Senior Network Engineer - Demonware Vancouver
Senior Network Engineer - Demonware Vancouver
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Job Title:
Senior Network Engineer Demonware (Vancouver)Requisition ID:
R024809Job Description:
Want to be responsible for the gaming experience of millions of players How about building the infrastructure that supports players from around the world
Demonware is an independentlyrun part of Activision Blizzard. We run every part of the players online experience from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.
Our services impact almost half a billion players we take on big company challenges with a small company feel.
If youre passionate about working with technologies for lowlatency large scale systems in a collaborative environment then wed love to hear from you!
Your Mission
We are looking for a talented Senior Network Engineer to join our Platform Department and help form technical direction and standard methodologies for our current and future needs. While this role will be based in our Vancouver office the team is based across the world (Dublin Shanghai & Vancouver).
You will improve efficiency in our existing hardware fleet and services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the demands of ourselves and our internal customers.
You will drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible. Our goal is to provide data centre and cloud infrastructure in a secure scalable and repeatable way!
What you bring to the table
Priorities can often change in a fastpaced environment like ours so this role includes but is not limited to the following responsibilities:
- Work on key infrastructure projects involving multiple teams
- Troubleshoot and debug often in collaboration with other teams
- Provide network infrastructure for virtualized and containerized workloads to other teams in Demonware
- Run network infrastructure in our data centres encompassing provisioning and overall lifecycle management
- Act as an escalation point for networks and services owned by the team
- Be part of our oncall rotation shared with your team and by Demonware engineers globally
Player Profile
Minimum requirements:
- 5 years practical data centre network experience preferably working with large scale networks in a global 24/7 environment
- Solid grasp of 2 or more of the following areas: TCP/IP Routing & Switching Load Balancer technologies Firewall technologies
- Experience with compute and network hardware and architecture
- A desire to automate all the things
- Tenacity for debugging and solving technology problems at root cause
- Familiarity with network services (e.g. BGP NAT VPN VXLAN EVPN)
- Familiarity with common system services as they interact with the network (e.g. PXE DNS DHCP NFS SNMP)
- Strong scripting skills: Unix shell programming and ideally Python
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM) and/or Linux containers (e.g. LXC/LXD Docker)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes networking model and concepts such as pod networking overlays network policy and ingress
- Familiarity with softwarebased network functions and application in a Kubernetes environment e.g. iptables IPVS routing on the host (RoH) open source routing daemons (bird frr) reverse proxies and ingress controllers
Your Platform
Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We work alongside engineers and creatives at our AAA partner studios and deliver the online and data services required by our massive franchises. We have launched well over 100 games and our services connect multiple millions of players every single day into epic entertainment experiences.
While Call of Duty continues to push us to build bigger and better systems year on year. We also have a strong history of supporting great franchises such as Tony Hawk Crash Bandicoot Destiny Diablo Guitar Hero and Skylanders.
Our success comes from our versatile and hardworking people. Our work environment is welcoming and collaborative we deliver on time and at scale.
Our World
At Activision we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. Were driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty Crash Bandicoot Tony Hawks Pro Skater and Guitar Hero. As a leading worldwide developer publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products our press start is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative fun thrilling and engaging entertainment experiences.
Were not just looking back at our decadeslong legacy; were forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate creative and diverse teams within our organization.
Were in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater this could be your opportunity to level up.
Ready to Activate Your Future
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position please email your request to . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
The videogame industry and therefore our business is fastpaced and will continue to evolve. As such the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age marital status veteran status or disability status among other characteristics.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial wellbeing for Every World weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Extended health plan including medical dental vision life and AD&D insurance for employees and their dependents as well as disability insurance;
- RRSP with Company match tuition reimbursement charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation paid sick time compassion and bereavement leaves parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs fitness programs free and discounted games and a variety of other benefit programs like supplemental life & critical illness legal service and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary fulltime employees and interns with the Company.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
