Goggins, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Mantzoukas, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Kevin Michael Richardson, Seth Rogen, and J.K. Simmons. Executive producers include Skybound's own Kirkman, David Alpert, and Margaret M. Dean.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.
Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
Salary : $120,000 - $140,000
