linux system administrator for game infrastructure

Nekki is a game development studio that creates and publishes games for PC, consoles, and mobile platforms. Its games have more than 1 billion registered users worldwide.

• Lead and develop a distributed team of 3–4 system administrators and one L1 support engineer by setting priorities, planning work, mentoring team members, conducting one-to-one meetings and performance reviews, and participating in hiring and onboarding;
• Ensure reliable production and internal infrastructure, including monitoring, logging, backups, and disaster recovery;
• Define and maintain infrastructure security practices, including access management, system hardening, and patching;
• Oversee the timely handling of infrastructure incidents, escalations, and internal support requests;
• Plan and deliver infrastructure improvements, migrations, and capacity expansion;
• Operate and improve internal engineering services;
• Automate routine operations using Bash and Ansible;
• Coordinate infrastructure work with project teams and the DevOps team.

• Experience managing a system administration or infrastructure team, including performance management and work prioritization;
• Strong technical leadership and senior-level hands-on Linux administration skills;
• Strong knowledge of networking and production troubleshooting;
• Strong Bash and Ansible skills;
• Experience administering PostgreSQL in production;
• Experience operating and securing production infrastructure, including monitoring, backups, access management, patching, and incident response;
• Ability to take ownership, make technical decisions, and communicate clearly within a distributed team;
• Nice to have: Experience with AWS, Tencent Cloud, OVH, Hetzner, Proxmox VE, Proxmox Backup Server, Docker, ZFS, ClickHouse, MySQL, Zabbix, Grafana, Percona Monitoring and Management, Graylog, Elasticsearch, Keycloak, OpenZiti, Google Workspace, Akamai, CDN providers, TeamCity, GitLab, Perforce, Jira, Confluence, Java-based game backends, Python, PHP.

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