Senior IT Engineer

Description

About ProbablyMonsters™ Studios

ProbablyMonsters Studios is a developer-led independent game company with the mission to unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create exceptional original games while thriving in stable and meaningful careers.

Our 3 studios are each developing an original game:• Firewalk™ is working on a new multiplayer IP to be exclusively published by PlayStation• Cauldron™ is developing a single-player, adventure-driven game• Our RPG Team is creating a next-gen co-op RPG

We recently announced the largest Series A raise in gaming history at $250 million, which provides our teams with the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers. Our Monster mindset of people-first, our ethos of predictable excellence, and our purpose of inspiring a healthier industry has attracted 200+ likeminded professionals who unapologetically defend the sustainable home we have built together, a home free of storms that allows for focused creativity.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior IT Engineer to architect and implement enterprise technology solutions for studio and data center operations.

WHO YOU ARE

• You are respectful, trustworthy, open-minded, and approachable
• You are a passionate mentor
• You strive to build positive and collaborative relationships with other teams
• You are well versed in technology trends in the industry and make a habit of staying current with leading class technologies
• You have a broad set of skills across multiple technical disciplines that are necessary to troubleshoot and perform remediation on complex issues including: Networking, Information Security, System Administration, Data Management, etc
• You excel at architecting, documenting and implementing secure reliable technology systems to be used by internal or external entities
• You enjoy taking ownership over major IT projects and oversee them through to completion
• You are familiar with a hybrid cloud infrastructure
• You can troubleshoot complex technical issues and quickly isolate problems
• You are comfortable communicating complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Work both independently and as a member of a team on complex IT projects
• Own the lifecycle management of enterprise hardware (servers, storage, networking equipment, etc) in our datacenter and office sites
• Forecast usage of datacenter compute, network, and storage to make recommendations on future growth
• Mentor other IT Engineers, System Administrators, and Helpdesk staff by providing high quality technical documentation and hands on mentorship
• Work with our external outsourcing partners to securely provide them with access to our development systems
• Architect and implement highly available systems on prem and/or in cloud to serve the internal studio and business needs
• Work closely with interdisciplinary teams to craft creative IT solutions for a wide variety of problem spaces
• Work as an auxiliary team member of the Information Security team for incident response and mitigation
• Ensure systems deployed are supportable at a production level by providing documentation and tooling for efficient operations

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in IT systems design and implementation preferably in a AAA game studio environment
• Experience managing enterprise storage solutions, including both block and file level services
• Experience administrating both production and non-production environments
• Experience managing virtual machine infrastructure.

BONUS POINTS

• You enjoy playing video games
• Familiarity operating in mixed Windows, MacOS and Linux environments
• Experience with gaming-related technology like streaming systems and development hardware
• Familiarly with Server Clustering and other high availability technologies.
• Experience working with virtual network topologies in both cloud and on prem VM architectures
• Experience designing and implementing networking solutions with enterprise networking hardware
• Familiarity with DevSecOps design philosophy
• Familiarity with Service Meshes and Container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Experience with Ansible or other Configuration Management solutions

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

• A people-first culture founded on respect, trust, approachability, and accountability.
• A stable home that values your potential, deeply cares about your work-life balance, and is committed to investing in your craft and long-term career.
• Competitive benefits package including health and family benefits, employee assistance program, flexible and paid time off, financial benefits and professional and personal development.