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Systems Administrator
2 years ago
About ProbablyMonsters™ Family of Studios
ProbablyMonsters Family of Studios is developing 3 simultaneous AAA games in multiple genres. Since our launch in 2019, we have built 3 studios so far. Firewalk™ is working on a new multiplayer game to be exclusively published by PlayStation. Cauldron™ is developing a single-player, adventure-driven game and our RPG Team has a next-gen open world experience in progress.
We recently announced the largest Series A raise in game development history at $200 MILLION to continue building long-lasting game studios. We are committed to providing our teams with the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers. Our Monster mindset of people-first, our ethos of predictable excellence, and our purpose of inspiring a healthier industry has attracted 200+ likeminded professionals who unapologetically defend the sustainable home we have built together, a home free of storms that allows for focused creativity.
We are looking for an exceptional Systems Administrator to join our growing company. We are working to scale our infrastructure and support services, backing the teams in the ProbablyMonsters family. This position supports internal studio development, as well as assists with building out the infrastructure to support our production-facing services.
Who You Are:
- You are respectful, trustworthy, and approachable.
- You have a strong sense of mentorship and cooperation with teammates, willing to jump in and help anywhere you are needed.
- Familiar with the complexities of a hybrid cloud environment and supporting services on Windows and Linux.
- Passionate about new technology, automation, and scalability.
- A clear communicator who believes in future-proofing systems with documentation, configuring high availability and understanding how systems can be scaled practically.
What You Will Do:
- Check-in with teams across the company on the projects in flight, as you help to build out systems from ideation to operationalization.
- Get coffee with someone from another team, build relationships both on a professional and personal level.
- Keep a pulse on the help desk and assist with tickets to ensure we’re delivering awesomeness to our teams.
- Respond to alerts from the monitoring system, figure out if meaningful or noise, work with the team to clean up and improve issues and processes.
- Hop in on the current playtest and provide meaningful feedback for that game your infrastructure is helping build.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of:
- Server infrastructure and implementation in Windows Server and Linux, on-prem and cloud.
- Automation with Powershell.
- Virtualization (VMware or Hyper-V)
- Core Windows domain systems (Active Directory, AAD, DNS, DHCP).
- Familiarity with:
- Networking concepts (firewalls and VPN, subnetting and VLANs, wireless).
- Management of cloud assets.
- Security system concepts (MFA, conditional access, auditing, incident response).
- Source control services (Perforce, github, etc).
- Infrastructure monitoring tools.
- Configuration Management (SCCM/MEMCM).
- SAN/NAS Storage (Pure, Nimble, Windows File Server Clusters, etc).
Very Nice to Have:
- Experience working with multiple domains, single cloud tenancy.
- Infrastructure as code (ansible, terraform).
- Experience supporting teams in the games industry.
- An understanding of containers and ways to deploy and support their use.
- Experience wrangling Macs in an enterprise environment.
- A passion for gaming.
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