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Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

Austin, Texas💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a distributed team building and operating the foundation for 2K's video games, managing datacenter compute, global network, edge services, and cloud platforms.

Role type

Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering (Leadership)

Builds

Datacenter and compute infrastructure, global network and edge services, cloud platforms for game studios

Domain

Gaming / Entertainment

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Team leadership and hiring, Capacity planning, Incident management, Vendor management, Financial forecasting, Asynchronous communication, Hybrid environment management, Technical risk assessment

Preferred skills

Gaming industry experience, Media industry experience

Technologies

Cloud platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, Networking

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of network, cloud, and systems engineers; Own capacity planning across on-call, project delivery, KTLO, and incident response; Translate technical roadmaps into staffing plans and realistic commitments; Run a service and operations team with sustainable on-call rotations and clear escalation paths; Ensure team preparedness for major incidents and blameless post-incident reviews; Hold the team to engineering standards including IaC and Git-based change management; Set norms for transparency and communication for distributed teams; Partner with studio, SRE, and security teams on launch readiness; Own cloud spend and datacenter capacity forecasting; Represent infrastructure to leadership and non-technical stakeholders; Manage vendor and partner relationships; Build follow-the-sun coverage across sites.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on leadership

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