Associate Principal Linux Systems Engineer

Rockstar Games • New York, NY

8d • Onsite

About The Position

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.
Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
Rockstar is on the lookout for a passionate Associate Principal Linux Systems Engineer who is skilled at building and supporting Linux environments that are highly redundant and scalable.
This is a full-time, in-office position based out of Rockstar’s NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan.
WHAT WE DO
24x7 Linux operations of our online games, features, and services.
Hands-on support to the operations of online and development environments.
Build and plan infrastructure for upcoming releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, IT certifications, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years’ experience in a Linux environment using related technologies and standards such as DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Kerberos, CIFS/SMB.
• In-depth hands-on experience with RHEL or CentOS as well as configuration management experience with either Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience administering systems in a high traffic, multi-system, public facing environment.
• Experience configuring and maintaining Apache servers.
• Experience administering one of the following: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Mongo, Hadoop (Hive, HDFS, Impala, Oozie), MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Possess a thorough understanding of network protocols and standards such as TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/S and SSL/PKI.
• Experience working with major CDN providers.
• Experience scripting in one of the following languages: Bash, Python, PHP, or Perl.
• Experience with REST API automation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting online game development and production environments.
• General Cisco IOS administration experience for adding removing VLANS and LACP bonds.
• Knowledge of PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on maintenance and administration of Linux based systems.
• Perform patching and support server migrations as needed.
• Develop standard operating procedures to ensure high availability.
• Perform routine system maintenance when needed to resolve issues.
• Support root cause analysis efforts across multiple infrastructure layers.
• Ensure a highly available production environment particularly during system maintenances.
• Administer monitoring services such as Check_MK, Splunk, Grafana and Graphite.
• Provide timely and creative solutions to difficult problems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level