Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Title:Senior Systems Engineer

Requisition ID:R001408

Want to be responsible for the awesome gaming experience of hundreds of millions of players? How about building the infrastructure that supports players from around the world?

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join the Cloud Engineering team in our Vancouver location.
Our major focus is a large-scale migration to Google Cloud Platform, in addition to supporting our existing datacenter-based infrastructure by providing services and technologies to internal customers in a secure, scalable and repeatable way. We provide build services, VM and Linux container provisioning, and other base services such as DNS, LDAP, secrets management and more to other Demonware Engineering teams.

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

In this role, you will:
• Be instrumental in setting technical direction and best practices for our current and future needs.
• Play a key role in creating best practices and guidelines for migrating diverse workloads to Google Cloud Platform and ensuring they are set up securely and efficiently.
• Improve efficiency in our private cloud services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the current and future demands for both us and our internal customers.
• Drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Drive key platform and infrastructure projects involving multiple teams.
• Troubleshoot and debug, often in collaboration with other teams
• Collaborate with other engineers in design and code reviews.
• Provide services and support for virtualized and containerized workloads to other teams in Demonware.
• Manage key internal services such as Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Vault, DNS, and OpenLDAP.
• Develop best practices and tooling for GCP usage across the organization.
• Act as an escalation point for systems and services owned by the team.

About you:
• 7+ years practical infrastructure experience, preferably in high-volume and/or critical production service environments.
• Experience with compute and network hardware and architecture.
• Scripting skills: Unix shell scripting and at least one of Python or Golang.
• Experience of running services in KubernetesFirm grasp of Linux administration and core operating system concepts.
• A desire to automate all the things.
• Tenacity for debugging and solving technology problems down to their root cause.
• Proven experience with architecting and provisioning services using public cloud services GCP (preferred) or AWS.
• Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform.
• Knowledge of hardware and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM), Linux containers (LXC/LXD) and containers (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with infrastructure services, e.g. DNS, HashiCorp suite and Jenkins.

What Demonware Offers:

Relocation Support, 25 days of vacation, RRSP matching program and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents and perks.

About us:

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, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.

The work we do together every day impacts almost half a billion players around the world. We solve big company challenges with a small company feel. We are technology-driven with a culture of openness. This means collaborating to solve interesting challenges, enjoying the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.

Experience Required:

7+ years practical infrastructure experience, preferably in high-volume and/or critical production service environments.

Responsibilities:

Be instrumental in setting technical direction and best practices for our current and future needs. Play a key role in creating best practices and guidelines for migrating diverse workloads to Google Cloud Platform and ensuring they are set up securely and efficiently. Improve efficiency in our private cloud services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the current and future demands for both us and our internal customers. Drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible and Terraform. Drive key platform and infrastructure projects involving multiple teams. Troubleshoot and debug, often in collaboration with other teams . Collaborate with other engineers in design and code reviews. Provide services and support for virtualized and containerized workloads to other teams in Demonware. Manage key internal services such as Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Vault, DNS, and OpenLDAP. Develop best practices and tooling for GCP usage across the organization. Act as an escalation point for systems and services owned by the team.

Skills:

terraform, jenkins, public cloud, artifactory, ansible, technical direction, linux containers, google cloud platform, lxc, aws, scripting, infrastructure services, kubernetes, python, github, private cloud, dns, linux, debugging, network hardware, virtualization, unix shell scripting, linux administration, kvm, Junior Systems Engineer, Senior Systems Engineering Manager, Systems Engineer, Senior System Engineer, Principal Systems Engineer, Junior System Engineer, Systems Integration Engineer, IT Systems Engineer, System Engineer, Software Systems Engineer

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