Platform Engineer - Linux

Who we are

The Workshop is a tech company that develops incredible software for the online gaming industry. Living by the motto “Fearlessly Forward,” innovation is at the center of everything we do, whether it’s our games, new products, and technologies. We understand that great ideas come from great people, and great people thrive when they’re trusted to challenge, change, improve, and perfect our products and processes. Our strength lies in the diversity of our skills, and that comes from the diversity of our people. 

The Workshop is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, trust each other, and value collaboration. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, belief (or lack thereof,) and programming language preference. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer a pleasant, supportive place to work – whoever you are. It’s a place where you can try new ideas, take risks, and move Fearlessly Forward.

Your mission

Our IT Services Group is looking for a talented Platform Engineer to come and help us secure, manage, and automate our complex infrastructure. 

You will develop our future and operate our present, you will work with Linux systems from CentOS to Ubuntu while helping us on our Openstack journey.

What you'll do

• Learn our global environment, help us care for, nurture, and grow our infrastructure.
• Work with talented people to create simple yet powerful deployment processes that increase both velocity and our quality.
  
• Participate in the design of solutions for our enterprise. Help shape how we do security, recovery, availability, and performance.
• Find innovative ways to help us reduce maintenance, always looking for automation.
• Work closely with our partners to support our own cloud platform.
• Use Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and propose new tools and processes at any time. 
• Work with distributed teams in a Global company to improve key metrics and work towards.
• Work in Agile flows in an environment of continual improvement. 
  

What you'll bring

• Experience with systems administration in Linux/Unix (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, Solaris, etc.) and a desire to learn Openstack.
• Experience with, and expertise in many of the following protocols & technologies: IPv4 & IPv6, TCP (internals & flow control), DNS, and HTTP.
  
• Experience with automation and scripting in a Linux environment (bash, python, etc.) 
• Wide experience with configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible or similar.
  

What's in it for you

• Challenging and fulfilling work at an innovative, global company that uses cutting-edge tech
• Global work experience in an agile methodology
• International, friendly and inclusive multi-cultural environment (over 35 nationalities that speak altogether almost 30 languages!)
• Competitive salary and relocation packages for you and your family
• Private health insurance and life insurance from day 1
• Flexibility of working from home/office to stay both safe and collaborative
• Flexible working hours, well-being programs, learning and growth opportunities
• Team building events, learning labs, Hackathons/Designatons 
• Opportunity to shape the tech community inside and outside of The Workshop, mentoring and sharing knowledge with others