Operations Manager
at Smith & Tinker in Seattle, WA
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Dec 16, 2008
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Overview
We reinvent play for the connected generation with focus on fun human interaction and their cool “future” toys. Our “new” immersive world is based on an exciting mix of state-of-the-art and traditional technologies which we would like you to help build, test, deploy, and operate.
Smith and Tinker is looking for a highly motivated hands-on Operations Manager who oversees the engineering and operations of our data center and corporate environments. In this highly visible role your top goals are the high availability and performance of a well connected secure and scalable infrastructure for millions of public Internet players attaching browsers and toys to our services and online games.
Smith and Tinker is looking for a highly motivated hands-on Operations Manager who oversees the engineering and operations of our data center and corporate environments. In this highly visible role your top goals are the high availability and performance of a well connected secure and scalable infrastructure for millions of public Internet players attaching browsers and toys to our services and online games.
Responsibilities
Our technology scope includes solutions design, implementation, and operations incorporating network routers, switches, firewalls, high availability load balancers, servers, storage area networks, cloud computing, SQL clusters, Active Directory, DNS and other services for our online production and corporate environments.
Your role includes “live” deployments and proactive monitoring, notification and incident resolution.
The Operations Manager maintains vendor relationships and establishes annual budgets.
Experience
5+ years of relevant hands-on technical experience, and a record of individual technical achievement
3+ years of relevant management experience of IT engineers and/or operations specialists hands-on technical professionals in related areas
Very high technical competence with a rare mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of technically-astute teams across the company
Demonstrated pro-active communications with line and executive management about forward thinking best of breed competitive ROI technology solutions
Demonstrated ability to partner with business stake holders to build and operate technology solutions per business requirements
Strong understanding of and practical experience with hardware, Windows and Linux network load balancing concepts and their implementation
Strong understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems and databases. Windows server 2008, CentOS 5.1, and MySQL 5.1 are a plus
A solid understanding of IP networking, network devices, and common topologies
Strong telecom, data center, payment processor, equipment and services vendor management
Strong ability to build cost effective and Open Source solutions including monitoring platforms like Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Graph (MRTG)
Strong track record of successful data center hardware and software deployments for gaming properties and cross property infrastructure
Ability to design, implement and operate a corporate backend with Active Directory
Practical understanding of Storage Area Networks and ability to manage setup, configurations, and storage controller based data mirroring
Strong hands-on understanding of Cisco edge routers and core switch configurations including FWSM firewall modules and ability to operate these on a day-to-day basis
Ability to direct varying team sizes of full time employees, contractors and vendors with diverse engineering and operations backgroun
Education
BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science
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