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Systems Engineering Manager (Data Centre Engineering)

Activision
Vancouver British Columbia V6A 4C4 Canada
2 years ago
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Job Title:

Systems Engineering Manager (Data Centre Engineering)

Requisition ID:

R013294

Job Description:

Want to cultivate the gaming experience of millions of players love? How about building the infrastructure that supports players from around the world?

Demonware is an independently-run part of Activision Blizzard. We run every part of the players' online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.

Our services impact almost half a billion players, we tackle big company challenges with a small company feel.

If you’re passionate about working with technologies for low-latency, large scale systems in a collaborative environment then we’d love to hear from you!

Your impact:

You will join the Platform Department and help craft technical direction and standard methodologies for our current and future needs. The Data Centre Engineering team is based around the world (Dublin, Shanghai & Vancouver).

You will improve efficiency in our existing hardware fleet and services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the current and future demands of ourselves and our internal customers.

You will drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible. Our goal is to provide data centre and cloud infrastructure in a secure, scalable and repeatable way!

Day to Day:

· Provide direction and strategy for the Data Centre Engineering team. Understand what the big picture is and how to get there.

· Own the relationship with internal customers and partners. Understand their needs and provide an exemplary service personally and through your team.

· Management of goals, performance, and career advancement for team members you are responsible for. Holding reports accountable to their expected contribution for their level.

· Provide career direction for direct and indirect reports, helping them establish a personal career path and continuously develop themselves.

· Collaborate with management to map out and deliver team objectives and priorities for the year based on company goals and requirements

· Organise and coordinate team members to effectively work together and with other teams in Demonware

· Ensure the work produced by the team achieves the quality bar we expect for our business

· Collaborate with HR and recruitment on various people and recruitment needs

About you:

· 2+ years of experience in similar leadership role (other combinations of technical skills and experience may be considered)

· 3+ years practical infrastructure experience, preferably working with large scale networks in a global 24/7 environment

· Background in debugging and solving technology problems at root cause

· Experience working in the games industry or providing online services is a plus

· Experience building and leading impactful software development teams

· Ability to engage, develop, and retain hard-working engineers

· Willingness to travel and accommodate a flexible work schedule that includes being on-call

· Familiarity with project management processes, software development methodologies and automation

· Knowledge of Linux operating systems and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM) and/or Linux containers (e.g. LXC/LXD, Docker)

· Knowledge of container orchestration technologies (specifically Kubernetes)

Interview overview:

This is what you can expect from your interview process with us. As our team, and closely adjacent teams, are distributed globally we may need to make some adjustments along the way. We aim for you to meet as many of the people you will work closely with during the process. We will keep you updated of any changes along the way.

· 1x 30-60 minute engineering screen call (with up to 2 people)

· 3x 1 hour technical conversations (with up to 3 people per session)

· 1x 30 minutes with other team members (with up to 3 people)

What Demonware Offers:

Relocation Support, 25 days of vacation and 3 bonus days in December, Pension and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.

To read more: https://demonware.net/careers

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