Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Marketing Technology

Client: Activision Blizzard
Rate: $92–$102/hour
Location: Remote

Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Marketing Technology

Client: Enterprise Gaming & Entertainment Company

Rate: $92–$102/hour

Location: Remote

Contract Duration: Through 12/31/2026

Role Overview

A leading global gaming and entertainment company is seeking a Service Reliability Engineer to join its Marketing Technology organization. This team builds and operates platforms that power player engagement, loyalty, and revenue-driving experiences across world-class digital products.

This role focuses on designing, scaling, and supporting highly reliable backend services and cloud-native platforms operating at large scale. You’ll work hands-on with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and observability tooling to ensure mission-critical systems remain performant, resilient, and cost-efficient, while also influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising reliability standards across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale backend services that support player-facing features and marketing platforms.

• Design and operate reliable, highly scalable service platforms using open-source technologies.

• Troubleshoot production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.

• Contribute to architectural reviews and provide actionable design feedback on new services.

• Share best practices across engineering teams and help elevate reliability standards.

• Mentor junior engineers and promote strong engineering and SRE practices.

• Influence platform and reliability strategy through hands-on technical leadership.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience supporting production systems.

• Strong background building and operating scalable, reliable services.

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Cloud experience with Google Cloud and Azure.

• Proven experience migrating workloads from GKE to AKS.

• Experience with VMs (x86 and ARM) and Linux containers.

• Familiarity with Helm, Grafana, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of deployment strategies, autoscaling, and cloud cost optimization.

• Experience designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Background supporting high-volume, consumer-facing applications.

• Experience with large-scale engagement, gaming, or social platforms.

• Strong ownership mindset from design through deployment and long-term operations.

• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills.

Contract Duration: Through 12/31/2026

Role Overview

Activision Blizzard is seeking a Service Reliability Engineer to join its Marketing Technology organization, building and operating the platforms that power player engagement, loyalty, and revenue-driving experiences across industry-leading game franchises. This role focuses on designing, scaling, and supporting highly reliable backend services and cloud-native platforms that operate at global scale.

You'll work hands-on with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and observability tooling to ensure mission-critical systems remain performant, resilient, and cost-efficient, while also influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering best practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale backend services that support player-facing features and marketing platforms.

• Design and operate reliable, highly scalable service platforms using open-source technologies.

• Troubleshoot production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.

• Contribute to architectural reviews and provide actionable design feedback on new services.

• Share best practices across engineering teams and help elevate reliability standards.

• Mentor junior engineers and promote strong engineering and SRE practices.

• Influence platform and reliability strategy through hands-on technical leadership.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience supporting production systems.

• Strong background building and operating scalable, reliable services.

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Cloud experience with Google Cloud and Azure.

• Proven experience migrating workloads from GKE to AKS.

• Experience with VMs (x86 and ARM) and Linux containers.

• Familiarity with Helm, Grafana, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of deployment strategies, autoscaling, and cloud cost optimization.

• Experience designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Background supporting high-volume, consumer-facing applications.

• Experience with game economies, social platforms, or large-scale engagement systems.

• Strong ownership mindset from design through deployment and long-term operations.

• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills.

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