Network Engineering - eSports

Job Description

As Riot continues to deliver and scale content to a global audience of passionate gamers, Riot's Esports must grow to meet the challenges and opportunities. All of this is done whilst defining and implementing globally relevant and functional solutions. This means taking a pragmatic approach to solution development and creatively adapting to circumstances as they change in real-time

As a Network Engineer on the Esport Technology team, you will manage the complete life cycle of our transport network and the network connectivity for events. This means you will assist with planning, deploying, and operating our existing infrastructure to give our players the best experience possible. With an understanding that we support both Global and Regional esports networking so you will need to iterate on scalable designs that can be deployed easily in the best of times, or efficiently execute disaster recovery workflows in the worst of times.

As we are a global game working with many studios, this role will need to travel internationally as permitted

Responsibilities:
• Troubleshoot production issues at Riot scale
• Implement new solutions, and designs in a vendor-agnostic manner
• Contribute to the evolution of our network monitoring platforms
• Participate in long- and short-range technology planning.
• Level up your peers

Required Qualifications:
• 3+ years experience within network delivery and operational support
• In-depth experience with BGP
• Experience with the TCP/IP protocol stack
• Understanding of MLPS, IS-IS

Desired Qualifications:
• CCNP/JNCIP (enterprise routing/switching, data center/service provider focus); AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
• Experience with Python
• Experience with security appliances
Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqy3jm-216-73-217-10-42 in your application.