This job listing expired on Feb 3, 2019
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General Description

Genvid Technologies seeks a Senior Live Operations Engineer to support its revolutionary new game broadcasting tools.

Responsibilities

Overseeing and supporting the initial integration of clients’ software with our development tools, and leading the technical aspects of the on-going support of these integrations during live events. Clients include the biggest game publishers in the world, as well as video game engine creators, game consoles, streaming platforms, and indie developers.

You’ll understand the clients’ individual needs and propose solutions accordingly. You’ll be forward thinking and creative to optimize for quality, time, efficiency, cost and scale. You’ll help design, build, scale, and support the integration of our technology into their games, and see to their deployment and on-going live support of these solutions in various data centers and cloud hosted environments.

You’ll work with the internal development teams to keep up to date on the latest changes to our software, communicating the needs of clients and the problems they have run into to our development teams, and providing real time feedback. You will work with QA to ensure that bugs and problems are swiftly addressed on the client’s behalf. You’ll be regularly responsible for assisting with the live operations of critical deployments during live events that require on-hands engineering support to ensure a stable, world class viewer experience.

You will work with the Business Development Team to understand the needs of our various partners and to provide support and knowledge. As a senior role, you’ll additionally be responsible for assisting the Live Operations Manager in providing a north star to other engineers on the Live Services team as a thought leader in your field and old hat at best practices.

You’ll be forward thinking, identifying improvements in systems management in the development process, and to facilitate the integration of our technology in past, actual and future orchestration technologies.

You’ll produce code and define best practices as well as help program high-risk elements.

And you’ll be keenly aware of the strict security needs of our partners.

Qualifications

Working knowledge:

  • 5+ years experience in services and web application development
  • 5+ years experience in automation of data center and cloud deployment
  • Deep understanding of Linux and must for Windows server systems
  • Experience with container orchestration technology
  • Ability to plan features of a complex stack in different environments.

Assets:

  • Knowledge of the following languages: Go, Python, TypeScript
  • Experience with Angular.JS and node.js
  • Good understanding of network security principles
  • Experience with Hashicorp Stack (Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Packer)
  • AWS EC2 (Azure, GCE a added plus)
  • Experience in modding and customization of published games in unconventional ways an additional plus