DevOps Tech Lead

The opportunity
As our DevOps Activity Leader, you will join our R&D leadership team to set the technical vision for our infrastructure. Working alongside our Data/ML, Mobile, and Backend leaders, you will play a key role in shaping our company's overall technical strategy.

Your expertise will transform our infrastructure and deployment. You'll design scalable cloud architectures to accelerate innovation, champion a world-class DevOps culture to empower developers, and build the foundation for our future growth.

• Strategic Impact: A direct line of sight between your work and key business outcomes, with influence on strategic technical decisions across the entire business unit.
• Technical Leadership: Shape the future of our infrastructure and own the architectural roadmap for our cloud and deployment ecosystem.
• Innovation Playground: Experiment with emerging technologies and implement solutions at scale in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.
• Technology Breadth: Work across the full DevOps spectrum – from Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes to DataOps and developer productivity tools.
• Growth Trajectory: A clear path for career advancement as you demonstrate success and grow your leadership scope.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead Technical Strategy: Define the technical vision and roadmap for our DevOps and Production Engineering capabilities, aligning multiple teams around common patterns, tools, and practices.
• Design Cloud-Native Solutions: Architect and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, IaC, and other modern frameworks to power our growing technology ecosystem.
• Accelerate Developer Experience: Spearhead improvements to our CI/CD pipelines, developer portals, and internal platforms to empower engineering teams to ship higher-quality software, faster.
• Optimize Data Infrastructure: Engineer and support robust platforms for our data-intensive workloads, ensuring the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of systems leveraging technologies like Kafka.
• Drive DevOps Transformation: Mentor team members, lead the Production Engineering & DevOps Infra function, and collaborate with fellow R&D leaders to champion modern practices across the organization.

What We're Looking For

• Cloud Platform Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP services, Kubernetes cluster management, and implementing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code Mastery: Proven ability to design and implement infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi at enterprise scale.
• CI/CD & GitOps Expertise: Demonstrated success building and optimizing continuous integration and delivery pipelines using modern tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Data Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience designing and implementing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads, including data processing pipelines (Kafka), storage solutions, and observability systems.
• Database Expertise: Deep knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, SingleStore, PostgreSQL), including performance tuning and scalability best practices.

You might also have

• Experience with big data processing applications using Spark.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning platforms such as Ray or Seldon Core.
• Proficiency in a scripting language like Python or Go for automation.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and automated security tooling.
• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps principles.

Additional Information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity*
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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