Lead Engineer, Dev Ops - WWE 2K

Location: Remote in the United States and British Columbia, Canada. US hiring is listed for all states except Washington, with a separate Washington compensation range.

Salary: $138,600–$194,063 per year in California and Washington; $124,800–$174,708 per year in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Colorado; C$118,300–C$165,000 per year in British Columbia.

Company

Visual Concepts is a game development studio within hirify.global, creating multi-platform titles including the WWE hirify.global series.

What you will do

• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment automation.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of development and production environments.
• Build automation and tooling that improve developer workflows, documentation, and support.
• Establish standards for deployments, environments, observability, and operations.
• Collaborate with studio partners to improve cross-team workflows and processes.
• Lead the DevOps technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Perforce, Jenkins, Git, and automated build systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, containerized environments, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tools such as Puppet.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, architectural design patterns, C, C++, C#, Windows, Linux, Python, PowerShell, Bash, and the .NET ecosystem.
• Ability to combine technical depth with cross-team collaboration, clear communication, and alignment in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-platform software projects, distributed teams, or multi-studio environments.
• Experience with React or Node.
• Experience using AI to enhance developer workflows.
• Shipped console game titles and enthusiasm for video games.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with independent, entrepreneurial, and diverse game development teams.
• Regular full-time employees may receive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage.
• Benefits may include paid holidays, vacation, sick days, parental and compassionate leave, and wellness support.
• Additional benefits may include family planning support, commuter benefits, fitness reimbursements, a 401(k) plan, and an employee stock purchase program.