Systems Administrator: Hasbro, Inc.

Suits Optional...
...Brains Required!!

Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., the world's largest publisher of adventure games, including Magic: The Gathering® Trading Card Game and Dungeons & Dragons® Roleplaying Games have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Administrator to join our team.

Note –there is no relocation assistance for this position.

POSITION PURPOSE:

The System Administrator’s role is to ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of the in-house information systems that support core business functions focusing on internet-facing applications such as web sites, e-commerce, and online games. This is achieved by monitoring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all networked software and associated operating systems. The Systems Administrator will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues in order to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments.

JOB DUTIES

Essential Functions / Major Responsibilities:

· Engineers the support and maintenance of large-scale production and pre-production infrastructure, including the design and development of tools and scripts to assist with such maintenance.

· Assist in-house product teams with regularly scheduled product builds and deployments and hot fixes as needed.

· Integrates and/or consolidates servers and services between different product teams and technologies, including the design and development of the necessary integration tools.

· Designs, integrates, and maintains network services such as DNS, DHCP, SMB, SNMP, NFS, Kerberos, Microsoft Active Directory, Network Intrusion Detection, and proxies.

· Designs and develops high-performance and highly available groups of servers for resource-intensive network applications.

· Designs archive and backup systems. Works closely with technical staff to insure that backup and archiving designs and procedures are implemented properly.

· Plans and implements system security policy, to include access control, host and client access, file permissions, and user accounts.

· Develops best practices, operational procedures and design documentation including change controls.

· Plans and coordinates system utilization, and performs growth analysis and capacity planning.

· Reviews current systems and makes technical/process recommendations for improving efficiency.

· Plans and manages multiple projects.

· Provides on-call support advice and technical support to various users/clients regarding operational/applications issues.

· Installs and debugs new and/or upgraded software on server and client platforms.

· Troubleshoots systems, applications, and networks to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems.

· Stays up to date with relevant state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems. Evaluates new hardware and software technologies, and presents analysis and purchase recommendations to the administration team and to management.

· Function collaboratively as part of a fast-paced, customer oriented team and perform effectively as an independent producer under broad management direction.

· On-call responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

· 7+ years of systems administration experience in a large heterogeneous Windows/UNIX/Linux production environment is required.

· 3+ years experience supporting mission critical externally facing systems such as e-commerce or online gaming servers.

· 3+ years working with enterprise class virtualization technologies.

· 3+ years working with SAN technologies.

· Solid understanding of LINUX operating systems - Redhat/CentOS strongly preferred

· Solid understanding of Windows Server including Active Directory.

· Experience with service oriented architecture, ASP, ASP.Net, IIS, Apache, Tomcat.

· Experience supporting Microsoft SQL clusters in a production environment.

· Familiarity with hardware load balancers such as F5 BIG/ip.

· Significant experience with and solid understanding of LDAP, TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, SMB, SNMP, etc.

· Technical knowledge of Netapp NAS/SAN technology including features such as Snapshots, SnapMirror, FlexClone, Deduplication, etc. is highly desirable.

· Technical knowledge of VMware ESX, VirtualCenter, Vmotion, etc. is highly desirable.

· Superior communication skills in working with technical and non-technical people and the ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships among all levels of an organization.

· Excellent organizational and time/task management skills are required.

· Experience with business collaboration tools such as Outlook, Excel, Visio, Sharepoint essential.

· A Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is preferred.

Applications must be submitted online at www.wizards.com/jobs

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position