Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, System
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will significantly develop the infrastructure for global esports events, support teams through automation and documentation, and innovatively shape CI/CD pipelines and container solutions.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Systems Engineer in the Esports Event Technology (EET) Team, you will support a team focused on building, supporting and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling and applications that power Riot's esports events around the world.
- You will work in a self-guiding, cross-functional team with highly skilled individuals to ensure that Riot's infrastructure is capable of supporting all Riot Esports initiatives.
- This role may require international travel to support global and regional events.
- Expected travel ranges from 10% to 40% depending on event schedules and business needs.
- Act as the SME for core infrastructure systems, platforms, and services.
- Design, support and evolve our global esports infrastructure.
- Collaborate within a diverse, cross-functional team across engineering and operations.
- Develop technical standards and enable operations teams through documentation, automation, and coaching.
- Participate in global event support as needed, including occasional non-standard working hours.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Expertise in Linux and Windows systems.
- Track record of reducing operational toil through automation.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash).
Experience
- 5+ years in Systems, Support, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Experience with Ansible and Terraform for automation and configuration management.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
- Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, AHV).
- Experience designing and operating containerized workloads (e.g., Docker).
- Experience with imaging and deployment tools (e.g., FOG, SCCM, Autopilot).
- Experience building or maintaining global infrastructure, systems at scale.
- Experience in defining and implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability standards.
- Experience using Git for version control.
- Experience with operating infrastructure in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Relevant certifications such as RHCE or RHCSA, or equivalent hands-on experience, are a plus.
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What we offer
- We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
- Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available.
- Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations.
- A balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.
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Riot Games
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to change the way video games are developed, published, and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of Riot's community and it’s for them that Riot continues to evolve the League experience, in-game and beyond.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Media, Publishing, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Systems Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
