Senior DevOps Engineer

NVIDIA is looking for a passionate member to join our Cloud Engineering Team in GeForce NOW (GFN) & Cloud Functions (NVCF) as a DevOps & CI/CD Engineer. In this role, you will play a significant part in helping to craft and guide the future of Cloud Gaming & Generative AI. GeForce NOW is NVIDIA's Cloud Gaming service, streaming games at the highest quality to any and every user regardless of their device types and capabilities – low-end PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. Using the most advanced GPUs and software, GeForce NOW transforms the gaming experience with always up-to-date games on always the latest hardware, a streaming experience rivaling that of a local PC, and near-instant launch – just click and play! For more details see https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/. 

The world’s largest gaming cloud needs the best operations to ensure industry leading uptime, state of the art deployment infrastructure, and empowering developers to build code at the speed of light. If that’s something that excites you, read on!

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and implement complex automation platforms to allow and manage the release of the GeForce NOW microservices onto both 3rd party and internal infrastructure.

• Empowering developers with automation for self-service releases while maintaining compliance standards and security best practices.

• Work with architects and engineers to build systems that catch regressions on the GeForce NOW platform during development and deployment phase

• Working with development teams to identify and automate operational inefficiencies.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience with 10+ years of equivalent experience.

• Strong hands-on experience working with large-scale microservice-based architecture.

• Kubernetes architecture and administration, experience extending Kubernetes with custom components using the CRD/Controller design pattern, and IaC for Kubernetes.

• Focus on security based solutions including Kubernetes security best practices (i.e. CIS-Kubernetes benchmarks), compliance standards (PCI/SOC 2/GPDR), and large-scale credential management (Hashicorp Vault).

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery systems such as GitLab, GitOps, Jenkins, Packer, and Terraform.

• Building solutions targeting cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).

• Programming in a language such as Python or Golang with an understanding of networking concepts like TCP/IP and firewall management.

• Creating regression detection systems based on service-defined unit tests and real-time production data and KPIs.

• Experience with telemetry and alerting systems such as Kibana, Elastic Search, Grafana, and Prometheus to create rich visualizations of system health over time.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Thrives in a multi-tasking environment with constantly evolving priorities.

• Strong independent leadership skills, ability to identify organization-wide problems and propose in-depth solutions spanning large time frames utilizing multiple team members

• Ability to analyze complex problems into simple subproblems and then reuse available solutions to implement most of those. Ability to design simple systems that can work efficiently without needing much support.

• Outstanding interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management and Architects.

• Experience deploying Kubernetes from scratch via Kubespray or similar.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.