ZeniMax Online Studios, a division of ZeniMax Media, is a premier developer and worldwide publisher of world-class online games at our headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland, including the recently announced The Elder Scrolls Online.
For more information on ZeniMax Online Studios, please visit us at www.zenimaxonline.com.
Senior System Engineer
Division: ZeniMax Online Studios | Department: Network Operations | Location: Hunt Valley, US-MD, US
- Designs, implements, and manages both local and wide-area networks of machines spanning multiple datacenters on multiple continents
- Recommends additions and changes to information system standards, policies and procedures
- Rapidly troubleshoots service outages
- Effectively communicates technical information to Network Operations staff members and other corporate-wide staff
- Assists with the evaluation and purchase of services and/or product and inventory of computer hardware, software, cabling and communication products
- Provides monitoring, disaster recovery, and network hardware support
- Maintains up-to-date detailed documentation
- Provides strong project management skills
- Mentors novice system administrators or operators
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- More than five years of previous LINUX/UNIX system administration experience
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customers or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper management
- Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to quickly assess and prioritize
- Flexible and adaptive; ability to provide structure where appropriate and needed
- A solid understanding of the UNIX/Linux operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use performance analysis to tune systems
- A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts
- Ability to program in an administrative language (Perl, a shell)
- MMO system administration experience
- Experience with Ethernet VLANs, switched internetworking, VPN, and MPLS circuits
- Programming background in any applicable language
- Publications within the field of system administration
NOTE* This position can be located in Austin, TX or Hunt Valley, MD
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