Take-Two Interactive
Cloud Systems Engineer II
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Who We Are:
Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. We develop and publish products principally through Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. Our strategy is to create hit entertainment experiences, delivered on every platform relevant to our audience through a variety of sound business models. Our pillars - creativity, innovation, and efficiency - guide us as we strive to create the highest quality, most captivating experiences for our consumers. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at http://www.take2games.com.
The Challenge:
The Systems Engineering team crafts, builds, deploys and maintains a wide variety of IT infrastructure using the latest standards and technologies. We are actively looking for a Systems Engineer with a broad range of systems infrastructure related and general purpose programming skills. Our ideal candidate has a rich and diverse technical background, is creative and passionate about IT systems, as well as standardization, optimization, and automation. Furthermore, this candidate will have experience architecting, engineering, implementing, and supporting large scale enterprise networks, storage, and system infrastructures in public and private cloud, and on-prem solutions to accommodate end-users, developers, and internal/external customers.
Candidates are expected to stay aware of industry changes and plan to keep ahead of industry advancements to help guide the use and implementation of technology at Take-Two.
What You’ll Take On:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP, following cloud-native best practices.
- Manage all infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, writing, reviewing, and enforcing IaC standards across the team.
- Develop and maintain automation tooling and internal platforms using Python, reducing manual toil.
- Lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitHub workflows.
- Proactively monitor system performance and availability, participate in an on-call rotation and drive post incident reviews to improve reliability.
- Collaborate closely with development, security, and networking teams to evaluate and adopt new cloud services and technologies.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, establishing standards for code quality.
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records.
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What You Bring :
- 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, with significant depth in AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, and more) and working knowledge of GCP.
- Write terraform modules, manage state, enforce policy, and review IaC PRs.
- Use GitHub for pull requests, branch strategy, actions workflows, and repository management.
- Python is your primary scripting and automation language. You write clean, tested, maintainable code.
- Proficiency with Linux system administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls), and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes / EKS).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience building or maintaining delivery pipelines.
- Experience architecting for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization in a cloud-native environment.
- Communicate clearly to explain complex infrastructure topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Great to Have:
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
- Familiarity with observability stacks like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CheckMK, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of service mesh or advanced networking patterns (e.g., AWS Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, GCP VPC peering).
- Background in gaming, media, or other high-throughput, latency-sensitive industries.
- Experience with cost management tooling and FinOps practices in large AWS environments.
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What We Offer You:
- Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
- Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
- Work Hard, Enjoy Life. Our employees’ bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles – through corporate boot camp classes, company parties, our Office gaming spaces, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
- Benefits. Benefits include, but are not limited to; Discretionary bonus, Provident fund contributions, 1+5 medical insurance + top up options and access to online Doctor consultation App, Employee assistance program, 3X CTC Life Assurance, 3X CTC Personal accident insurance, childcare services, 20 days holiday + statutory holidays,
- Perks. Gym reimbursement up to INR1150 per month, wellbeing program with the chance to earn up to $93 per annum, charitable giving program, access to learning platforms, employee discount program’s plus free games and events!
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“T2”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment at T2 is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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