Intermediate Systems Engineer

Job Description

Who we are:
Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. 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.

What we do:

We are looking for an Associate Systems Engineer to join the Cloud Engineering team. 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.

Your responsibilities:
• 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.
• 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
• Assist with key internal services such as Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Vault, DNS, and OpenLDAP
• Develop best practices and tooling for GCP usage across the organization

Your Profile:
• 1+ years practical infrastructure experience, preferably in high-volume and/or critical production service environments
• Experience with compute and network hardware and architecture
• Experience of running services in KubernetesFirm grasp of Linux administration and core operating system concepts
• A desire to automate all the things
• Knowledge of hardware and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM), Linux containers (LXC/LXD) and containers (Kubernetes)

What Demonware Offers:

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8504x-216-73-216-202-42 in your application.