ZeniMax Online Studios is looking for a Live Services Manager to join our Live Services team. As a Live Services Manager, you have in-depth experience launching and supporting online products with a focus on delivering high quality service to a large population. The Live Services Manager provides direction to the community, support and feature teams based on the production schedule. You will also work with business leadership to coordinate and deploy Marketing, PR, Legal and other departmental efforts tied to your product. Excellent candidates will be comfortable preparing and managing complicated maintenances and incidents, particularly emphasizing overall organizational success by reducing downtime while minimizing risk to the business.

Responsibilities

Prepare and manage maintenances for all game realms and associated services in the production environment
Assist in identification and resolution of production incidents, including player and stakeholder communication
Gain knowledge of the game and services tech stacks in order to assist in troubleshooting and triage of issues
Negotiate and coordinate resources for scheduled and emergent production activities
Manage handoffs between your team and teams that are up and downstream
Collect, distribute, and pursue completion of continuous improvement items
Prioritize open issues based on quantifiable business justification
Record and analyze downtime for maintenances and incidents

Qualifications

You are the type of person who is calm in the face of adversity. You are quick to analyze information and provide a direction or conclusion based on the information you have. You have many examples of how something went in an unexpected direction, and your teams succeeded against all odds.

You are dedicated to the team delivering. You own whatever activity for which you volunteer. As a result, you are willing to work in an on-call environment to insure the success of the initiative. When facing a blocker, you came up with resourceful ways to attain your objectives.

You are driven by overall success and love of learning. Your tendency is to be self-reflective and contemplative, desiring to improve from what you learn throughout the process.

2+ years in a position where you directly managed deployments of live services
2+ years in a position where your problem-solving skills contributed to the resolution of production incidents
Working knowledge of the following systems/technologies:
- Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu)
- Monitoring and trending systems (Nagios, Cacti, Graphite, Grafana, etc.)
- Cloud technologies (AWS)
- Container orchestration and operations (Kubernetes, Dockers, kops)
- Databases (MySQL, MariaDB)
- Load balancers (F5, HAProxy)
- Storage/SAN
Prior experience in a 24/7 on call rotation supporting business critical applications or systems is preferable
Game industry experience is desirable, but not required

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.