DevOps Engineer

The toolkit is cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure as code and CI/CD. What makes it a games job is the shape of the load. A build pipeline moves tens of gigabytes of assets per run, game servers have to scale with a launch or an in-game event, and a live service cannot take a maintenance window at the wrong hour of the wrong day.

Databases, server administration and scripting round out the work, and on-call duty comes with it. Cost is a design constraint as well: an architecture that doubles the cloud bill of a free-to-play title has failed, however elegant it is.

The neighbours divide by what they own. A build engineer owns compile and cook for the game itself. A platform engineer builds the internal tooling other teams work in. A server administrator keeps running machines healthy. A DevOps position spans parts of all three.