Senior Application Engineer

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprising seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the US, and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are composed of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Your Mission

Activision Central Tech is looking for a hands-on Sr. Application Engineer to join our team in Sherman Oaks, California. This team supports a variety of cloud and on-premises workloads and you will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs and applications. You will work with our other internal and studio teams to analyze needs, provide solutions, and troubleshoot issues. You will help drive both performance and cost efficiencies within Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and private cloud infrastructure.

You, the ideal candidate, thrive on challenges like introducing new ways of testing to increase robustness, making team build deployments an instantaneous process, improving and finding deep-rooted problems in existing tools, and scaling existing processes and applications to the cloud.

Responsibilities:
• Support on-premises data center infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues with physical servers, vm's, storage, and cloud services
• Use IaC and automation to produce scalable and repeatable infrastructure
• Help resolve scaling and stability issues
• Partner with development teams to execute on-premises to cloud migrations
• Guide storage, cloud and build pipeline standards and requirements
• Actively contribute to documentation repositories
• Design custom tools and scripts as necessary
• Participate in an on-call support rotation

Player Profile
• Experience with large software projects, ideally building both code and large data sets
• Familiarity with a wide variety of open source technologies
• Working knowledge of continuous integration platforms (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
• Experience with automation/configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with virtualization, containerization, scaling (Docker, KVM, etc.)
• Experience managing reproducible infrastructure e.g. Infrastructure as Code
• Experience managing file, block, and object storage architectures
• Basic networking (routes, security groups, firewall rules)
• Experience in version control and managing CI build pipelines (Git & Perforce preferred)
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, memory cache)
• Experience in monitoring/metrics systems
• Excellent communication skills
• Expertise in both Windows and Linux
• Some Cloud Computing Experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• 5+ yrs of Systems Engineering experience or equivalent

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