ENGINEERING - UNREAL ENGINE
What We Do
Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
What You'll Do
As part of a small globally distributed team of infrastructure engineers, you'll support existing UCS services (such as Unreal Editor for Fortnite, RealityScan, MetaHuman Creator ,Twinmotion andUnreal Revision Control ) and design/deploy new cloud systems which will help shape the future of collaborative content creation.
In this role, you will
Design, build and maintain cloud architectures which host some of Epic's most exciting projects at global scale
Provide cloud expertise to backend software developers to help create cloud-native services together
Write infrastructure automation scripts which integrate with Unreal Engine
Create, troubleshoot and write runbooks for infrastructure alerts
Be given opportunities to contribute to application source code
Keep our CI/CD systems humming along
Participate in a light-weight on-call rotation, alongside the entire UCS cloud team
What we're looking for
Solid skills with and experience using terraform, AWS, Linux Administration and git
Experience designing and deploying cloud systems, you can quickly conceptualize high-level cloud infrastructure designs from given requirements and deliver with minimal oversight
An understanding of the realities of software development and the needs of software engineers
An expert in writing code at a level suitable for infrastructure automation purposes, ideally in bash and/or python
Good working knowledge and recent experience using AWS architecture - EC2, IAM, S3, RDS etc
Experience with containerisation,(with a good grasp of the fundamentals) and configuring, maintaining (and potentially extending) CI/CD systems
Experience leveraging observability systems to help extract a signal from noise and have an opinion on best practices for monitoring, logging and tracing
Ability to reason on different infrastructure design approaches with an understanding of trade-offs and non-functional attributes - performance / scalability / reliability / security / maintainability
Excellent written and spoken English with great interpersonal skills
Ability to mentor others on infrastructure engineering best practices
Bonus points for experience in managing Windows Server fleets in the Cloud
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
