The Opportunity:
The Live Games Infrastructure Manager will play a critical role in supporting the live operations for our gaming business. The position supports the vision and scaling of our technology infrastructure to support the deployment and rapid growth of Mattel鈥檚 gaming player base. Work directly with game studios in collaboration with internal technology teams to ensure successful planning, deployment and execution of infrastructure to support live games operations. From concept inception through live deployment, you will provide timely critical expertise, guidance and hands-on execution and support to ensure the right infrastructure and services are in place to operate and grow live gaming services globally. Works closely with technology and liveops leadership in the Mattel games publishing team.
The ideal candidate is passionate about live games operations, with a solid track record of work with software development and infrastructure teams to design and deploy large-scale systems in a live consumer environment.
What Your Impact Will Be:
- Oversee the games live infrastructure domain, developing robust strategy and planning to support the product release cycle and operations and growth of Mattel鈥檚 live published games.
- Support Mattel games publishing business - Advise and guide the games publishing team in the architecture, development and deployment of mission-critical liveops infrastructure; successfully bringing together game studio expertise, third-party partnerships and internal Mattel capabilities. Collaborate with Mattel鈥檚 privacy and compliance teams to ensure our experiences are safe, secure, and compliant.
- Support games development studios - Be an enabling force to support game development studios with insightful architectural guidance and direct integration support of both third-party solutions and Mattel infrastructure. Collaborate internally with Mattel technology teams to leverage internal capabilities and expertise.
- Interface with third-party technology service providers to uphold development and live operational issues, navigating roadblocks and deploying & testing solutions.
- Own KPIs around operational performance and cost effectiveness. Provide accurate and timely reporting forecasts & analysis. Ensure all components are robust and scalable to support market projections, and beyond. Develop QA & test capabilities, enabling development teams to effectively debug and validate stability, scalability and security.
- Continuous improvement - Innovate how we think about our infrastructure and services, closely following industry advancements that enhance player experience, development efficiency and operational performance.