Senior Network Engineer - Demonware - Dublin, IRL

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Job Title: Senior Network Engineer - Demonware - Dublin, IRL Requisition ID: R027521 Job Description: Want to be responsible for the gaming experience of millions of players? How about building the infrastructure that supports players from around the world? Demonware is an independently-run part of Activision Blizzard. We run every part of the players' online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders. Our services impact almost half a billion players, we take on big company challenges with a small company feel. If you're passionate about working with technologies for low-latency, large scale systems in a collaborative environment then we'd love to hear from you! This role is based in our Dublin, Ireland 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 Dublin 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. Our World At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We're driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our "press start" is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences. We're not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we're forgi