System Administrator

About the Position

We are Grinding Gear Games, creators of the award-winning dark fantasy Action RPG Path of Exile. We are seeking experienced System Administrators to join our sysadmin and dev ops team. You will be responsible for supporting our online titles as well as our internal server infrastructure within our office. You will also help maintain and improve the tooling and automation required by these systems.

Location: On-site in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand

Relocation assistance: Available for the right candidate if needed

Employment Type: Full-time position - 40 hours a week

Responsibilities

• Performing system administration, dev-ops, and maintenance tasks related to Windows and Linux server and workstation machines, including both internal and external servers.
• Maintain and improve the tooling and automation required across the above systems.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support when needed.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience managing servers in a production environment.
• At least 2 years in a System Administrator, Dev-ops Engineer, or Reliability Engineer role.
• A strong background in implementing server-related automation (e.g. deployment and maintenance-related tasks).
• Cloud technology including managing VMs via APIs and infrastructure automation.
• Strong skills in Python or an equivalent language.
• System diagnostics, troubleshooting server faults, and performance analysis.
• Benchmarking, load testing, and performance profiling experience.
• Log analysis and monitoring tools.
• Compiling packages from source and creating custom debs/rpms.
• Continuous integration (e.g. Buildbot).
• Server capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Understanding of C++ applications and debugging tools.

Technologies Used

• Microsoft and Linux distributions (Windows, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc)
• Python
• Bash
• Zabbix
• NGINX
• PostgreSQL
• Configuration management (e.g. Ansible)

On-Call Rotation

• Two days in lieu will be credited at the end of your rostered on-call week.
• If a call out occurs outside your usual working hours, you'll be paid time and a half for the time spent working.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Relocation assistance (for the right candidate if needed)
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

Grinding Gear Games is the developer and publisher of Path of Exile, the award-winning online ARPG. Founded and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the company was established in 2006 and released Path of Exile in 2013, winning GameSpot's PC Game of the Year Award that year. Since then, we have continued to evolve Path of Exile with over 45 expansions, eventually winning the 2020 BAFTA award for Best Evolving Game.

Path of Exile 2 is in full production and has been released in Early Access as of Q4 2024 - we're looking for world-class artists, animators, and programmers to help us continue to develop it. Come be part of our story and join us at Grinding Gear Games!