We are looking for best-of-the-class engineer to operate Zynga's large scale gaming system. The candidate will build and maintain a strong relationship with the game studios to deploy and support the most sophisticated social games on Zynga's cloud infrastructure. Main responsibilities include game trouble shooting, performance optimization, system monitoring, and operations tool development. You should be comfortable with working in a very fast paced environment where agility, flexibility, and technical excellence are highly valued.
Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience of supporting large mission-critical, highly scalable distributed systems Infrastructure, large network operations experience such as found in Internet and telecom industries
• Extensive network, storage, and system management experience
• Extensive UNIX/Linux system administration experience, solid understanding of TCP/IP networking
• Experience with LAMP stack, database (MySQL) administration and scaling
• Strong scripting skills in Shell, Perl, Python, or PHP
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Must be enthusiastic, action oriented, capable of independently solving complex technical problems
Preferred Qualifications
• Hands-on datacenter experience
• Experience with elastic cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with social gaming and social networks
