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Systems Administrator

Who We Are:

2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming devices and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. 2K is a leading publisher of today’s most popular gaming genres and most well-known for critically acclaimed game franchises like NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Bioshock, Borderlands, Evolve, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization.

About the Team: Technical Infrastructure and Operations

The 2K Technical Infrastructure and Operations team is responsible for the operations and infrastructure of all consumer facing production systems and developer facing production-development systems under the 2K label, customer facing account services and websites. This team manages systems and services spanning multiple datacenters both terrestrial and cloud based.

What You Will Do

• Own Incident Management life-cycle of our production infrastructure from monitoring through resolution
• Monitor and troubleshoot issues and events involving 2K’s production applications, systems, clouds, and networks
• Keep everything up and running!

Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit

• You take initiative when you see a problem; you are a life-long learner who seeks out knowledge. You're driven to learn new skills and technologies
• You have a natural aptitude for written and verbal communications; able to tailor presentation from individual-contributors through senior management
• You have a rock solid command presence and are calm and collected in stressful situations, such as a major service outage.
• You have 3+ years of large-scale production network or systems operations and enjoy talking reliability engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical field, or similar work experience in a large-scale 24/7 production environment supporting critical, real-time application

Preferred Skills

• Solid grasp of Linux Red Hat, Windows server OS, AD
• Experience working in virtualized environments and cloud implementations
• Solid understanding of the TCP/IP suite
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
• Flexibility to work shift model

Bonus skills

• Kubernetes/Public Cloud experience
• Python and/or Powershell Scripting