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Remote Perforce System Administrator/Engineer #1225
1 year ago
Contract Length: 18 months
Work Location: Remote full time
Work Hours: Fulltime
Pay Rate: Starting at $38.00 an hour based on experience (Rate applies outside of WA., CA., & CO.)
Keywords Studios is looking for an upbeat, technical professional that is driven by new challenges and opportunities. As a Systems Engineer you will support the infrastructure and platform solutions that enable us to create amazing experiences. You'll work alongside hard-working individuals and leap at the chance to take on new challenges, improve processes and drive operational efficiencies.
Almost forgot to mention, you'll love working here because we are so much fun!
We are seeking candidates with prior experience in administering Source Control systems. If this is something that's not in your toolbox but you'd be willing to learn, we'd love to hear from you!
During WFH or if remote, the following is required for this type of position
- Internet speed of at least 250Mbps download / 100 Mbps upload or 1 Gbps, wired connection preferred, to ensure work is not impacted by connectivity/latency issues
- Internet data is at a high or unlimited cap
- Make sure to run and repeat speed tests throughout the day, as it can fluctuate during peak hours
- Candidates must provide a screenshot of their speed test result
- Agency must include speed test screenshot as part of the submission process for consideration
- If candidate does not currently meet the network requirement:
- Candidate is committing to meeting the network requirement by their start date if an offer is received and mutually accepted
Daily responsibilities
- Maintain and support perforce Infrastructure
- Perform regular maintenance tasks including application patching, database check-pointing and configuration changes
- Define and document standard run books and operating procedures
- Respond to Perforce monitoring and alerting, resolve performance issues and investigate problems
- Automate administrative tasks
- Provide root cause analysis for critical issues
- Participate in rotation of off-hours on-call support
- Primary support for Perforce (Helix Core) server and client management and maintenance
- Support and training for staff using Helix Swarm
- Support usage and conversion from branches to Perforce streams
Keywords provides a competitive compensation package, good benefits and a casual, fun, productive and supportive working environment. We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility and learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges. This is what makes us Keywordians.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in system administration supporting Linux (RedHat/CentOS preferred) in areas such as automated OS installation and security best-practices, package management, machine provisioning and lifecycle management
- 5+ years relevant work experience in Application Support
- 3 years experience acting as a system administrator for Perforce running on Windows and Linux servers
- 5+ years' experience supporting Perforce usage in large organizations or enterprise environments
- Troubleshooting skills for both hardware, software and operating systems (Windows and Linux)
- Strong experience automating tasks using scripting
- Experience with config management / provisioning automation (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Shares knowledge freely, assisting teammates in learning coding, systems engineering, etc., helping to raise the overall skill level of the team
Nice to have
- Extensive experience as a Perforce Administrator
- Experience deploying and supporting Kubernetes
- Experience with network service troubleshooting and configuration; DNS, DHCP, LDAP
- Proficiency with diagnostic and performance monitoring tools (Cacti, Zabbix, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, etc)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
Benefits
At KeyWords we provide all our contingent workforce with:
Paid Time Off (including sick days and holidays)
401k (3% matching)
Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
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