Job Title:

Cloud Engineer, Artifactory and Observability - Vancouver, BC

Requisition ID:

R026101

Job Description:

Your Mission The Activision Infrastructure team is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team in our offices in Vancouver, Canada. This team supports a variety of cloud workloads, and you will be instrumental in setting standards and supporting key technologies. You will help drive efficiencies for both cost and performance within Azure and the Google Cloud Platform.

We work on building a solid Cloud Platform made up of Kubernetes and a CI/CD pipeline utilizing GitHub, Artifactory, ArgoCD, Vault, and Grafana LGTM. We help internal development teams build successfully in the Cloud by providing templates and guidance for Helm, Crossplane, and security compliance.

Onsite: This role is an onsite work position, and the home studio for this role is Vancouver, BC.

What You Bring To The Table The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners. Therefore, this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Build a solid Cloud Platform for our internal development teams
• Architect and maintain our Artifact Repository in Azure, and its migration from Google Cloud
• Implement and maintain our Observability (Logging, Visualization/Grafana, Metrics) platform in Azure, and its migration from Google Cloud
• Utilize AI to improve the accessibility and usability of Monitoring data
• Implement monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance and resource utilization that identifies service disruptions
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve technical issues efficiently in a live production environment, and drive to quick resolutions, help with root cause diagnosis, and suggest improvements to prevent similar issues
• Participate in an on-call support rotation
• Consider security, sustainability, and supportability concerns with all work

Player Profile Experience Minimum Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience with at least one scripting language (e.g., Python/Golang)
• Design experience and manage developer artifacts and workflows using JFrog Artifactory
• Experience engineering large-scale metrics systems (e.g., Thanos, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics)
• Proficient in monitoring tools like Grafana LGTM stack and Prometheus Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
• Adept with logging tools like ELK, Loki, and Cloud Logging
• Experience with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
• Proficient in managing reproducible infrastructure, e.g., Infrastructure as Code

Knowledge & Skills

• Good working knowledge of source code control systems such as GitHub
• Solid knowledge of public cloud architecture concepts and practice (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Knowledge of system and/or application monitoring

Key Attributes

• Clear communication, and the ability to use it to support developers
• Problem solving skills and ability to search for and implement appropriate solutions

Extra Points

Experience

• Experience with Web servers/reverse proxies such as nginx and haproxy
• Adept with alerting tools such as PagerDuty
• Familiarity with AI LLMs and using their APIs
• Experience working/defecting tracking & Wiki systems such as Jira/Confluence

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of HashiCorp products like Vault, Consul, Terraform or similar products
• Clear understanding of Networking concepts (e.g., Firewalls, VPC, VPN, DNS, etc.)
• Knowledge of the use and maintenance of continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD systems

Your Platform Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our “press start” is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.

We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization.

We’re in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater — this could be your opportunity to level up.

Ready to Activate Your Future?

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Rewards We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Extended health plan, including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, for employees and their dependents, as well as disability insurance;
• RRSP with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other benefit programs like supplemental life & critical illness, legal service, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.

The standard base pay range for this role is $73,255.00 - $154,790.00 CAD. These values reflect the expected annualized base pay range of new hires in British Columbia, Canada. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.