Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

The Xbox Game Studios Publishing (XGSP) team responsible for the recently released Towerborne, Ara: History Untold, Microsoft Flight Simulator, As Dusk Falls, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and Tell Me Why is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes.  This is a rare opportunity to join a creative and motivated team of people, develop exciting new projects, and take advantage of the newest technology available with backing and support from across Microsoft. Join the team driving world-class game development that sets the standard for entertainment across a growing family of devices including Xbox and Windows.  

Our team is responsible for building and operating the services and websites that power our games – whether they were released years ago or have yet to be announced. We’re looking for a platform engineer with extensive experience building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale, highly available, secure-by-default web services and websites. 

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure-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 securely maintain and 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. 

Qualifications

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.