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Senior Systems Engineer

The opportunity

Unity wants to make the world a better place. We're on the cusp of something exciting. Do you want to be part of that?

We’re looking for people to join us to improve not just what we develop, but how we develop. We’re scaling our teams and footprint to increase developer efficiency, ensuring that every second of development time is spent on the things that matter.

Our mission is to accelerate our Development teams, helping them to increase their velocity and quality.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you'll be part of a growing team passionate about self-service tools and infrastructure, powering the build and test automation on all Unity platforms. We run gaming platforms, mobile phones and a private cloud built upon a mix of opensource and commercial software. You’ll be passionate about hyper scale technology with an appetite for learning and crafting highly usable solutions.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead discussions related to architecture, deployment and operational improvements, from the rack and hardware design up to our virtualisation and storage platforms.
• Working in a distributed team supporting core infrastructure, services and devices and covering oncall for critical issues.
• Management of Assets and Inventory including provisioning and RMA with onsite technical support and troubleshooting when required
• Technical support and troubleshooting, hardware through to the OS
• Monitoring system performance to ensure reliable services

What we’re looking for

• Deep Linux skills and automation - we use Ansible and Go, you might have used something similar
• Curious, pragmatic, thoughtful and user focussed
• Experience of using and extending Open Source software and tooling
• Someone who cares about documentation and how to test what they build
• Ability to easily commute to Slough

You might also have

• Programming skills in Python, Go, Bash or Powershell
• Systems Administration skills in other Operating Systems : Windows, MacOS, Android
• Experience of Mid to Large scale server deployments for critical services

Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

Unity is at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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