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Service Reliability Engineer (DemonWare / Activision) (Vancouver)
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DemonWare, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, are specialists in creating client and server-side networking software and services for video games such as Guitar Hero, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As a software services company we develop and deploy robust, scalable services to support millions of users often with often rapid turn around times.
Position summary:
The Service Reliability Engineering Group manages more than 1300 servers used to host DemonWare's on-line services, supporting some of the most popular computer games in the world today.
Responsibilities of the Service Reliability Engineer (SRE):
• Managing infrastructure
• Tracking and scheduling the following:
o OS/OS vendor updates
o Network equipment software/firmware updates
o Demonware software updates (based on packaging and documentation from DevOps team)
o External tools/service updates (e.g. Hadoop)
o Adding/removing hardware to/from service clusters
• Monitoring and metrics
o Ensure monitoring and metrics systems are operational
o Ensure configuration for monitoring and metric systems are up to date
• Problems and outages
o Second-line support to the front-line operations team
Essential:
• Administration experience of Debian and Red Hat based Linux servers
• Can work under high pressure
• Quick learner
• Very comfortable working with Linux based systems
• Good understanding of database technologies
• Able to automate every task he or she does
• Strong scripting skills: Unix shell programming and at ideally at least one of Perl, Python or Ruby
• Should know how to script tasks involving SQL, XML and network operations in a Linux environment
• Strong analytical / troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to spend up to 1 week per month on call
Desired:
• Experience of Windows Servers
• In-depth knowledge of IP based networking
• Administration of services on Linux servers (Apache, Postfix, MySQL etc.)
• SQL databases - MySQL preferred
• Web services development (e.g. XML-RPC, REST)
Benefits include:
Excellent salary (DOE) w/ annual salary and performance review, medical insurance, pension contributions, generous annual bonus, flexible working practices, and 25+ days vacation allowance
APPLY:
Email your CV to jobs@demonware.net.
About the Company:
DemonWare is an Irish technology company acquired by Activision in 2007. Now part of Activisions' Central Technology group, we work hand-in-hand with some of the top game development studios in the world, providing them with online software and services powering some of the biggest AAA games in the world.
• DemonWare's software has shipped in 90+ games
• DemonWare services are used by 170+ million gamers
• Our hosted services regularly have in excess of 2M+ concurrent online gamers
• Our hosted services have an average query response time of less than .01 seconds
• Key studios: Blizzard, Neversoft, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, High Moon, Vicarious Visions, Raven, Sledgehammer
• Key franchises/titles: Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Blur, Battle.net
We have city centre offices in Dublin, Ireland and Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.demonware.net.
Position summary:
The Service Reliability Engineering Group manages more than 1300 servers used to host DemonWare's on-line services, supporting some of the most popular computer games in the world today.
Responsibilities of the Service Reliability Engineer (SRE):
• Managing infrastructure
• Tracking and scheduling the following:
o OS/OS vendor updates
o Network equipment software/firmware updates
o Demonware software updates (based on packaging and documentation from DevOps team)
o External tools/service updates (e.g. Hadoop)
o Adding/removing hardware to/from service clusters
• Monitoring and metrics
o Ensure monitoring and metrics systems are operational
o Ensure configuration for monitoring and metric systems are up to date
• Problems and outages
o Second-line support to the front-line operations team
Essential:
• Administration experience of Debian and Red Hat based Linux servers
• Can work under high pressure
• Quick learner
• Very comfortable working with Linux based systems
• Good understanding of database technologies
• Able to automate every task he or she does
• Strong scripting skills: Unix shell programming and at ideally at least one of Perl, Python or Ruby
• Should know how to script tasks involving SQL, XML and network operations in a Linux environment
• Strong analytical / troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to spend up to 1 week per month on call
Desired:
• Experience of Windows Servers
• In-depth knowledge of IP based networking
• Administration of services on Linux servers (Apache, Postfix, MySQL etc.)
• SQL databases - MySQL preferred
• Web services development (e.g. XML-RPC, REST)
Benefits include:
Excellent salary (DOE) w/ annual salary and performance review, medical insurance, pension contributions, generous annual bonus, flexible working practices, and 25+ days vacation allowance
APPLY:
Email your CV to jobs@demonware.net.
About the Company:
DemonWare is an Irish technology company acquired by Activision in 2007. Now part of Activisions' Central Technology group, we work hand-in-hand with some of the top game development studios in the world, providing them with online software and services powering some of the biggest AAA games in the world.
• DemonWare's software has shipped in 90+ games
• DemonWare services are used by 170+ million gamers
• Our hosted services regularly have in excess of 2M+ concurrent online gamers
• Our hosted services have an average query response time of less than .01 seconds
• Key studios: Blizzard, Neversoft, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, High Moon, Vicarious Visions, Raven, Sledgehammer
• Key franchises/titles: Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Blur, Battle.net
We have city centre offices in Dublin, Ireland and Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.demonware.net.
Published at 25-08-2011
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