About our Infrastructure Team
The Infrastructure team plays an key role in the maintenance and expansion of our game environments. Working closely with the platform and game groups, the Infrastructure team takes the lead in developing strategies to continue the rapid expansion of our gaming playing audience, an audience already measured in the hundreds of thousands.
The Infrastructure team works across a variety of platforms with a strong emphasis on BSD.
Typical projects handled by Infrastructure include:
- Implementing software solutions to automate infrastructure management.
- Creating new build and deployment tools.
- Working with external open-source projects to implement new features.
- Managing the physical deployment of our servers and hardware.
We are a company committed to engineering excellence. We consider this the single defining feature of our business. We also recognize that engineering excellence is sharpened by new and exciting challenges. As we grow and expand the services we offer, we expect our Infrastructure group will continue to handle new and exiting projects.
Three Rings seeks a senior UNIX/network Administrator to join our Infrastructure Team. You will be involved in maintaining our current production and corporate systems as well as engineering new infrastructure and software to address our ongoing needs. This includes, but is not limited to: security, network capacity planning, network design (LAN/WAN), hardware and software maintenance, ongoing network configuration management, and ownership of all networking and related hardware - routers, switches, firewalls, server load balancers. If you are a connoisseur of open source who likes to dig in and get things done, then this will be your dream job.
Responsibilities:
- Install and configure hardware in the production environment.
- Install and configure network monitoring, trending and reporting.
- Monitor and respond to production system emergencies.
- Work on a range of Network, Security and Unix System projects.
- Take an active role in our corporate software projects, from our web sites (Java) to our OpenVPN LDAP authenticator (Objective-C).
- Interface with open source projects, fixing bugs and adding features as necessary.
- Work closely with the engineering teams on Layer 4-7 design and troubleshooting.
- Maintain production operations documentation.
Requirements:
- Must be intimately familiar with 4.4BSD derived operating systems.
- Experience with scripting and high-level languages.
- Extensive knowledge of networks and routing protocols.
- Experience in maintaining production commercial networks.
- Familiarity using LDAP for authentication/authorization.
- Understanding of firewall design, implementation and security techniques.
- Experience with secure mail server design, jabber administration, dns administration, apache, etc.
- Knowledge of load balancing and content switching.
- Knowledge of Monitoring frameworks such as Nagios, cacti or Hyperic.
- Willingness to fully document all systems and code.
- Love for solving problems and being part of a World class team.
Bonus Knowledge Points:
- Extensive knowledge of a higher-level language, such as Perl, Python, Tcl, Objective-C, Java or Ruby.
- Practical knowledge of SQL, and an appreciation of ACID-compliant database systems.
- In-depth understanding of x509 Infrastructure and LDAP authentication.
- Experience with CFEngine.
- Experience with Virtualization (Xen, Amazon's EC2 and S3).
Application Process
Please apply via email to jobs@threerings.net including:
- Your resume in plain text in the body of the message. You may also include a PDF document, but no other attachments, please.
- A Wild West subject line. Just so we know that you're paying attention, pardner.
- Any URLs with descriptions where we can peruse some of your work. Personal projects, open-source contributions, CVSweb entries, mailing list posts, and bug reports are good candidates for inclusion.
Short-listed candidates will be asked to complete a paid 'challenge' assignment.