TakeTwo Interactive Software

Cloud Systems Engineer II

TakeTwo Interactive Software$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Hands-on cloud engineering experience, particularly in AWS and GCP.
  • Proficiency in Terraform with the ability to manage infrastructure-as-code standards.
  • Strong Python scripting skills, focusing on clean and maintainable code.
  • Solid understanding of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals.
  • Experience with CI/CD principles and pipeline management.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical details clearly to diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience architecting for high availability and cost optimization in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
  • Manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
  • Develop automation tooling and internal platforms with Python.
  • Lead the design and improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Monitor system performance proactively and participate in on-call rotations.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess new cloud technologies.
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish coding standards.

Benefits

  • Great company culture focused on creativity and innovation.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Work-life balance with events and team-building activities.
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Generous paid time off and flexible leave policies.
Full Job Description
The Challenge

The Systems Engineering team crafts, builds, deploys and maintains a wide variety of IT infrastructure using the latest standards and technologies.

We are actively looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer with a broad range of systems infrastructure related and general purpose programming skills. Our ideal candidate has a rich and diverse technical background, is creative and passionate about IT systems, as well as standardization, optimization, and automation. Furthermore, this candidate will have experience architecting, engineering, implementing, and supporting large scale enterprise networks, storage, and system infrastructures in public and private cloud, and on-prem solutions to accommodate end-users, developers, and internal/external customers.

Candidates are expected to stay aware of industry changes and plan to keep ahead of industry advancements to help guide the use and implementation of technology at Take-Two.

What You'll Take On
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP, following cloud-native best practices.
  • Manage all infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, writing, reviewing, and enforcing IaC standards across the team.
  • Develop and maintain automation tooling and internal platforms using Python, reducing manual toil.
  • Lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitHub workflows..
  • Proactively monitor system performance and availability, participate in an on-call rotation and drive post incident reviews to improve reliability.
  • Collaborate closely with development, security, and networking teams to evaluate and adopt new cloud services and technologies.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, establishing standards for code quality.
  • Create and maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records.

What You Bring
  • Hands-on cloud engineering experience, with significant depth in AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, and more) and working knowledge of GCP.
  • Write terraform modules, manage state, enforce policy, and review IaC PRs.
  • Use GitHub for pull requests, branch strategy, actions workflows, and repository management..
  • Python is your primary scripting and automation language. You write clean, tested, maintainable code.
  • Proficiency with Linux system administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls), and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes / EKS).
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience building or maintaining delivery pipelines.
  • Experience architecting for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization in a cloud-native environment.
  • Communicate clearly to explain complex infrastructure topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.


Great to Have
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
  • Familiarity with observability stacks like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CheckMK, or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of service mesh or advanced networking patterns (e.g., AWS Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, GCP VPC peering).
  • Background in gaming, media, or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive industries.
  • Experience with cost management tooling and FinOps practices in large AWS environments.


What We Offer You
  • Great Company Culture. Ranked as one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
  • Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
  • Work Hard, Play Hard. Our employees bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles - through corporate boot camp classes, company parties, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
  • Benefits. Medical (HSA & FSA), dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan, commuter benefits, in-house wellness program, broad learning & development opportunities, a charitable giving platform with company match and more!
  • Perks. Fitness allowance, employee discount programs, free games & events and stocked pantries.


Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company's discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses. The use of Artificial Intelligence is not being used to screen candidates. The position is for an existing vacancy.

Please be aware that Take-Two does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Take-Two also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and the Company will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing exercise. Take-Two's in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a take2games.com email domain). If you need to report an issue or otherwise have questions, please contact [redacted]

About TakeTwo Interactive Software

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in New York City and founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993. The company owns two major publishing labels, Rockstar Games and 2K, which operate internal game development studios. Take-Two's portfolio includes numerous successful video game series across personal computer and video game consoles, including BioShock, Borderlands, Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, Red Dead, and XCOM. The company also owns 50% of professional esports organization NBA 2K League. Take-Two's headquarters are located in the Broadway Theater District of Midtown Manhattan.
Learn more about TakeTwo Interactive Software
Size
7,799 employees
Market Cap
$16.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$492.8 million
Founded
1993
5 Year Trend
+14.5%
Revenue
$3.2 billion
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