Senior Programmer - Devops & Perforce (Game Creation)

Epic Games•Austin, TX

About The Position

WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE What We Do We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world. What You'll Do You’ll work on one of the largest and most demanding Perforce Helix Core deployments in the industry, supporting thousands of users and millions of files at scale. You’ll tackle complex programming challenges that come with operating source control at this level, while partnering closely with teams across Epic Games and with external studios and partners around the world. As one of Perforce’s largest customers, Epic collaborates directly with the Perforce programming team, giving you a unique opportunity to influence their product roadmap and help shape the future of source control tooling used across the industry.

Requirements

Experience deploying and maintaining environments with infrastructure as code approaches and tools (SCM/Git, Packer, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Salt, and leveraging CI/CD systems to get work done)
Experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
Understanding of Linux operating systems, OS performance tuning, troubleshooting, patching and patch management best practices
Expertise writing tools, scripting and automation in Bash/UNIX shell, Python
Excellent communicator with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and collaborate effectively across teams
Strong learning skills, able to quickly absorb new concepts, tools, and processes in a fast-paced environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with Perforce Helix, Git and their related server and client components in a large scale, and understanding of version control workflows is a big plus
Experience with other version control systems such as Git, and related code collaboration tools such as GitHub, and GitLab would be a plus
Highly organized, with the ability to manage priorities, track details, and deliver work reliably on time would be a plus

Responsibilities

Design and administer large, high performance Perforce Helix, and other SCM tools at a global scale with thousands of consumers worldwide
Perform deep troubleshooting of Perforce Helix server performance and database contention issues
Implement and maintain automation tools, user facing tools, documentation, and workflows to assist with system management
Manage and support permissions and identity integrations
Assist in disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives to ensure a protected and highly available implementation
Devise, test, and deploy integrations between Perforce products and other internal systems
Promoting adoption and best practices among the system user community and conducting user-training and help-sessions for new features or implementations

Benefits

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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