System Administrator

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.

• Maintain a 99.9% SLA for a 24/7/365 production environment.
• Develop automation to detect and recover production issues in all layers from hardware, configuration, networking, and vendor outages, and continuous software upgrades.
• Apply your expert debugging skills to get to root cause of problems encountered during the installation and operation of our applications, to ensure negligible impact on players and internal operations
• Prioritize and multitask daily responsibilities, while being flexible enough to respond to emergent high-priority issues.
• Collaborate with highly skilled and driven colleagues in a dynamic, agile environment.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in ops-related systems implementation
• Strong experience in both Windows and Linux.
• Strong experience of Intel based hardware (Dell, HP, Supermicro, Lenovo)
• Knowledge of security and networking.
• Knowledge with scripting languages, preferably PowerShell.
• Knowledge of any object-oriented language.
• Knowledge 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.)