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ZeniMax Online Studios (ZOS) seeks an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to work in a team environment that will help extend, automate, and monitor the infrastructure platform for The Elder Scrolls Online and future projects.

You will help create and support a reliable, secure, scalable environment to provide the best gaming experience for our end users. You will also work closely with other engineering teams to better understand their software, enabling you to adapt the platform to their needs. You will be responsible for ensuring that ZOS is able to reliably build and deploy new product versions, deliver new features to our customers, and introduce change into those systems in a safe way. Must be able to support our systems via an after-hours on-call rotation.

You should have a passion for producing quality deliverables in a timely manner. You will be working in a fast paced (Agile) environment, following a structured build and publishing process.

Responsibilities

  • Help create and support a reliable, secure, scalable environment to provide the best gaming experience for our end users

  • Work closely with other engineering teams to better understand their software enabling you to adapt the platform to their needs

  • Exemplify a passion for producing quality deliverables in a timely manner

  • Work in a fast paced (Agile) environment, following a structured build and publishing process

  • Comfortably and confidently work with and learn from an experienced team as a technology generalist (who may have demonstrated significant specialization in previous positions)

  • Participate in a 24/7 on call rotation supporting business critical processes and systems

Qualifications

  • 6+ years’ experience

  • Proficient with Python

  • Must possess experience in supporting mission critical live environments with:

    • Core system services: BIND, Sendmail, Samba, Rsync, NTP, NFS, etc.

    • Web servers (Apache, Nginx, etc.) and application frameworks (PHP, Tomcat, JBOSS, etc.)

    • System and Application Logging: syslog-ng, rsyslog, Splunk, etc.

    • Source code management: Git, Perforce, etc.

    • RedHat or Debian package creation and repository management

    • SQL or NoSQL databases: MySQL, MariaDB, etc.

    • Configuration Management Tools: Chef, etc.

    • Continuous Integration: TeamCity, etc.

  • Must have some experience automating system tasks and monitoring infrastructure deployment using a scripting language: Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.

  • Must have experience programmatically working with APIs: REST, etc.

Preferred Skills

  • Knowledge of Akamai CDN, Go, PowerShell, vSphere/VMware

  • Experience with virtual machine and template tooling: Packer, Vagrant, etc.

  • Hobbyist programming background

  • Author a technical blog or Github page with code samples

  • A passion for security tools and best practices: OS hardening, vulnerability scanning, system auditing

  • Linux networking experience is a plus, this includes routing, NAT, VLAN, and bridging