Job Title:
Senior Network Engineer - Demonware - Vancouver, BC

Requisition ID:
R027521

Job Description:

This role is based in our Vancouver, BC office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

Your Mission

We are looking for a talented Senior Network Engineer to join our Platform Department and help form technical direction and standard methodologies for our current and future needs. While this role will be based in our Vancouver office, the team is based across the world (Vancouver, Shanghai & Dublin).

You will improve efficiency in our existing hardware fleet and services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the demands of ourselves and our internal customers.

You will drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible. Our goal is to provide data centre and cloud infrastructure in a secure, scalable and repeatable way!

What you bring to the table

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Work on key infrastructure projects involving multiple teams
• Troubleshoot and debug, often in collaboration with other teams
• Provide network infrastructure for virtualized and containerized workloads to other teams in Demonware
• Run network infrastructure in our data centres encompassing provisioning, and overall lifecycle management
• Act as an escalation point for networks and services owned by the team
• Be part of our on-call rotation, shared with your team and by Demonware engineers globally

Player Profile

Minimum requirements:

• 8+ years practical data centre network experience, preferably working with large scale networks in a global 24/7 environment
• Solid grasp of 2, or more, of the following areas: TCP/IP, Routing & Switching, Load Balancer technologies, Firewall technologies
• Experience with compute and network hardware and architecture
• A desire to automate all the things
• Tenacity for debugging and solving technology problems at root cause
• Familiarity with network services (e.g. BGP, NAT, VPN, VXLAN, EVPN)
• Familiarity with common system services, as they interact with the network, (e.g. PXE, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SNMP)
• Strong scripting skills: Unix shell programming and ideally Python
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM) and/or Linux containers (e.g. LXC/LXD, Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking model and concepts such as pod networking, overlays, network policy and ingress
• Familiarity with software-based network functions and application in a Kubernetes environment, e.g. iptables, IPVS, routing on the host (RoH), open source routing daemons (bird, frr), reverse proxies and ingress controllers

Your Platform

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We work alongside engineers and creatives at our AAA partner studios and deliver the online and data services required by our massive franchises. We have launched well over 100 games, and our services connect multiple millions of players every single day into epic entertainment experiences.

While Call of Duty continues to push us to build bigger and better systems year on year. We also have a strong history of supporting great franchises such as Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot, Destiny, Diablo, Guitar Hero, and Skylanders.

Our success comes from our versatile and hardworking people. Our work environment is welcoming and collaborative, we deliver on time and at scale.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Extended health plan, including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, for employees and their dependents, as well as disability insurance;
• RRSP with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other benefit programs like supplemental life & critical illness, legal service, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.

The standard base pay range for this role is $100,220.00 - $197,758.00 CAD. These values reflect the expected annualized base pay range of new hires in British Columbia, Canada. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.