DevOps Engineer

ROBLOX is the best place to Imagine with Friends™. With the largest user-generated online gaming platform, and over 15 million games created by users, ROBLOX is the #1 gaming site for kids and teens (comScore). Every day, virtual explorers come to ROBLOX to create adventures, play games, role play, and learn with their friends in a family-friendly, immersive, 3D environment.

• Maintaining a 99.9% SLA for a 24/7/365 production environment
• Developing automation to automatically detect and recover production issues in all layers from hardware, configuration, networking, and vendor outages, and continuous software upgrades
• Quickly resolving complex problems encountered during the installation and operation of our applications, to ensure negligible impact on players and internal operations
• Prioritizing and multitasking daily responsibilities, while being flexible enough to respond to emergent high-priority issues
• Designing, deploying and configuring extremely complex computing environments characteristic of large-scale gaming systems
• Leading in the execution of disaster recovery procedures and system failover efforts
• Collaborating with highly skilled and driven colleagues in a dynamic, agile environment
• Managing systems and developing contingency plans
• Participating in on-call rotations

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of experience in ops-related systems implementation
• Expertise and comfortability in both Windows and Linux
• Extensive experience in scripting; preferably with PowerShell or Python
• Experience with C, C++, Java, C#, or another object-oriented language
• Experience with server performance and failure monitoring/diagnostics

Great to have:

• Working knowledge of a continuous integration platform such as Jenkins or TeamCity
• Experience with automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Orchestra, etc.)