- Posted 09 November 2023
- Salary$140,000 - $180,000 CAD
- LocationVancouver
- Job type Permanent
- DisciplineMultimedia / Design / New Media
- Reference1445422
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Senior DevOps Engineer | $140,000 - $180,000 CAD | 100% Remote
Job description
Senior DevOps Engineer | $140,000 - $180,000 CAD | 100% Remote | AAA Gaming
The Company:
This long-standing and well-known indie studio has taken the next step in its evolution. Originally known for its fun and quirky games across mobile and PC, they have secured contracts with top-tier organizations, working on AAA games and giant IP’s like Call of Duty and Harry Potter. With a bright future and steady growth, this studio has a large focus on work/life balance, with minimal overtime and 100% remote working options.
The Role:
Our client is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Systems Engineer to work in a team environment that will help extend, automate, and monitor the infrastructure platform for their current title and future projects. They must have a passion for producing quality deliverables in a timely manner and be able to work in a fast paced (Agile) environment, following a structured build and publishing process. This candidate must possess strong troubleshooting experience and have knowledge of multiple infrastructure systems and environments rather than be a specialist.
Responsibilities:
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The Company:
This long-standing and well-known indie studio has taken the next step in its evolution. Originally known for its fun and quirky games across mobile and PC, they have secured contracts with top-tier organizations, working on AAA games and giant IP’s like Call of Duty and Harry Potter. With a bright future and steady growth, this studio has a large focus on work/life balance, with minimal overtime and 100% remote working options.
The Role:
Our client is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Systems Engineer to work in a team environment that will help extend, automate, and monitor the infrastructure platform for their current title and future projects. They must have a passion for producing quality deliverables in a timely manner and be able to work in a fast paced (Agile) environment, following a structured build and publishing process. This candidate must possess strong troubleshooting experience and have knowledge of multiple infrastructure systems and environments rather than be a specialist.
Responsibilities:
- Help create and support a reliable, secure, scalable environment to provide the best gaming experience for the end users.
- Work closely with other engineering teams to better understand their software, enabling you to adapt the platform to their needs.
- Be responsible for ensuring the ability to reliably build and deploy new product versions, deliver new features to our customers, and introduce change into those systems in a safe way
- Support our systems via an after-hours on-call rotation
- Proficient with Python
- Must possess experience in supporting mission critical live environments with the below:
- Core system services: BIND, Sendmail, Postfix, Samba, Rsync, NTP, NFS,
- Web servers (Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd) and application frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP, Tomcat, JBOSS, etc.)
- System and Application Logging: syslog-ng, rsyslog, Splunk, etc.
- Source code management: Git, Perforce etc.
- RedHat or Debian package creation and repository management
- SQL or NoSQL databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB, CouchDB, MemcacheDB, etc.
- Configuration Management Tools: Chef, etc.
- Continuous Integration: TeamCity, etc.
- Must have some experience automating system tasks and monitoring infrastructure deployment using a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash)
- Must have prior experience in a 24/7 on call rotation supporting business critical applications or systems.
- Knowledge of Akamai CDN, Go, PowerShell, vSphere/VMware
- Experience with virtual machine and template tooling: Packer, Vagrant, etc.
- Hobbyist programming background
- Author a technical blog or github page with code samples
- A passion for security tools and best practices: OS hardening, vulnerability scanning, system auditing
- Linux networking experience is a plus, this includes routing, NAT, VLAN, bridging, and prior experience with Cisco or Juniper network routers and switches.
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