Microsoft Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes 

United States, Washington 

371552034

The Xbox Game Studios Publishing (XGSP)for the recently releasedAra: History UntoldAs Dusk FallsOri and the Will of the WispsTell Me Whyis seeking a Senior Platform Engineer- Kubernetes.

is responsible forbuilding andthe services and websites that power our games – whether they were released years ago or have yet to be announced.looking for a platform engineer withexperience building andthe cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale,highly available, secure-by-default web services and websites.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to,C#, Python, Go
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience developing and operating Kubernetes clusters and applications deployed on them.
• Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others).
• Operational Excellence with an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc.) and automation experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Kubernetes cloud management operators.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CI/CD pipeline development experience (Azure DevOps or others).
• Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts.
• ASP.NET Core service development experience.
• Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache.
• Experience using the Kusto Query Language.
• Demonstrable experience with Go/Python.
• History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellentverbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of and experience with operating REST services.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Build andmaintaininfrastructure-as-code for cloud-hosted game services and websites, with a specific focus on improving security across our portfolio.

• Develop effective and reusable monitoring and alerting to achieve high availability.

• Design and implement processes to securelymaintainand update infrastructure across our portfolio.

• Collaborate with the team to address security incidents and initiative-driven change requests as they arise.

• Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures.

• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.