Senior DevOps Engineer – GeForce NOW Cloud

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NVIDIA is seeking a passionate Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering Team in GeForce NOW. In this role, you’ll help shape the future of cloud gaming. GeForce NOW streams the highest-quality games to any device—PCs, Macs, or mobile—using advanced GPUs and software for a seamless, near-instant experience. Learn more at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/. The world’s largest gaming cloud demands top-tier operations, state-of-the-art deployment infrastructure, and tools that empower developers to deliver at speed. If this excites you, read on!

What you’ll be doing:

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the success of the GeForce Now (GFN) Cloud platform by helping to build our development and release processes, creating world-class performance, quality measurement and regression management tools, and maintaining a high standard of excellence in our CI/CD and release engineering tools and processes.

• Design, build, and implement scalable cloud-based systems for PaaS/IaaS.

• Collaborate with cross-time-zone teams to understand requirements and feedback, and develop new products and enhancements to existing ones.

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

• Develop, maintain, and improve CI/CD tools for on-prem and cloud deployment of our microservices.

• Collaborate with developers to establish, refine, and streamline our software release process.

• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks.

• Implement robust observability (logs, metrics, tracing) for proactive issue detection.

• Helps define the long term vision/roadmap of end-to-end release process while both utilizing state-of-art industry standards and pioneering new paradigms.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent, with minimum 8+ years of relevant industry experience.

• Strong understanding of cloud design, global deployments, distributed systems, and security compliance.

• Proven expertise managing large-scale, high-availability production environments with observability, telemetry, and alerting.

• Skilled in Docker, Kubernetes, and KubeVirt for containerized workloads.

• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CloudBees, GitLab, and GitOps tools such as Flux CD and Argo CD.

• Experienced with IaC tools like Terraform, configuration management with Kubernetes Config Management and Ansible, and secret management using HashiCorp Vault.

• Experienced in developing automation frameworks along with good knowledge of RESTful web services.

• Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills and a proactive approach, including flexibility to support projects during critical or off-hours as needed.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Proficient in Go, Python, Bash, and Groovy for writing controllers and automation scripts.

• Experience unifying infrastructure tools, services, and documentation using platforms like Backstage.

• Strong knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and the ELK stack, including implementing telemetry, alerting, and dashboards.

• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) as well as bare-metal and on-premises infrastructure.

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