GamePoint is looking for a Linux Engineer on a full-time basis
Who are we?
GamePoint, based in the Netherlands, is one of the world's leading social game developers. For over 20 years, we have created cross-platform games that have delighted every type of gamer. To mention a few, we've had continuous success with GamePoint Bingo, Royaldice, Cardparty, and Wordtornado. We're not done yet, and we're working on additional games and features for both young and old. We are able to function as we do, because of a broad international staff of game, marketing, and community creators from all around the world. We're seeking for additional team members to help us expand and keep our players engaged. Come and game with us!
Position Summary – Linux Engineer
As a Linux engineer you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the Linux-based infrastructure that supports our tools, servers and databases. This includes monitoring and troubleshooting servers to ensure optimal performance and availability. You will be responsible for upgrading and improving our systems and processes within the organization. This may include implementing new technologies and automation techniques to streamline operations, as well as troubleshooting and resolving any issues that may arise.
Note: EU residency and living in the Netherlands are mandatory
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain Linux-based infrastructure for game servers, databases, and other systems
- Automate and streamline systems administration tasks using scripting and automation tools
- Work with the development team to optimize game performance and scalability
- Monitor and troubleshoot game servers and other systems to ensure optimal performance and availability
- Collaborate with the IT team to ensure security and compliance of all systems
- Keeping up to date with new technologies and best practices in Linux systems administration
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of working experience with Linux (Ubuntu/RedHat) server management
- Familiar with performing upgrade and migration operations for MySQL Clusters, memcache, Redis, and to a lesser extent, network infrastructure
- Familiar with assisting web and gaming developers and supply infrastructure solutions
- Familiar with Kubernetes
- Experience with working with command line and scripting (shell, python)
- You are familiar with the following tools and techniques: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Nginx, MySQL (MariaDB/Percona), Redis, Memcache, RabbitMQ, AWS, NFS, Jenkins, BambooCI, load balancing.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with other cloud infrastructure
- Experience with other containerization technologies
- A passion for gaming and game development
What do we have to offer?
- Competitive salary based on your experience and knowledge
- Excellent pension plan
- Delicious lunch at the office
- All the hardware you will need to execute your job
- Casual international work environment
- A beautiful historical building in the The Hague
- Frequent team-building events and Friday drinks
Contact
Are you interested in this position? I am happy to tell you more about the job, the department, and the company in general! Feel free to contact Oleksandr Maistruk (Corporate Recruiter) at [email protected] or by phone: +3162934468
Please do not contact us for sales purposes
Skills Required
- 3+ years working experience with Linux (Ubuntu/RedHat) server management
- Experience performing upgrade and migration operations for MySQL clusters, memcache, and Redis
- Familiarity assisting web and gaming developers and supplying infrastructure solutions
- Familiar with Kubernetes
- Experience with command line and scripting (shell, python)
- Familiarity with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Nginx, MySQL (MariaDB/Percona), Redis, Memcache, RabbitMQ, AWS, NFS, Jenkins, BambooCI, and load balancing
- EU residency and living in the Netherlands
- Experience with other cloud infrastructure
- Experience with other containerization technologies
- A passion for gaming and game development
What We Do
GamePoint (gamepoint.biz) is one of the largest social game developer companies. We create cross platform games and have continued to satisfy every type of gamer for over 20 years. Every month we welcome large groups of unique players on Web, Facebook and Mobile from all over the world with our multiplayer Bingo, Card, Board, and Social Casino games. Some of our games are among the top 100 best earning games in the world. Due to the unique social features, users play an average of 120 minutes per day within our games. We are committed to entertain and support a live global audience, building long term relationships with all our players daily, and we aren’t finished there and continue to develop new games and products. Operating from The Hague, Kyiv, Krakow and Cluj-Napoca, we cultivate brilliant talented team members and we only hire the best from around the globe to complement our growing teams. Since our founding in 1998, we’ve been building a company where we take risks and dream big. And together, we bring fun and entertainment to our millions of players across the globe. Come play with us! See for more information our corporate Website: www.gamepoint.biz or play our great games on www.gamepoint.com.
