LINUX APPLICATION ENGINEER @ SPIL GAMES (Netherlands) bij/via Enrico Heidelberg

Omschrijving

SPIL GAMES is the global leader in the online games industry with a family of 45 games websites, proudly reaching more than 115 million people each month! Game players in our core audiences of families, girls, and teens meet on our online properties to connect with and challenge new and existing friends to discover new games and experiences.

As website publishers, we at SPIL GAMES recognize that fresh, fun, and intriguing content is important to our audiences, and our 3 global game studios develop and launch single and multiplayer games to give our players what they want. We also partner with other game developers to provide even more games and, ultimately, the best possible gaming experience to our visitors!

In the exciting and quickly evolving online games world, we’ve been keeping busy, launching our first Facebook game application (Zapapa Games) and several titles for the iPhone and iPod touch as well as the iPad. We’ve even begun a partnership with Hyves, the top Dutch social networking site, to bring our game portfolio to their 8 million platform users. On Hyves, we also launched our first game featuring virtual currency: Walhalla Bingo. In this game, players can buy Walhalla Credits with their credit card, PayPal account, iDEAL, or mobile phone.

SPIL GAMES is headquartered in Hilversum, the Netherlands with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Nurnberg and Hamburg, Germany; and London, UK.

We are looking for a:

LINUX APPLICATION ENGINEER

As part of the System Engineering department, you will:

• Work closely with the System Engineers to ensure application performance;
• Work closely with the (Polish) Development department, maintaining a strong working relationship and ensuring that delivered applications meet our guidelines;
• Be the main point of contact for Project Management, guiding the roll-out process and ensuring swift and prompt releases;
• Be responsible for the roll out of middleware applications onto our clusters;
• Streamline the entire roll-out process: from development, to staging, to going live;
• Maintain the hosting guidelines, making sure they reflect recent market developments and meet developer needs;
• Work constantly on improving the roll-out process, focusing on quality and reliability.

Your profile:

• HBO/Bachelor’s level education
• Minimum 3 years of related experience; fluent in the technology domains of both IT infrastructure and applications
• Exceptional knowledge of Red Hat Linux OS; hands-on system administration experience is mandatory
• Good knowledge of middleware (PHP, Python, Perl), web servers (Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx), and caching tools (Memcached, APC, XCache)
• Previous experience in supporting, including optimizing and troubleshooting, PHP applications
• Strong background in application optimization and management solutions; hands-on experience in designing and implementing them
• Solid background in hardware (Dell, HP) support and troubleshooting
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to structure sophisticated problems and trace them back to the root
• Detail-orientated, focused, and task driven
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; a team player
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English
• Self-motivated and responsible; the ability to prioritize under challenging workloads and operation under time constraint is crucial

We offer:

• A competitive salary
• A chance to be part of a fast-growing company
• Good secondary benefits
• A motivating bonus system
• A fun and dynamic work environment

For more information please contact:

Apply by contacting us with the contact form below.

No third-party solicitations, please.

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