Wizards of the Coast (Skeleton Key studio) is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer for its Central Technology Build Engineering team. You will develop and curate an Unreal Engine ecosystem that serves internal game studios, designing and running scalable AWS architectures as the backbone for deploying build systems and tools.
What You'll Do
- Design a ready-made, cloud-first suite of Unreal Engine build systems and tooling.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code to ensure consistency and repeatability.
- Support ongoing AWS operations for build infrastructure.
- Support and administer studio-specific Perforce environments.
- Work with studio teams to optimize systems for cost, scale, and latency.
- Define standards and best practices for performance, observability, and maintainability of build pipelines.
- Act as a technical partner and mentor to studio engineers, helping teams adopt and extend shared systems effectively.
- Innovate with emerging build technologies, cloud and AI.
What We're Looking For
- A fundamental understanding of cloud solution design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed caching, containers, networking, IAM, etc.) and creating solutions in AWS.
- Exceptional experience with infrastructure as code development (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform) and gitops practices.
- Administration experience or expert knowledge with Perforce.
- 3+ years of software development experience including compiled programs (such as C#, Golang, or TypeScript) and scripting (such as Bash, Python, JavaScript).
- Strong ability to build trust and clarity in communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Exposure to Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Unreal or other game engines.
Technical Stack
- AWS, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, Perforce, C#, Golang, TypeScript, Bash, Python, JavaScript, Unreal Engine
Team & Environment
You will join the Central Technology Build Engineering team, collaborating closely with game development teams.
Wizards of the Coast is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
