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At Ubisoft Montreal, a preeminent developer of video games located in Montreal’s dynamic Mile-End neighbourhood since 1997, we offer a work environment unique in the industry for allowing you to build and cultivate games that are part of critically acclaimed, iconic AAA franchises of international repute. 

When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary developers connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages. 

Job Description

Ubisoft IT Production Service is an innovation catalyst, delivering optimized solutions that offer game production teams a variety of options adapted to their reality. Through our close relationship with game productions, we deliver quality solutions that help them work better together.

As a Linux System Administrator (DevOps), you will be responsible for maintaining the good health of our servers and systems in a environment, focusing mainly n operational activities, proactive capacity management and event monitoring. You will also contribute to the execution of various projects and will act as a second level applicative support for the systems under your responsibility.

You will be responsible for:

  • Running the daily operations of systems, such as distributing storage nodes, web and database hosting, as well as other proprietary and open-source software;
  • Resolving all incidents and tasks by providing support on tools and applications used by our internal partners, as well as troubleshooting in emergency situations;
  • Installing and maintaining physical/virtual servers and related software;
  • Monitoring system events to ensure health, maximum system availability and service quality by performing system and application patching, and keeping the operating systems and software up to date;
  • Work closely with developer teams to assess their requirements and ensure the platform is designed with operability and ease-of-use in mind;
  • Coordinating with various internal teams when tasks need to be delegated (ex: firewall configuration);
  • Maintaining updated documentation regarding installation, configuration, operation and troubleshooting procedures related to systems;
  • Participating in defining the standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics;
  • Assisting in evaluating new requirements, technical designs and standards.

*Must be able to work flexible hours and overtime as required (including on-call rotations)

Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field.

Relevant experience

  • 3+ years of experience in systems administration in a 100+ servers environment.

Knowledge & Skills

  • Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems (CentOS 7/8 or related distributions);
  • Good knowledge of internet technologies and concepts such as TCP, UDP and higher-level protocols such as DNS, HTTP;
  • Good knowledge of monitoring solutions like Zabbix;
  • Good knowledge of configuration management applications – CHEF/Ansible;
  • Experience with scripting and automation (ex: bash, Terraform, Python, Ruby);
  • Knowledge of container orchestration tools – Kubernetes/Docker is an asset
  • Knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL database usage and administration is an asset;
  • Knowledge of Elastic stack utilization and manager is an asset;
  • Experience of CI/CD pipeline and technologies around (ex: GitLab CI)is an asset;
  • Knowledge of Windows server 2016/2019 administration is an asset;
  • Experience working with public cloud (AWS) is an asset;
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
  • Must be a self-starter that requires only limited supervision/guidance;
  • Ability to work in a DevOps environment;
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment;
  • Have good interpersonal communication skills (Oral and written comprehension of English and French).

Additional Information

Skills and competencies show up in different forms and can be based on different experiences, that's why we strongly encourage you to apply even though you may not have all the requirements listed above.

At Ubisoft, you can come as you are. We embrace diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to fostering a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.