Windows Automation & Network Engineer - QDStaff

Join this fast-growing 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.