Senior DevOps Programmer

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios
, the award‑winning development team behind Starfield
, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout
. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well‑balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations:
Rockville, MD;
Montreal, Quebec;
Austin, TX;
Dallas, TX.

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

• Help architect, build, and maintain cloud‑based infrastructure to support Bethesda Game Studios games, including services for the games and services to support development of the games
• Provide technical leadership within the group
• Code review and mentor more junior team members
• Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools
• Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• You have previous experience building and architecting distributed applications in a multi‑cloud (preferably AWS and Azure) enterprise environment using IaC and modern containerization systems
• You have 5+ years of engineering experience deploying virtual machines, containers, applications, and dependent infrastructure to AWS or Azure
• You’ve been responsible for coding and/or reviewing the code for most of the Skills listed below (see “What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.”)
• You have significant programming experience beyond just scripting
• You are an expert at cloud configuration management solutions
• You have previous on‑call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently
• You have previous experience in building and maintaining AI/ML platform services in the cloud
• You possess a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• You are certified in Basic Security Principles in at least one cloud platform
• You are certified in Cloud Account Administration in at least one cloud platform

What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Cloud Platform Proficiency

• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
• Ability to develop toward Azure using a multi‑cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback to AWS

AI/ML Platform Services (AI Dev Ops)

• Azure based AI services experience but other major cloud equivalents acceptable
• Training configuration and job orchestration
• Knowledge of distributed training frameworks
• Need to understand AI/ML pipelines from the operational perspective
• Familiarity with RAG architectures (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Proficiency in using tools like Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, and Azure Resource Manager for automating cloud infrastructure
• Ability to build and maintain multi‑cloud and data center hybrid IaC solutions for complex enterprise environments.

Security and Compliance

• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements for multi‑cloud environments
• Knowledge of GDPR in relation to multi‑cloud/hybrid architectures
• Knowledge of key management, access controls, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Dev Ops and Automation

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City
• Expertise branch management
• Ability to automate deployments and manage cloud environments efficiently
• Expertise in Cloud Imaging and Configuration tools like Salt, Packer, Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet

Networking and Connectivity

• Knowledge of network concepts and topologies such as…