Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Why join the Game Operations Team?

• Are you looking for a team where your voice matters? Our Linux Engineers are trusted to be experts in their field. You'll research and implement the most innovative solutions to the problems that come with running the complex distributed systems our players depend on.
• Do you look for every opportunity to tune and automate your systems? We're on call but that doesn't mean we like getting called. We look for every chance to tune or automate away all the reasons to be woken by the NOC.
• Are you looking for a job where you'll make a difference? Using your depth and breadth of technical experience you'll be directly responsible for the health and performance of our live games.
• Do you enjoy working in a collaborative environment? It takes more than just an operations team to run multiple MMOs. We work with several talented engineering and operations teams to keep our games running smoothly.

Things you'll be responsible for:

• Keeping the infrastructure that run our games humming along through continuous tuning and automation.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining fault tolerant systems to pay off technical debt and solve the new problems we face as a growing studio.
• Collaborating with the Security Operations team to ensure that every system is as secure and compliant as possible while still respecting the needs of the studio, the players, and regulatory authorities.
• Validating and improving upon existing disaster recovery plans to prove that backups work.
• Ensuring the platform that our players depend on remains available, maintaining 99.999% uptime.
• Authoring and maintaining operational and design documentation to ensure every member of the team is set up for success.
• Collaborating with Engineering and Operations teams to deliver valuable solutions to our players and the studio.
• Cross training with your teammates and other staff of the Technical Operations Department.
• Striving to build a fully automated, self-healing production environment so the team has fewer reasons to wake up at 3am.
• Participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation with the rest of your team.

Tech and skills we use:

• Linux System administration, tuning, and automation
• Database, web, and mail server administration
• Systems and application monitoring
• Scripting languages
• Managed cloud services
• Fault tolerant distributed system design
• Configuration management

Certs or curriculum we value:

• CompTIA Linux+
• RHCE
• ACSA
• ACDE