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Capacity Planning Engineer (DemonWare / Activision) (Vancouver, Canada)
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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.
Capacity, Scaling and Infrastructure Group
Demonware's infrastructure consists of over 1,300 servers, 28 Gbps of bandwidth and 60 racks in three separate hosting facilities. Our services respond to over 100 billion API calls from gamers playing Activision's titles every single month. We are looking for exceptional candidates to help manage the growth of these services and the efficient utilisation of our resources.
Demonware's Capacity, Scaling and Infrastructure Group has three broad responsibilities:
• To manage the design and build out of our datacenter facilities and networks.
• Using data captured from both experiments and live systems, to build capacity models which allows us to order the optimum combination of hardware specifications and quantities.
• To ensure that existing and future resources are utilised optimally and to provide troubleshooting expertise and advice on software and hardware scaling issues.
Responsibilities of Capacity Planning Engineer:
• Design & development of a suite of capacity planning tools for our online services
• Capacity utilisation reporting and forecasting for use in budgetary processes
• Service capacity reviews and scale-back planning
• Working with developers and the rest of our operations team to build capacity models for new services and features
• Working with our tools teams to build better predictive alerting and visualisation systems
• Identification of capacity problems before they happen
Essential Requirements:
• Degree in Computer Science related topic
• 2+ years experience working in data-centric software engineering or operational roles
• In-depth understanding of typical problems encountered in large transactional systems
• Proficient in a scripting language + SQL, Python & MySQL preferred
• Software design experience
• Proven analytical and planning skills
• Experience working with UNIX variant Operating Systems
Desired experience:
• Excel (or similar) power user
• Experience working with Matlab or R
To APPLY: Email your CV to jobs@demonware.net
About DemonWare:
DemonWare, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, specializes in online software and services for videogames. Our mission is: great software with quality support at scale. We develop robust, scalable services to support tens of millions of users for titles such as the Call of Duty and Guitar Hero series. Our teams work hand-in-hand with some of the top game development studios in the world, providing them with online software and services needed to power some of the most popular AAA video game titles.
We are. . .
1. solving problems that scale up to millions of active users
2. powering the online communities of 5 of the top 10 best-selling games of all time
3. working on all major hardware platforms and next gen consoles
4. working closely with some of the biggest names in video game development
5. using a wide spectrum of programming languages and open source technologies
6. leading the way with the latest network game technologies
By numbers:
• Our services are used by 180+ million gamers
• We regularly have 2.5 million+ concurrent online gamers
• Demonware software has shipped in 90+ games
• We serve 38,500+ requests per second
• We have an average query response time of < .01 second
• We collect 100,000+ metrics every second
Benefits include: Excellent salary (DOE) w/ annual salary and performance review, medical insurance, pension contributions, generous annual bonus, flexible working practices, paid holidays.
We have offices in Dublin, Ireland and Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.demonware.net.
Published at 14-09-2011
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