Systems Administrator

Our client is a world leader in interactive online entertainment and Real Time graphics seeking a talented and experienced individual to engineer, implement, and administer technology initiatives supporting and enhancing our products and infrastructure. This position will have responsibility for the administration and maintenance of the group's source code management systems and services, provisioning and maintenance of development systems (physical and virtual systems), administration of data archive systems (near-line and tape backup systems), as well as the typical daily systems administration duties associated with a heterogeneous development and production environment.

This position will also have on-going responsibility to participate in the design, engineering, and implementation of solutions to streamline development environments based on the needs of production teams. This will include but is not limited to: physical/virtual server provisioning and support, OS installation and support, user account management, liaise with IT for support of development hardware and services where appropriate.

The candidate must be familiar with contemporary build systems for C++, Java, PHP, Flash and web technologies. The candidate must be familiar with applications containing 2D, 3D, and sound elements, as well as asset pipelines, and content and configuration management systems. The candidate must be capable of managing these systems in a production environment and knowledgeable about operating them on Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems in distributed geographic locations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Provision and administer systems
- Execute level-2 and level-3 on-call duties
- Execute scheduled maintenance
- Execute software, platform, content, and configuration upgrades
- Perform daily systems administration duties
- Provide end user support for core services
- Develop tools and systems to monitor and report on system performance and utilization of development and production systems
- Provide extemporized analysis of client, server, and infrastructure performance
- Develop tools to assist in the execution of customer service and operations tasks
- Develop long-term data archiving solutions
- Participate in the development of high-performance clustered database solutions

QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- Experience as a Systems Administrator in a heterogeneous environment
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP and computer networking
- Familiarity with VMware and Xen virtual machines
- Familiarity with widely-deployed Internet protocols and technologies
- Experience with patch management and image deployment
- Understanding service delivery concepts (SLA's, monitoring, on-call, escalation and handoff procedures)
- Unix Shell Scripting (Bash, Perl, Python)

DESIRED SKILLS

- Advanced working knowledge of Mac OS, Windows, and Unix operating systems
- Experience with C/C++ build environments
- Experience with web application development and hosting (Apache, HTML, PHP, JSP and JSP)
- Experience with data analysis (reporting via SQL, visualization with Excel)
- Experience with non-Linux Unix environments (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Irix)

OFF-HOURS SCHEDULE

- Incident response coverage of critical systems
- Occasional scheduled maintenance of core systems
- Off-hours coverage not to require overtime

This contract position is expected to be 12 months in duration.