Cloud Systems Engineer II

TL;DR

Cloud Systems Engineer II (AWS/GCP): Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP with an accent on infrastructure-as-code, automation tooling, and CI/CD pipeline design. Focus on building reliable cloud-native systems with strong Linux, networking, and container/Kubernetes foundations, including on-call support and post-incident improvements.

Location: Austin, Texas

Company

hirify.global Interactive Software develops and publishes interactive entertainment through Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga.

What you will do

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP using cloud-native best practices.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, including writing, reviewing, and enforcing IaC standards.
• Build automation tooling and internal platforms using Python to reduce manual toil.
• Design and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitHub workflows.
• Monitor performance and availability, participate in on-call rotation, and run post-incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Collaborate with development, security, and networking teams; mentor engineers and maintain technical documentation/runbooks/ADRs.

Requirements

• Hands-on cloud engineering experience with significant depth in AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC) and working knowledge of GCP.
• Terraform experience: write Terraform modules, manage state, enforce policy, and review IaC PRs.
• Python for scripting and automation; ability to write clean, tested, maintainable code.
• Linux system administration and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls), plus container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Strong CI/CD principles and experience building or maintaining delivery pipelines.
• Experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization in cloud-native environments.

Nice to have

• Configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CheckMK, or equivalent).
• Service mesh or advanced networking patterns (e.g., AWS Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, GCP VPC peering).
• Experience in gaming, media, or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive industries.
• FinOps/cost management tooling experience in large AWS environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical (HSA & FSA), dental, vision, and 401(k) with company match; employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off including 14 paid holidays per calendar year and paid vacation (15–25 days) plus up to 10 paid sick days.
• On-site wellness support and wellbeing programs for mental health; fitness allowance and wellness-related reimbursements.
• Learning and development opportunities, commuter benefits, and employee discounts/free games & events.
• In-house wellness program and charitable giving platform with company match.

Hiring process

• Interviews and evaluation steps are conducted by hirify.global’s in-house recruitment team using official company email addresses.
• No job offers or interviews are conducted via third-party messaging apps.