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Senior DevOps and Database Administrator

As a Sr. DevOps and Database Administrator this position is primarily responsible for the uptime, deployment and management of our application infrastructure and Mongo/Mysql administration. This position will provide vision, guidance, project management and hands on support to support the needs and projects of the game development platforms and their management. This includes providing strong technical direction, vision and leadership to manage the system architecture, security, design and operations processes. This position reports directly to the Director of Production Infrastructure and works closely with development teams.

You’ll most often:

• Provide technical leadership and oversight of large cloud hosted infrastructure
• Provide strong troubleshooting skills using experience and other available resources
• Provide monitoring, disaster recovery, and system support
• Maintain up-to-date detailed documentation and publishing; where applicable
• Provide strong Project Management skills
• Assist in ensuring 24x7 availability of services and infrastructure.

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Expert level hands on knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, Redis and DynamoDB Databases
• Expert level in design and architecture of large scale data projects
• Expert level in sharding, replication, recovery, and performance optimizations
• Expert level in shard key creation design and implementation
• Expert level in data migration and minimization of downtime and
• Strong, hands on knowledge and experience working with Amazon Web Services, scripting and automation of deployments, configuration management systems (Puppet, Terraform Etc)
• Experience with multi-site systems
• Experience with CI/CD including Jenkins and other deployment pipeline applications
• Thorough understanding and working knowledge of various Linux platforms (primarily CentOS)
• Structural understanding of AWS Elastic Block Store, GB2, SSD volumes
• Extensive experience with backup and disaster recovery best practices
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) or relevant experience

Extra bonus points if you have:

• Experience in the video game development environment
• Previous experience with Java or other languages
• Experience working with a distributed IT team