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Senior Systems Administrator

Summary

We are seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to join our team to research, deploy and maintain critical infrastructure for PlayStation game development.

You love staying up to date on the latest trends and thrive on using your technical wizardry to tackle complex problems. You have proven leadership skills, excel in customer service and thrive in a dynamic, groundbreaking environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for data center management, including servers, storage, virtualization, networking and implementing data center best practices.
• Lead the charge in partnering with cross functional business units to ensure IT services meet business requirements.
• Regularly assess IT infrastructure and provide recommendations to enhance performance and stability.
• Establish working relationships with peers at other studios to collaborate on cross site initiatives.
• Implement best practice information security policies, or high level initiatives as needed.
• Serve as escalation point for advanced desktop issues.
• Create documentation on system configuration, workflow, network diagrams and instructions.
• On call 24x7 - must be available for planned and unplanned maintenance during off hours and weekends.
• Provide mentorship to team members.

Requirements

• Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, WSUS.
• Excellent proficiency with NAS device management, including optimization, troubleshooting and tiered data architecture.
• Solid background in automated Windows deployment, including MDT, and server OS troubleshooting.
• Solid background in automated Linux deployment and server OS troubleshooting.
• Linux configuration management.
• Knowledge of various storage device types - NAS, SAN, iSCSI.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with build and render farms, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Perforce server management.
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration tools.
• Working knowledge of designing and deploying VDI solutions.