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Systems Engineer (Data Centre Engineering)

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Systems Engineer (DC Engineering)

Want to cultivate the gaming experience of millions of players love? How about building the infrastructure that supports players from around the world?

Demonware is an independently-run part of Activision Blizzard. We run every part of the players' online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.

Our services impact almost half a billion players, we tackle big company challenges with a small company feel.

If you’re passionate about working with technologies for low-latency, large scale systems in a collaborative environment then we’d love to hear from you!

Your impact:

You will join the Data Centre Engineering team in the Platform Department and help craft technical direction and best practises for our current and future needs. The team is based around the world (Dublin, Shanghai & Vancouver).

You will improve efficiency in our existing hardware fleet and services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the current and future demands of ourselves and our internal customers.

You will drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible. Our goal is to provide data centre and cloud infrastructure in a secure, scalable and repeatable way!

Day to Day:

· Work on key infrastructure projects involving multiple teams

· Solve and debug, often in collaboration with other teams

· Provide compute and storage infrastructure for virtualized and containerized workloads to other teams in Demonware

· Manage compute systems and storage solutions in our data centres encompassing related inventory, provisioning, and overall lifecycle management

· Be a person colleagues can approach for critical systems issues and services owned by the team

· Be part of our on-call rotation, shared with your team and by Demonware engineers around the world

About you:

· 3+ years practical infrastructure experience, preferably in large scale and/or critical production service environments

· Experience with compute and network hardware and architecture

· Firm grasp of Linux administration and core operating system concepts

· A desire to automate all the things

· Tenacity for debugging and solving technology problems

· Knowledge of the interdependencies of data centre functions and technologies

· Proven understanding of open source software and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM) and/or Linux containers (e.g. LXC/LXD, Docker)

· Knowledge of container orchestration technologies (specifically Kubernetes)

· Some experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and Protocols (Redfish, IPMI, etc.)

· Familiarity with common system services (e.g. PXE, DNS, DHCP, NTP, NFS, SNMP, LDAP, HTTP)

· Familiarity with distributed file systems (e.g. Gluster, Ceph)

· Strong scripting skills: Unix shell programming and ideally Python

Interview overview:

This is what you can expect from your interview process with us. As our team, and closely adjacent teams, are distributed globally we may need to make some adjustments along the way. We aim for you to meet as many of the people you will work closely with during the process. We will keep you informed of any changes along the way.

· 1x 30-60 minute engineering screen call (with up to 2 people)

· 3x 1 hour technical conversations (with up to 3 people per session)

· 1x 30 minutes with other team members (with up to 3 people)

What Demonware Offers:

Relocation Support, 25 days of vacation and 3 bonus days in December, Pension and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.

To read more: https://demonware.net/careers