The Senior Systems Administrator will work full time and on-site at my client's Los Angeles studio.

This position is responsible for working with the the operations team to establish and maintain a high performance, highly available game service infrastructure. The role involves working with the lead Systems Administrator and development teams to design and implement all aspects of production environments, development environments, and general systems needs. Only full-time, on-site candidates will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Assist with Systems Administration of production and development environments.
• Share 24/7/365 on call production systems critical problem responsibilities.
• Help troubleshoot and solve issues with hardware, applications, and network components.
• Evaluate and implement hardware and software technologies to improve game efficiency and performance.

Requirements
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience working with Linux (RHEL4/5, CentOS4/5, Ubuntu).
• Experience with some or all of the following: Netfilter, HA – LVS, Apache (httpd, tomcat, activeMQ), mysql, PXE, snmp, monitoring (nagios, cacti), dns, dhcp/bootp, nfs.
• Scripting and programming skills (shell, awk, perl, php).
• Strong background/interest in application and infrastructure design.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working with high-capacity, internet-based infrastructures

Preferred
• Experience working with distributed caching solutions and data grids, most specifically Oracle Coherence

This is a great gig with smart, fun people. Be smart, fun, and into next generation games, or do not apply.