Linux System Administrator

Company Description
- ** Location**: Saint-Mandé, France
- ** Duration of work**: Full-time (no part-time)
- ** Remote or on-site**: Flexible working organization to be discussed

Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies, and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

**Job Description**:
The IT Live Games team is recruiting a Linux Administrator ; reporting into the IT Production Manager, you will be part of a team of 7 System Administrators distributed between France and Romania.

Your main missions will be the following:

- Perform daily operations, such as infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, etc.,
- Contribute to the design and maintenance of future and current infrastructure,
- Develop and deploy solutions in Public Cloud (AWS, GCP) / Openstack,
- Deploy and maintain databases,
- Participate in the on-call rotation,
- Advanced troubleshooting, diagnosis, and problem resolution (infrastructure / network / systems / logs / metrics),
- Write documentation and standard operating procedures,
- Cultivate a strong relationship with development teams and partners alike,
- Implement CI/CD pipelines according to DevOps best practices,

**Qualifications**:
To be successful in this role, you will need:
**Background**
- A first experience working as a system administration/devops
- Experience maintaining customer-facing production environments
- Experience working across multiple regions remotely with colleagues and development teams

**Required skills**
- Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems with experience in administering critical systems - performance and high availability,
- Experience with source control tools such as Git, and good knowledge of source control management concepts such as branching, merging, integration, and versioning,
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Ruby, and Python,
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and visualization tools: Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Kibana,
- Experience with database technologies: Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and related concepts,
- Speaking English is mandatory for this position, as the team is distributed globally.

**Here is an overview of the technologies you will be exposed to (experience on these technologies is appreciated)**:

- Infrastructure as Code/Configuration management: Terraform, Chef, Ansible
- Private and public Cloud: AWS, GCP, Openstack,
- Containerization: Kubernetes and Docker
- Understanding of networking concepts and protocols, and troubleshooting expertise in this context
- CI/CD: ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, Jenkins
- Security: Vault, AzureAD

Additional Information
**Ubisoft's perks**
Profit Sharing, yearly company saving plan. 25 paid time off + 12 additional paid days off. 50% of your Navigo pass is paid by the company, lunch vouchers (9€/day), healthcare for you and your family, and lots of Ubisoft additional perks.
Maternity leaves of 20 weeks, paternity/co-parental leaves of 7 weeks.
Our brand new office is located in Saint Mandé, (Metro line 1, Saint Mandé station). Gym available in the building. Ability to work remotely.

**Recruitment process**
[30 minutes] : phone call with a Recruiter,
[60 minutes] : visio interview with a the manager of the role and a Recruiter,
[60 minutes] : visio interview with the members of the team and/or the stakeholders.

**Additional Information**
Ubisoft offers the same job opportunities to all, without any distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability, or age. Ubisoft ensures the development of an inclusive work environment which mirrors the diversity of our gamers’ community.
The job reports to the International HQ