GameStop

Staff Engineer, Cloud & TechOps

GameStop$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong background in IT infrastructure design and management
  • Experience in data-driven cost optimization
  • Skilled in managing large-scale infrastructure projects
  • Excellent decision-making and collaborative abilities
  • Prior experience in retail or e-commerce infrastructure
  • Mastery of cloud platforms like AWS and DevOps methodologies
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI systems for automation

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and optimization of GameStop's infrastructure
  • Ensure systems meet established performance SLAs
  • Manage design and optimization of Kubernetes clusters
  • Quickly identify and resolve complex cloud incidents
  • Operate autonomously and lead cross-functional collaboration
  • Design and maintain AI systems for intelligent infrastructure workflows

Benefits

  • Onsite work environment 5 days a week in Grapevine, TX
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure projects
  • Involvement in cross-functional team collaboration
  • Engagement with advanced technologies like agentic AI
  • Focus on performance-driven infrastructure management
Full Job Description
As the Staff Engineer, Cloud & TechOps , you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing GameStop's IT infrastructure. You will ensure our systems and applications meet performance standards, reliability, and scalability, aligning infrastructure strategies with business objectives.

This position sits onsite 5 days a week in Grapevine, TX.

Key Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Design & Oversight: Lead the design and optimization of GameStop's infrastructure, leveraging your deep technical expertise to build scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.
  • Performance Management: Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure all systems and applications meet established performance SLAs.
  • Kubernetes Management: Lead design, optimization, and management of the various Kubernetes clusters, ensuring efficient use of resources.
  • Incident Investigation: Use deep knowledge of cloud platforms to quickly identify and resolve complex cloud incidents.
  • Independent & Collaborative Work: Operate autonomously, applying independent thought and decision-making, while also effectively leading cross-functional collaboration on complex projects.
  • Agentic AI & Infrastructure Automation: Design, implement, and maintain agentic AI systems for self-healing workflows, intelligent capacity planning, automated incident response, and infrastructure-as-code generation.


Required Qualifications

  • Technical Expertise: Strong background in IT infrastructure design, implementation, and management, with an architect-level understanding of network, storage, cloud, and server architecture.
  • Experience in Cost Optimization: Proven experience utilizing data to identify and work cross-organizationally to drive the implementation of cost-saving opportunities.
  • Project Management: Skilled in managing large-scale infrastructure projects, with a focus on performance outcomes and service level agreements.
  • Communication & Decision-Making: Excellent interpersonal and decision-making abilities, able to work independently while also fostering a collaborative environment.
  • Prior experience in retail or e-commerce infrastructure management.
  • Mastery of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and DevOps methodologies.
  • Agentic AI Experience: Hands-on experience with agentic AI systems for infrastructure automation (AI-driven runbook execution, LLM-based ops tooling, autonomous remediation pipelines).


About GameStop

GameStop Corp. is a Fortune 500 company and a global retailer of multichannel video game, pop culture collectibles, consumer electronics and wireless services, operating more than 5,000 stores in 10 countries across Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States. The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, United States, and employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. GameStop's retail network and family of brands include GameStop, EB Games, ThinkGeek and Micromania-Zing. The company also operates Game Informer, a leading video game magazine and website, and Simply Mac, an authorized Apple reseller and repairer. GameStop reported revenue of $6.5 billion in fiscal year 2019.
Learn more about GameStop
Size
12,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$274.8 million
Founded
1996
5 Year Trend
-5.5%
Revenue
$5.1 billion
NASDAQ

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