Linux Systems Administrator
Palo Alto, CA
COMPANY PROFILE:
Live Gamer combines leading e-commerce software with virtual economy advisory services to help online game publishers, virtual world operators, and social networks create and optimize new transaction-based revenue streams. Founded in 2007, Live Gamer began legitimizing the estimated $2 billion player-to-player market for virtual goods with its Live Gamer Exchange, adopted by leading game publishers including Acclaim, Funcom, GoPets, NHN USA, IAC's InstantAction and Sony Online Entertainment, among others. With the acquisitions of Korea's N-Cash, the world's premiere micro-transaction platform, and U.S. based Twofish, the only virtual economy data platform that harnesses powerful post-purchase intelligence, Live Gamer now offers a total commerce solution to power any transaction-based business model. Headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, CA and Seoul, Korea, the company is led by pioneers in both the gaming and digital entertainment industries and is backed by venture funding from Charles River Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital. For more information, visit www.livegamer.com and www.twofish.com.
DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for a Linux Systems Administrator to add to our Operations Team. In this role, you will be responsible for working with the Development teams, Operations teams, and Management team to maintain and evolve the Live Gamer datacenter infrastructure. You will also be responsible for maintaining and improving our uptime record and performance, monitoring network health, handling both planned and unplanned events, and planning for and executing capacity and capabilities growth as Live Gamer expands. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to learn new software technologies and will be extremely efficient with organizing and completing tasks. Our production systems run on CentOS and combine JBoss, Tomcat, Grails, and MySQL.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Maintain and improve our application deployment processes.
Improve our current monitoring, tools, procedures, and site reliability.
Monitor service stability and performance.
Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network.
Prioritize tasks and work independently, while interacting with product and engineering team.
Configure servers and network.
Write scripts to monitor and automate processes.
Document current and future configuration processes and policies.
Actively participate in all aspects of engineering decision making.
REQUIREMENTS:
5+ years of experience with Linux.
3+ years of experience with Nagios.
2+ years experience with a configuration management systems (Puppet,BCFG2, CFEngine, etc
)
Experience deploying JBoss applications on Linux in a SaaS environment.
Experience in an Operations department of large-scale Internet services.
Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Ruby or Python preferred)
Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, storage, SQL databases, subversion, and memcached
Strong network experience.
Excellent communication skills, practical problem solving skills, flexibility and a good sense of humor are required!
PREFERENCE GIVEN TO APPLICANTS WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:
B.S. in Computer Science
Experience in a highly secure environment.
Previous experience with PCI compliance.
Experience with VMWare.
BENEFITS:
Our employees are our most valuable resource; therefore we provide them with competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and stock options.
HOW TO APPLY:
Qualified applicants should send your resume and a cover letter summarizing how your background matches the requirements to our jobs@twofish.com. Please use Linux Systems Admin in the subject line of your email.
Thank you for your interest in Live Gamer, Inc. and Twofish, Inc.
Proof of authorization to work in the United States is required.
No agency solicitations, please.
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
