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Job Description
As a part of Ubisoft IT, you’ll be joining our Hosting team as an On-Premise Cloud infrastructure architect using your set of skills to evolve and grow our environments. The goal is to provide improved features and performance in our worldwide datacenters. Furthermore, you’ll act as a driver of innovation to introduce new technologies, develop and implement a technical vision. The architecture team’s mandate is to innovate and create a high-performance and secure computing environment for internal hosting at Ubisoft. You would apply your knowledge in open-source hosting and networking technologies in an Agile team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Do R&D work to introduce new features, increase scalability, resilience and improve performance of the platform;
- Mentor & guide other team members, foster creativity, mutual respect, and open communication;
- Collaborate with internal game production partners to design and test the platform;
- Help define SLO and SLI following Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to further enhance reliability of the platform;
- Set the example and take a hands-on approach to problem solving;
- Work with internal partners and external vendors to provide input to the hardware procurement process;
- Work with internal partners from the network, hardware and storage teams to develop high performance solutions;
- Build automation into the platform from day one as new features are rolled out;
- Foster good documentation through Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), diagrams and other documents.
Qualifications
- Expert knowledge of Linux kernel host networking, storage, container and virtualization technologies with a focus on performance;
- Expert knowledge operating Openstack based Cloud hosting infrastructure;
- Working knowledge of advanced networking or overlay network technologies on the host such as DPDK, SRIOV, OpenvSwitch or similar;
- Working knowledge to write and maintain scripts or programs in languages such Python, Go;
- Experience working in large scale environments & distributed systems with 300+ servers;
- Effectively understand and communicate both technical and business risks and impacts by using a data driven approach via metrics and other tooling.
Additional Information
Just a heads up: If you require a work permit, your eligibility may depend on your education and years of relevant work experience, as required by the government.
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.
Our offices will be closed for the holiday season to give our teams a well-deserved rest. The processing of your application may take longer than usual, but we will give it our full attention once we return.
Happy Holidays!
