Systems Engineer, Linux (Contractor)

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

As a team member in China, you'll join a team of internationally and culturally diverse professionals that share our prioritization of player experience, rejection of convention and maniacal passion for gaming.

To reinforce Riot’s collaborative culture in our China offices, we’ve decided to do away with the constraints of traditional hierarchical title structures that are more common in the region. Titles don’t really matter at any of Riot’s offices, but we chose to take this extra step in our China offices to foster a space where teamwork thrives. We believe that removing this constraint will promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and a focus on results. We promise you won’t need a title at Riot to make an impact.

As Systems Engineers at Riot, we work on game operations - deploying, managing, and proactively improving high performing and highly available services for players. We monitor and administer as necessary all game environments, most importantly the production game environment. We work closely with the Live Operations and NOC teams to understand the state of our games and take swift action to correct any and all problems, faults, and outages.

As a Systems Engineer (Game Operation) - Wild Rift, TechOps (Contractor) you will use your deep technical knowledge and passion to achieve that excellence. Our players are depending on you to provide an uninterrupted game experience. Additionally, you will work with other technical and nontechnical teams, both inside and outside of Riot, to make Wild Rift and its supporting teams operate at peak performance. You will report into the Head of Technical Operations for Wild Rift.

Responsibilities

Ensure that Wild Rift is up and operating as expected through system monitoring and forming close relationships with other teams
Quickly correct any system faults or failures that are affecting players
Perform maintenance on systems and infrastructure as necessary to keep the game operating effectively
Work independently on mission-critical extended-scoped projects
Ensure that system, service, and network capacity is sufficient to support current and expected demand
Write and otherwise document procedures for yourself and others to systematically perform that maintenance
Create tools to optimize operational tasks

Required Qualifications:

2 years of Technical Operations experience supporting live 24/7 services including building, deploying, securing, monitoring, and fixing systems at scale
Experience with Linux systems at scale on cloud platforms
Experience with building and troubleshooting networks
Operational understanding of database systems including querying and migrating databases
Experience with cloud infrastructure and application security including identifying security problems and addressing potential threats
Ability to write software especially tools to aid in supporting systems

Desired Qualifications:

Experience supporting game infrastructure
Experience creating, deploying, and managing containerized services
English & Mandarin Language Skills is a major plus

Employment Type: employment contract with FESCO Adecco, a professional personnel company in China.