Network Engineer

Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment's global infrastructure team is looking to strengthen its forces with an enthusiastic and dedicated Network Engineer.

So why Blizzard? Because it's a haven for our kind! Our unique blend of opportunity, environment, and people all help make Blizzard the studio worthy of your career. You'll be joining the global production network engineering team that digs into challenges and crafts solutions with the same passion and creativity as our players do in our games. Our team, likewise, our company is built on a culture of passion for who we are, what we create, and who we support.

Your impact

Want to be responsible for the gaming experience of millions of players? How about building the infrastructure that supports players from around the world?

You will be part of building a great gaming experience, growing and improving our global data center network and its engineering principles.

You will advocate for healthy operational practices. You will drive incidents investigation, troubleshooting efforts and proactively act on identified setup weakness, towards improving resiliency and availability of our gaming services.

What you'll do

Be a key player in data center architecting and network engineering projects spanning across a multi-site global network.

Enjoy engineering freedom, exploring new technologies, while committing to fit-for-purpose designs and showing a proven sense of ownership.

The ideal candidate will be focusing on network technologies spanning across routing & switching, data center networking, cloud networking, load balancing solutions and automation solutions.

You will identify operational difficulties and support the automation efforts, in regards to network devices deployment, configuration and standard practices (ex: zero touch provisioning, base config generation, software upgrades, failover and traffic shifting procedures). Care about the health state of our network devices, using telemetry capabilities and capturing traffic flow data. Push forward improvements of our monitoring and observability solutions.

Your way of working

• Show a solid sense of responsibility, when it comes to commitments and engineering work
• Prioritize the infrastructure environment and advocate for its improvement
• Be motivated to push through friction
• Be open minded, listening to the team's voice, showing a collaborative demeanor
• Believe that good documentation helps successful project delivery
• Believe in smooth production operations, diligently planning for changes, aiming for execution excellence
• Believe in engineering quality, avoiding shortcuts and technical debt, pushing for standards and simplicity

Your technical expertise

• Deep understanding and experience with routing protocols (such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and network protocols (such as IPv4, IPv6, NAT, Multicast, Spanning Tree, flow export applications)
• Knowledge of routing and switching hardware platforms architecture, forwarding and data planes
• Experience with load balancing hardware and software solutions (such as A10, F5, HAproxy)
• Experience with data center technologies: spine and leaf architectures, VxLAN EVPN, vPC/MLAG
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems, NMS systems, DDoS mitigation services
• Comfortable with automation frameworks, ideally Ansible using playbooks, or Salt or Nornir
• Familiarity with data-serialization language (YAML, json), template engine (jinja2) and version control (git)
• Experience deploying, troubleshooting and maintaining network hardware and software, for one or more vendors: Juniper, Cisco, Arista, etc. / NX-OS, IOS-XR, IOS-XE, JUNOS, EOS, etc.

Great addons

• You possess a deep passion for online gaming and/or Blizzard games, and demonstrate a genuine interest in comprehending the overarching framework of gaming systems infrastructure.
• Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6
• Experience with open-source tools facilitating the management of network infrastructure services
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and/or virtualization technologies and/or Linux containers
• Deployment knowledge or experience handling security products (such as SRX, Palo Alto)
• Experienced understanding of writing or using advanced scripts in any programming language

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each person's circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore other possible options, including remote work arrangements.

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we've been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We're on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences...ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard "secret recipe," but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting .

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $77,500.00 - $143,376.00 Hourly. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.