Manager, Dev Ops Engineering

Nintendo of America Inc.

About Nintendo of America: From the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System™ more than 30 years ago, Nintendo’s mission has been to create smiles through unique entertainment experiences. Here at Nintendo of America Inc., we deliver on this mission by partnering closely with Nintendo Co., Ltd., to bring Nintendo’s iconic and cherished franchises including Mario™, Donkey Kong™, The Legend of Zelda™, Metroid™, Animal Crossing™, Pikmin™ and Splatoon™ across the Americas through our video games, hardware systems, and collaborations with partners on a range of other entertainment initiatives like feature films and theme parks. Based in Redmond, Wash., Nintendo of America serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Americas.

We are an equal opportunity employer offering a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, and the diverse consumers and communities we call home. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at https://www.nintendo.com/.

Team Summary: Within NOA’s Digital Marketing department, this role owns and manages Nintendo’s online web infrastructure and associated applications by designing, architecting, deploying, and maintaining these systems for Nintendo.com.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

·        Manages the configuration of servers, operating systems or AWS environments for performance, recoverability, monitoring and availability.

·        Budgets infrastructure costs and optimizes systems to fit within that available budget.

·        Owns DevOps tools and the associated budgets.

·        Manages team of DevOps Engineers that help build and support key infrastructure.

·        Analyzes available technologies to meet needs, and then define technical specs and designs.

·        Works with stakeholders and manages the creation of test scenarios, testing, and analysis of results.

·        Partners with the engineering team to identify areas that could be better automated through scripts or tooling.

·        Designs simple and cost-effective systems to meet operational and security requirements.

·        Plans and improves the monitoring, logging and alerting of applications and sets thresholds to ensure systems are operating well.

·        Provides support and troubleshooting of prior developed technology solutions and recommends design changes to optimize solutions.

·        Works with global Nintendo to coordinate on infrastructure needs and supporting systems.

·        Helps enable other technical groups at Nintendo to build systems that embody best practices.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS:

·        6-8 years of overall, related experience in coding and system design

·        2+ years of experience managing a technical team focused on delivering infrastructure for highly available systems.

·        Proven track record of architecting and delivering highly scalable infrastructure for eCommerce and/or other related platforms.