This job listing expired on Dec 30, 2020
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DESCRIPTION

Reports to: Lead Core Team - Production Services

As a member of IT Production Services, the Senior Systems Administrator will administer and support the implementation, monitoring, maintenance and improvement of the server estate (Windows and Linux), tools and services offered by the team.

Responsibilities

  • Support video game development teams with dynamic technical demands, across multiple locations, to help ensure that they’re getting the most out of the team’s core service offerings;
  • Manage and support the Microsoft Windows server and Linux server estate ensuring that servers are deployed, secured, run at optimal states and selected software updates are applied;
  • Partake in the selection process for hardware, software or other solutions owned by the Production Services team;
  • Perform administration and management of all services owned by the team to maintain a high level of service availability, continuous improvement and to ensure optimal performance of tools, applications and servers;
  • Participate in the design and implementation of technologies and projects owned but the team;
  • Collaborate with the DevOps team to ensure that public/private cloud applications and services run on a solid foundation in order to meet and exceed service levels;
  • Provide advice and guidance to customers and various stakeholders by demonstrating a sense of responsibility and accountability in the context of solutions owned by the Production Services team and other assigned projects.

Experience & qualifications required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience;
  • 7 years of experience managing Microsoft on premise and cloud technologies in a multi-site or large production environment.
  • 7 years of experience managing Linux servers;
  • Experience with Configuration Management (such as Ansible, Terraform, and similar tools)
  • Experience with automation and scripting of processes
  • Exposure to public cloud and cloud concepts (Desirable).

Technical Abilities

  • Proven capacities around Microsoft server technologies
  • Proven capacities around Microsoft cloud (o365, Azure) technologies
  • Working Knowledge of Linux distributions in a corporate environment (Centos, Redhat, Ubuntu)
  • Desirable: working knowledge of container backend and day to day operations (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Desirable: working knowledge of monitoring concepts and operations (Solarwinds knowledge a +)
  • Desirable: Working knowledge of voip telephony
  • Desirable: Working knowledge of remote work technologies (RDP, HDX, VPN)

Interpersonal Qualities

  • Excellent customer service & collaboration, inside and outside the team.
  • Ability to bring projects to completion with minimal supervision.
  • A detail-oriented and mindful approach to problem solving.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Ability to learn new concepts and technology quickly and adapt to an ever-evolving environment.
  • Availability to work outside of regular business hours.

Motivations & interest

Passion & ambition for videogames are essential!