IT Engineer

Overlook the ocean and work out on the beach at lunch. Join this fast-growing game development studio in Boca Raton, FL near Fort Lauderdale as an IT operations engineer to support the infrastructure and DevOps of nationwide software teams.

The IT infrastructure engineer manages, develops, and improves tools for the enhancement of software development operations for a fast-growing online casino game software development company. The engineer will manage and support network, security, and virtual server infrastructure using best-of-breed technologies.

Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Network Administration and Security (25%)

• Manage and maintenance Wireless infrastructure and Mobile Devices (Apple & Android-based)
• Support and recommend networking improvements to ensure maximum protection to company IP assets and performance of the network.
• Firewall Administration
• Endpoint Security (McAfee)
• Physical security systems (DVR, Access control, etc.)
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance Management

Servers & Virtualization (VMWare, Windows and Linux) Administration (20%)

• Maintains and administers servers and related computing environments, including hardware, servers, systems software, application software and all configurations.
• Microsoft Active Directory / Office 365 Environment & Servers Administration
• Monitor and maintain technology to ensure maximum access and performance (Servers, VMWare, Backup/Restore Processes, Network Performance, Security Activities)
• Support Test/Development environment (External to our company)

Workstations (PCs / Mac) / Mobile Devices / Printers (20%)

• Install workstations hardware and Software, including setting up employee's access to required systems (Active Directory, File Shares, O365, etc.) Image Management of PCs (FOG)
• Management and maintenance of Mobile Devices (Apple & Android-based)

DB & Analytics (10%)

• Microsoft SQL Server Administration (Backups, Monitoring, O/S Health)
• Management of Database Integration w/ backend Azure Application Insights services

Workstations (PCs / Mac) / Mobile Devices / Printers (5%)

• Install workstations hardware and Software, including setting up employee's access to required systems (Active Directory, File Shares, O365, etc.) Image Management of PCs (FOG)
• Management and maintenance of Mobile Devices (Apple & Android-based)

DevOps Engineering (15%)

• Integrate and build automation tools for software development lifecycle (deployment, monitoring, and operations)
• Management / Re-provisioning of Development/Test Environments and maintenance (patches, O/S health)
• Maintain and administrate our automated Software Development Life Cycle with CI tools, GitLab integration for continuous build, test, and deployment
• Manage and integrate interoperability of DevOps systems (GitLab, JIRA, TeamCity)
• Research, evaluate and improve DevOps toolchain to automate and streamline our operations and processes.
• Monitor system healthiness with various tools and respond to alert.

Administrative / Other (10%)

• Asset Management. Maintain current and accurate inventory of technology hardware, software and resources including IT documentation

Work Experience

• Experience in the following:
  • Knowledge of automation and continuous integration (2 years)
  • Setting up CI/CD pipelines (1 years)
  • Managing performance, availability, and scale for mid to large sized systems. (2 years)
  • Managing & maintaining networks, servers in a heterogenous environment (5 years)
  • Source Control Management (2 years)
  • Iterative/agile (e.g. SCRUM, XP) methodologies (1 years)

Technical Requirements / Skills / Experience

• Virtualization (Intermediate / 2 Years)
  • VMware vSphere 6.x and iSCSI-based Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Servers (Intermediate / 5 Years)
  • Client Proliant (or equivalent)
• DevOps Engineering with: GitLab &Git Clients, NPM Repositories, GitLab Continuous Integration, Kubernetes, ProGet, Docker, PowerShell, NodeJS
• Windows Active Directory (2012 ) in an Office 365 environment (Intermediate / 4 Years)
• Microsoft Databases & Methodologies (Intermediate / 2 Years)
  • SQL Server (2012 ) Administration
  • Power BI and/or PerformancePoint
• Microsoft Azure (Intermediate / 2 Years)
  • SQL Databases, App Insights, Stream Analytics and Machine Learning
• Networking / Infrastructure (Intermediate / 2 Years)
  • Cisco / Dell Switches, Next-Gen Firewalls (Palo Alto) and EndPoint Security Management (McAfee EPO)
• Application Servers
  • SharePoint
• Workstations (Intermediate / 5 Years)
  • Windows 10 PCs, Macintosh and Linux

Education

• Bachelor degree or above in Computer Engineering or related discipline preferred (but not required)

Soft Skills

• Strong sense of responsibility and ability to work independently
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated, detail minded and result oriented.
• Team player who values team success over individual recognition
• Wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected
• Excellent verbal & written skills

Benefits:

• All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
• Zero deductible health care coverage
• 30 days sick time
• 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays
• 4% 401k match
• Eligible for 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance

Location:

• This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL
• It is in-office 5 days per week
• Relocation expenses are paid

Applicants should expect to complete an Assessment Evaluation as part of the interview process.

About the company:

This three-studio software engineering company is quickly becoming known as a leading creative developer of online mobile casino games. With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is embracing leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their customers are shifting work from other studios to them as their games are achieving faster market penetration, higher user satisfaction, and superior quality. They recruit for attitude and aptitude. They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their small distributed studio approach to growth. You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development.