Windows Automation & Network Engineer

Join this fast-growing pre-IPO game development company in Boca Raton, FL as an IT engineer to support the infrastructure and DevOps of over 100 game developers.

The IT engineer manages, develops, and improves tools for the enhancement of software development operations for a fast-growing online game software development company. The engineer will manage and support network, security, and virtual server infrastructure using best-of-breed technologies.

This is the perfect role for a self motivated, detail oriented, highly creative engineer who, given wide latitude, can improve the infrastructure that forms the foundation of this high tech company.

Responsibilities:

Integrate, automate and improve the IT infrastructure for software development, packaging and publishing operations

Integrate, automate and improve the DevOps infrastructure for over 100 game engineering professionals

Support a small footprint of administrative technology for business operations.

Support operations in 4 location and over 100 personnel in North America

Architect, design, deploy and support new infrastructure solutions in the following areas:

Network Administration and Security (40%)

Servers & Virtualization (VMWare, Windows and Linux) Administration (30%)

DevOps Engineering (15%)

DB & Analytics (10%)

Workstations (PCs / Mac) / Mobile Devices / Printers (5%)

Architect, design, deploy and support new facilities and on premises hardware and installed software

Expertise & Experience:

Required Up-To-Date Hands-On Expertise Configuring, Administering, Supporting, Deploying:

Cisco / Dell / Juniper Switches and Routers

Next-Gen Firewalls

Endpoint Security Management

Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, CA with O365

PowerShell

VMware vSphere 7/8, ESXI

Windows Server

Linux (basic operations)

iSCSI-based Storage Area Networks

SQL Server (2012+) Administration - server admin not database admin

Workstation operating systems: Windows PCs, MacOs and Linux

Desirable Expertise:

GitLab & Git Clients

Kubernetes

GitLab CI / CD

Docker

Power BI or equivalent

Microsoft Azure Insights

SQL Databases, App Insights, Stream Analytics and Machine Learning

Microsoft/Google/AWS Cloud

Work Experience

Knowledge of automation and continuous integration (2+ years)

Setting up CI/CD pipelines (1+ years)

Managing performance, availability, and scale for mid to large sized systems. (2+ years)

Managing & maintaining networks, servers in a heterogenous environment (5+ years)

Source Control Management (2+ years)

Iterative/agile (e.g. SCRUM, XP) methodologies (1+ years)

Education

Bachelor degree or above in Computer Engineering or related discipline preferred (but not required)

Professional Skills

Strong sense of responsibility and ability to work independently

Resourcefulness

Good interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated, detail minded and result oriented.

Team player who values team success

Wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected

Excellent verbal & written skills

Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Benefits:

All benefits begin and are vested immediately.

Zero deductible health care coverage

30 days sick time

17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays

4% 401k match

Up to 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance

Location:

This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL

It is in-office 5 days per week

Relocation expenses are paid

Applicants should expect to complete an Assessment Evaluation as part of the interview process.

About the company:

This four studio software engineering company is averaging a 25% annual employee growth rate. With a median tenure of almost 4 years, employees are embracing the opportunity to innovate and personally contribute to global hit games in the world's leading portfolio of games.

With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is adopting leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their games are achieving fast market penetration, high player satisfaction and superior quality. They recruit for attitude and aptitude. They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their distributed studio approach to growth. You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development.