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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 independently-run 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 you’re passionate about working with technologies for low-latency, large scale systems in a collaborative environment then we’d love to hear from you! This role is based in our Vancouver, BC office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.
Job Responsibility
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 on-call rotation, shared with your team and by Demonware engineers globally
Requirements
8+ 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 software-based 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
What we offer
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