Champion Solutions

Job Summary:
Aspyr is a leading game publisher and developer dedicated to crafting high-quality games. They are seeking an Engineering Manager - Infrastructure to lead and mentor a team focused on CI/CD pipeline and related infrastructure, ensuring best practices in architecting and optimizing the build and distribution pipeline for multiple game titles.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and mentor the infrastructure team, fostering a culture of best practices, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Manage the team's contribution to the development of a pipeline that spans from code submission and validation, through full product build, and finally to artifact storage and distribution
• Own the technical roadmap for build, release, and infrastructure systems, including prioritization, modernization, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Drive optimization efforts across the pipeline to reduce build times and infrastructure costs
• Collaborate effectively with Engineers, Designers, Artists, and IT to align infrastructure goals with product needs
• Ensure the infrastructure supports globally distributed teams and partners, as both contributors to, and consumers of pipeline products
• Target all relevant game platforms, including desktop, consoles, and mobile.
• Plan for and make recommendations for team growth and new roles to support infrastructure goals
• Oversee the writing of clear architecture and user documentation for developed systems
• Monitor key metrics such as build times, build success rates, and failure analysis, and champion solutions for continuous improvement
• Manage the team's participation in the on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortem processes
• Oversee the operational health, deployment, and lifecycle management for all infrastructure services and systems owned by the engineering team
• Provide security oversight in correlation with IT around access control systems like Perforce and build access
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide performance feedback, support career development, manage priorities, and help grow team capability
Qualifications:
Required:
• Lead and mentor the infrastructure team, fostering a culture of best practices, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Manage the team's contribution to the development of a pipeline that spans from code submission and validation, through full product build, and finally to artifact storage and distribution
• Own the technical roadmap for build, release, and infrastructure systems, including prioritization, modernization, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Drive optimization efforts across the pipeline to reduce build times and infrastructure costs
• Collaborate effectively with Engineers, Designers, Artists, and IT to align infrastructure goals with product needs
• Ensure the infrastructure supports globally distributed teams and partners, as both contributors to, and consumers of pipeline products
• Target all relevant game platforms, including desktop, consoles, and mobile
• Plan for and make recommendations for team growth and new roles to support infrastructure goals
• Oversee the writing of clear architecture and user documentation for developed systems
• Monitor key metrics such as build times, build success rates, and failure analysis, and champion solutions for continuous improvement
• Manage the team's participation in the on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortem processes
• Oversee the operational health, deployment, and lifecycle management for all infrastructure services and systems owned by the engineering team
• Provide security oversight in correlation with IT around access control systems like Perforce and build access
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide performance feedback, support career development, manage priorities, and help grow team capability
Preferred:
• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• 8+ years software engineering and/or DevOps experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent hands-on professional experience
• Experience with incident management, post mortem and moving from a reactive team to a proactive team
• Extensive knowledge of cloud compute and storage platforms, including AWS
• Experience with configuration management and deployment of cloud compute nodes
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or TeamCity
• Experience with Perforce
• Experience leading small engineering teams
• Extensive experience with scripting languages (Python, batch, bash, etc.)
• Degree in Computer Science or Math, or equivalent experience
• Experience with the architecture and design of complex, large-scale systems
• Proven expertise in automation and scripting to streamline infrastructure operations
• Strong understanding of first-party platform dynamics, guidelines, submission processes and tools (e.g., Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo)
• Plus: Game DevOps experience
• Double Plus: Unreal Engine Horde / Gauntlet experience
Company:
Aspyr is a video game publishing and development partner focused on maximizing the potential of games. Founded in 1996, the company is headquartered in Austin, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.