Gazillion Entertainment, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher and operator of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games for wide audiences. With team members from Apple, Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft Game Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and many other leading companies, Gazillion has assembled talent from across the landscape of MMOs, console videogames, animated feature films and technology to address the mission of building breakthrough MMOs capable of resonating with wide audiences. Privately-held and backed by leading venture capitalists, Gazillion is comprised of four wholly-owned production studios as well as publishing, operations and an innovative online payments group.
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Gazillion has four independent but wholly owned MMO development studios located in California, Colorado, and Washington currently in production on such titles as the Marvel Super Hero Squad and Marvel Universe MMOs, LEGO Universe, Jumpgate Evolution and as yet unannounced AAA MMOs.
The company also owns the award-winning SmartyCard payment service for younger audiences which works with leading online games and more.
Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Senior Linux Systems Administrator to be a key member of the IT/Game Operations Team. Assist with Linux server architecture, deployment, integration, maintenance, monitoring and support. The day to day tasks include remote configuration, automated installations, systems integration and architecture, troubleshooting, hardening and deployment of Linux and Linux-based application servers on company administered hardware as well as remote datacenter hardware.
Requirements:
* Previous production datacenter (customer facing) experience a must * Experience with administering Linux: RedHat/CentOS * Strong shell and perl scripting skills on Linux systems * Hands-on support: mostly done remotely, for lab machines, development machines, and production machines in a variety of environments * Creation and deployment of configurations, system architecture and integration, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, system hardening and data security, data backup; phone/email correspondence with local and remote staff * System administration for open source application servers and services: Apache/Tomcat, SSH, NFS, MySQL, PHP, SMTP, vsftpd, etc. * Thorough understanding of the TCP/IP Suite (TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP, etc.) as well SNMP * Thorough understanding of and ability to maintain custom kickstart and yum repositories * Thorough understanding of RPM, rpmbuild and custom package creation and management * Continually strive to automate and streamline operations and maintenance processes by identifying areas of improvement, writing scripts, and documentation * Excellent communication, organization, project prioritization, and time management skills * Keen troubleshooting skills * Experience with IBM and HP production grade blade and rack mount server and SAN hardware, including associated Linux management tools * Experience with advanced installation, administration and patch maintenance of Linux based applications (such as MySQL, Apache and PHP) * Experience with VMware virtualized Linux servers a huge plus * Experience with TIBCO EMS a plus * Experience with ControlTier a plus * Prior roles working with managed data center providers for equipment deployment beneficial * Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and without direct supervision * Willingness to work after hours and weekends as required by running a production environment; willing to be "on call" during these hours as needs arises
