About Offworld:

Offworld Industries Ltd. (Offworld) is the independent studio behind the successful military first-person shooter game, “Squad”. Offworld was formed in 2014 by more than 15 developers who had worked together on the well known Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2. The founding purpose of the team was to bring a standalone successor of this acclaimed mod to market and build a game development studio and a livelihood from that foundation.

Fast forward to 2024, Offworld has over 140 employees and is rapidly growing. We have been expanding the studio into serving as a publisher supporting mods and have just released our new title into early access, "Starship Troopers: Extermination", a 16-player PvE first-person shooter based on the 1997 cult-classic film.

We are built on passion, unified spirit and continuing efforts to break the mold. We strive to become a leader in creating large-scale multiplayer games as well as supplying others with the ability to do the same. We are looking for a talented Senior Systems Administrator for our current and upcoming Unreal Engine based multiplayer games. If you are passionate about making great games and a team player, we are looking for you!

Job Duties:

• Provide tier 2 and 3 support
• Able to work evenings and weekends, if required.
• Design, install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot all IT infrastructure including server hardware, storage, networking devices, virtualized environments and SaaS/SSO
• Manage Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Group Policy, File Server, Application Servers, DHCP and DNS servers
• Capture, monitor, and analyze the performance of computer systems and networks proactively to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Manage backup and disaster recovery systems
• Update and assist on auditing hardware and software asset management
• Perform shell scripting or other scripting tasks to automate processes
• Perform security analysis and monitoring of all IT systems to proactively address vulnerabilities
• Perform hardware and software maintenance of systems as required, in response to vulnerability alerts or planned updates.
• Offer problem-solving services to all company staff and stakeholders
• Supervise, mentor, and share industry experience/knowledge with IT team
• Support studio departments and staff with technical challenges they may face
• Participate in IT team sprint planning

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or an IT diploma with relevant years of experience
• Ideally a minimum 15 years of IT experience with 2+ years in a Senior role
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Windows Server (2019-2022) and Linux distributions
• Excellent proficiency with Active Directory, Hyper-V, Veeam, DHCP, DNS, Atlassian, Lansweeper, LibreNMS, NetBox, pfSense, network devices (UniFi/Ubiquiti/Arista, etc.) and enterprise storage appliances (TrueNAS/Dell PowerVault, etc.)
• Extensive knowledge of IT security technologies, firewall and endpoint protection solutions
• Established leadership skills with the ability to supervise a team and ensure efficient IT operations
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

Beneficial Experience:

• Work experience in interactive media (video game development, VFX, or animation industries).
• Microsoft Azure/365 administration
• Proxmox
• Perforce
• CI/CD (e.g, Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Containerization (e.g., Docker)
• Monitoring (e.g., Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Prometheus, Loki)
• Automation (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt)
  
• Visualization (e.g., Grafana)
• ITIL Certification
  

This is a full-time permanent position.

The typical salary range for this position is $90,000-100,000 CAD per year and is subject to change. The final agreed upon salary is based on work location and may vary depending on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role offers:

• Extended health and dental benefits
• Wellness and health spending accounts
• Retirement savings plan
• 3 weeks of paid vacation and 2 weeks of paid studio shutdown over the December holiday period
• Wonderful colleagues!

If you meet the above qualifications, and Offeorld sounds like the kind of company you want to be a part of, please apply now with a cover letter and a copy of your resume.

Offworld Industries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, language, citizenship, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, physical and/or mental handicap, financial ability or any other characteristic protected by law.