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Job DescriptionAs a System Administrator at Ubisoft Montréal, you will join the Squads and Operations team within the IT Games and Studios group. You will be part of an agile, cross-functional squad supporting Game Production teams by ensuring the reliability, performance, and operability of online infrastructures used in live game environments. In your role as a System Administrator, you will work closely with Online Programmers and Live Operations Managers to design, automate, and evolve scalable solutions that support long-term stability and an optimal player experience.
What you’ll do
- Ensure operational stability of infrastructure and services in production environments
- Collaborate with production teams to understand needs and recommend appropriate technical solutions
- Design, maintain, and improve automation scripts to reduce manual work and increase reliability
- Analyze codebases and continuous integration and deployment pipelines to diagnose and resolve complex incidents
- Implement and evolve monitoring systems and system health tracking solutions
- Promote operations automation and continuous improvement of system management practices
- Participate in a shared on-call support rotation for critical services
- Improve system performance, resilience, and availability over time
- Configure, deploy, and manage databases
- Reverse engineer complex systems to support troubleshooting and optimization
- Practical experience working with Windows and Linux environments, including service and application hosting
- Knowledge of automated integration and deployment workflows, including tools such as GitLab
- Strong skills working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficiency in programming and scripting, such as Python, Shell, PowerShell, or Ruby
- Experience using containerization and service orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools
- Exposure to cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
- Ability to solve complex technical problems and communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical partners
Ubisoft Montréal, Québec, CAN Office
5505 Boul. Saint-Laurent #2000, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2T 1S6
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