About the Role
Rockstar Games is seeking a passionate and talented Engineer to serve as the technical authority for cloud platforms, bridging emerging vendor capabilities with real-world production workflows. This role focuses on evaluating cloud platforms, supporting development teams through Proofs of Concept (POCs), helping transition successful experiments into production, and ensuring strong governance around security, cost, and data protection.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate enterprise cloud platforms and services for security, scalability, cost and enterprise fit.
- Maintain a catalogue of approved cloud platforms and usage patterns.
- Maintain documentation and support development teams in design and implementation of cloud-enabled workflows and architecture.
- Coordinate with Security, Operations, Infrastructure, as well as Development and Legal stakeholders on platform architecture decisions.
- Coordinate with Security to define guardrails around data handling, access control, logging, and auditing.
- Design and enforce cost controls such as quotas, usage limits and reporting.
- Educate teams on capabilities, limitations, and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience in cloud-native systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure architecture.
- Experience with automation tools including Git, Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible or similar.
- Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, or modern platform engineering practices.
- Experience in cloud-native system design and implementation.
- Experience integrating APIs and services into production environments.
- Strong grasp of enterprise security fundamentals.
Skills
- Cloud-native systems
- Cloud platforms
- Infrastructure architecture
- Automation tools (Git, Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible)
- Kubernetes
- Container orchestration
- Infrastructure automation
- Modern platform engineering practices
- Cloud-native system design
- API integration
- Enterprise security fundamentals
- Games industry experience (Plus)
- AI and LLM platforms (Plus)
- AI governance (Plus)
- Platform risk assessment (Plus)
Location
- NYC headquarters
- Downtown Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-office
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000—$170,000 USD
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity awards
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other benefits
About the Company
- At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.
- Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
- The Rockstar Games Systems Engineering Team delivers global IT systems infrastructure to the development teams.
- We maintain our infrastructure to the highest standard, with an emphasis on preventative actions rather than reactive.
- Our team constantly reviews our processes with the aim of automating wherever possible.
Equal Opportunity
- Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect.
- Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process.
- We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
