Description
Would you like to work for one of the most popular interactive media and entertainment brands on the planet? This company has a terrific contract opening for a System Engineer capable of supporting development teams for high-visibility online games platforms!
OVERVIEW:
- Work with operations to bring up hardware (physical and virtual)
- Work with operations to configure application stack (physical and virtual)
- Work with in-house development teams as necessary to test and deploy new projects to hardware
- Work with in-house development, operations, and DBA's to determine data distribution (sharding)
- Work with operations to configure load balancers
- Work with technology teams to troubleshoot issues and bring them to resolution
- Troubleshoot application code and performance of code (PHP, Ruby and Java)
- Manage CDN resources
- Manage SVN and GIT repositories
- Traditional build and release duties
- Day to day system administration, tuning, scaling operations
- Improve operations processes
- Incident management- own outages from reporting to resolution, ensure that customers are kept informed of the progress
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum 2 year of experience with MySQL, Membase
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Linux systems administrator
- Minimum 4 years of experience in Perl, Ruby, PHP, and/or Java
- In-depth knowledge of the platform technology including but not limited to the operating system, information systems, and software architecture that development teams use
- Strong Linux background, Ubuntu or other Debian distribution
- Strong communication skills
- Strong troubleshooting abilities
This contract position is expected to be 6 months in duration.