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The Xbox Game Studios Publishing team responsible for the recently released Ninja Gaiden 4, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Ori and the Will of the Wisps is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer. This is a rare opportunity to join a creative and motivated team of people, develop exciting new projects, and take advantage of the newest technology available with backing and support from across Microsoft. Join the team driving world-class game development that sets the standard for entertainment across a growing family of devices including Xbox and Windows. Our team is responsible for building and operating the services and websites that power our games – whether they were released years ago or have yet to be announced. We’re looking for a platform engineer with extensive experience building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale, highly available, secure-by-default web services and websites.
Job Responsibility:
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for cloud-hosted game services and websites, with a specific focus on improving security across our portfolio
Develop effective and reusable monitoring and alerting to achieve high availability
Design and implement processes to securely maintain and update infrastructure across our portfolio
Collaborate with the team to address security incidents and initiative-driven change requests as they arise
Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Proven experience developing and operating Kubernetes clusters and applications deployed on them
Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others)
Experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tools
Operational experience with an observability stack, preferably Prometheus and Grafana
Development experience with CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps or others)
Development experience with ASP.NET Core service, Go/Python, and Kusto Query Language
Understanding and experience with operating REST services
Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts
Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache
History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming