Location: Austin, TX
URL: http://www.bioware.com
The BioWare Label is a division of EA which crafts high quality multiplatform role-playing, MMO, social, play-for-free and strategy games, focused on emotionally engaging, rich stories with unforgettable characters and vast worlds to discover. Since 1995, BioWare has created some of the world's most critically acclaimed titles and franchises, including Baldur's Gate™, Neverwinter Nights™, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™, Jade Empire™, Mass Effect™ and Dragon Age™.
BioWare Austin is seeking a Systems Administrator. Duties will include direct oversight of BioWare Austin’s production and development infrastructure for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The Systems Administrator will be a key component in the delivery of Web and Platform releases to development and production environments. The Systems Administrator will identify architecture enhancement and automation opportunities for BioWare Austin’s online infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversees the delivery of Web, Platform and Customer Support services to development and production environments
- Oversees the management of BioWare Austin’s CDN (Akamai).
- Performs performance monitoring and analysis of online infrastructure.
- Using MySQL and Oracle provides provisioning, backups, replication, and performance management.
- Provides strategic architectural guidance and expertise in building and maintaining a production systems environment.
- Develops and maintains key automation tools for streamlining workflow and systems management.
- Configures Netscaler or applications, security and high availability.
- Develops high availability, disaster recovery planning and database replication.
- Maintains build platforms and scripts for Web, Platform and Customer Support tool development.
- Installs, configures, and tests operating systems as well as open-source, commercial and/or proprietary software to meet development and support requirements.
- Maintains storage solutions and documentation of systems configurations and procedures.
- Works with hardware and software vendors to resolve hardware outages and software issues.
- Provides Tier 3 level troubleshooting to the production and development environments.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science preferred or 3+ years systems administration experience
- 3-5 years minimum of relevant experience in Linux/Unix Systems administration, including design, implementation, ongoing administration, and support of critical systems
- Understanding of AD and DNS architecture management; GSLB concepts a plus
- Experience managing a Red Hat variant Linux environment, including provisioning and package management
- Hands-on experience working with various network technologies â€" VPN, Firewall, Ethernet Switches & Routers, Sniffers, TCP/IP, Network Subnetting, VLANs, Cat5e/Cat6
- Experience with content management services (Puppet or similar), and deployment automation
- Proficient Linux scripting skills in Perl, Python or similar
- Understanding of the implementation requirements of client-server and peer-to-peer networking models
- MySQL, and Oracle database experience; Golden Gate experience a plus
- Experience and knowledge of best practices for security and incident management
- 5+ years of experience with storage management; NetApp experience a plus
- 5+ years of experience with virtualization technologies; VMware, Citrix Xen experience a plus
- Strong troubleshooting experience and skills; experience with Splunk and/or AppDynamics a plus
- 3+ years of experience with CDN technologies
- 5+ years of experience with Windows servers
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to phone or email inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
To apply: Apply at http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/jobs/austin_jobs/
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