About the Role
Aspyr is seeking an Engineering Manager - Infrastructure to lead and mentor a team focused on CI/CD pipelines and related cloud and on-premises infrastructure. This hands-on management role involves balancing team leadership with individual contributor work, including coding and technical problem-solving, to optimize build and distribution pipelines for multiple game titles.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor the infrastructure team, fostering a culture of best practices, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Manage the team's contribution to the development of a pipeline that spans from code submission and validation, through full product build, and finally to artifact storage and distribution.
- Own the technical roadmap for build, release, and infrastructure systems, including prioritization, modernization, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Drive optimization efforts across the pipeline to reduce build times and infrastructure costs.
- Collaborate effectively with Engineers, Designers, Artists, and IT to align infrastructure goals with product needs.
- Ensure the infrastructure supports globally distributed teams and partners, as both contributors to, and consumers of pipeline products.
- Target all relevant game platforms, including desktop, consoles, and mobile.
- Plan for and make recommendations for team growth and new roles to support infrastructure goals.
- Oversee the writing of clear architecture and user documentation for developed systems.
- Monitor key metrics such as build times, build success rates, and failure analysis, and champion solutions for continuous improvement.
- Manage the team's participation in the on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortem processes.
- Oversee the operational health, deployment, and lifecycle management for all infrastructure services and systems owned by the engineering team.
- Provide security oversight in correlation with IT around access control systems like Perforce and build access.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide performance feedback, support career development, manage priorities, and help grow team capability.
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience
- 8+ years software engineering and/or DevOps experience
- Experience with incident management, post mortem and moving from a reactive team to a proactive team
- Extensive knowledge of cloud compute and storage platforms, including AWS
- Experience with configuration management and deployment of cloud compute nodes
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or TeamCity
- Experience with Perforce
- Experience leading small engineering teams
- Extensive experience with scripting languages (Python, batch, bash, etc.)
- Experience with the architecture and design of complex, large-scale systems
- Proven expertise in automation and scripting to streamline infrastructure operations
- Strong understanding of first-party platform dynamics, guidelines, submission processes and tools (e.g., Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo)
- Game DevOps experience
- Unreal Engine Horde / Gauntlet experience
Skills
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- On-premises infrastructure
- Software build automation
- Distribution pipeline optimization
- Technical leadership
- Mentoring
- Team management
- Roadmap ownership
- Cost efficiency
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Global team support
- Platform targeting (desktop, console, mobile)
- Documentation
- Metrics monitoring
- Incident response
- On-call rotation management
- Operational health oversight
- Security oversight
- Performance feedback
- Career development support
- Configuration management
- Scripting languages (Python, batch, bash)
- Automation
- First-party platform processes
- Unreal Engine Horde / Gauntlet
Location
- In-person/in-office only
Work Type
- In-person
- In-office
Experience Level
- Engineering management experience
- Software engineering experience
- DevOps experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent hands-on professional experience
- Degree in Computer Science or Math, or equivalent experience
About the Company
- Aspyr is a leading game publisher and developer, bringing the world's biggest franchises and bold new projects to players everywhere.
- Since 1996, we’ve published over 200 games and our team is dedicated to bringing beloved franchises like Tomb Raider and Star Wars to new and familiar audiences across all platforms.
- We focus on collaboration and creativity, crafting high-quality, engaging games that leave a lasting impact on players worldwide.
Equal Opportunity
- Aspyr is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
- All employment decisions at Aspyr are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
- Aspyr will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
- Aspyr encourages applicants of all ages.
