Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck & Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made & supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to worldwide acclaim. The game has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world & a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community & its for them we continue to evolve & improve the League of Legends experience. Riot Games is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA & has 23 offices worldwide.   

As a Network Engineer at the Riot Games Korea office, you'll be part of a high-functioning team responsible for tackling all aspects of Riot Games Korea's network infrastructure including offices & Esports arena. 

You will take advantage of automation tooling & processes in order to monitor network health, respond to events & eliminate the burden of repetitive tasks. A Network Engineer provides the highest level of operational support, triage, break/fix, & incident resolution - this includes responding to critical issues, notifying customers of network issues, assessing & communicating business impact. You will participate as a team member to deliver important projects, & design/build infrastructure for the major Esports events on premise or off-site within a short time frame. Finally, you will maintain Riot's network infrastructure by providing both remote & onsite support through a 24 / 7 on-call rotation to ensure high levels of network uptime. This role is located in our Korea office & you will report to the Sr. Manager, IT - Korea. 

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design, configure, & maintain network infrastructure & application components
• Provide recommendations/solutions towards the positive evolution of Riot's networking infrastructure
• Respond to emergent events & final point of arbitration for problem resolution
• Be a resource on delivery critical projects
• Collaborate as an excellent partner & work closely with third party vendors for technical/strategic solutions
• Contribute to internal company Request for Comments (RFCs), including creation of new RFCs
• Utilize the development of automation tools & processes to monitor the health of the network, respond to events, & remove the burden of repetitive tasks
• Participate in On-Call rotation

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant working experience.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent degree.
• Experience with routing that includes a high level experience with hands-on configuration & troubleshooting of related protocols. (e.g. IP, BGP, OSPF)
• Experience with switching that includes a high level experience with hands-on configuration & troubleshooting of related protocols. (e.g. LACP, MLAG, Ethernet, STP, EVPN/VXLAN)
• Network security (e.g. Firewalls, load balancer, traffic visibility, AAA)
• Remote access VPN technologies
• Network utilities (e.g. ICMP, Syslog, Traceoptions, Netflow, SNMP, Wireshark, etc)
• Wireless management, deployment, & protocols
• Structured Cabling standards & best practises with optical fiber & copper
• Broadcast Standards/Protocols such as SMPTE 2110, SRT, RTMP, NDI
• Experience in Broadcast or Streaming area as a network/system engineer
• Fluent in English & Korean (Written & Verbal)

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Palo Alto, Aruba, Juniper & Arista technologies
• Working knowledge of remote VPN products, Palo Alto Global Protect.
• 1+ years of experience with LibreNMS, Datadog, & Prometheus
• Scripting languages such as Python
• Automation frameworks such as Ansible
• 1+ years of experience working with DevOps & Agile/Scrum teams
• AWS networking

Dont forget to include a resume & cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but well notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.