Systems Architect

Systems Architect
Glorious Games Group
Glorious Games Group is a multi-product gaming company located in central Stockholm. It has been around for more than 10 years under the name Stardoll and has now evolved into producing multiple additional titles.

Innovative, Professional & Quality of Life
We believe that the most important thing when going to work is having fun, gaining new experiences and learning new things. We offer a work environment with a friendly atmosphere and great colleagues. Over the years we have learned a lot, but our hunger for knowledge and experience never stops, which is why we can offer a great chance to learn new things and grow as individuals.

We believe that working together is crucial for success. Challenges are always something we take on together and overcome. Quality of life is an important aspect of any work environment, so we strive to take care of our co-workers by supplying beneficial services, lunch walks and activities outside of work.

Systems Architect
We now need to strengthen our team with Systems Architect for both improving the existing infrastructure platform and building the new infrastructure for new projects and products. The work will be performed in small, dynamic and multi-disciplinary teams, hence the work involves a degree of autonomy but also great teamwork skills and an ability to plan your own time. A big appetite for keeping up to date on new technologies and best practices is essential.

To be successful in this role you need to be eager, self-reliant and meticulous. You should also enjoy the fast-paced and ever-changing nature of our business. We believe that an outgoing and engaged person is best suited for this role.

Responsibilities
- Research and plan for new infrastructure supporting new products, including written specifications for systems-design
- Plan and build infrastructure for new products with a focus on high availability, scalability and performance together with Operations team
- Plan and build backend for new products with focus on security, scalability and performance together with development-teams
- Review existing infrastructure and plan for improvements
- Implement best practice for code development and deployment
- Triage situations by assessing problems, identify source and apply fixes
- Support co-workers with technical expertise
- Develop bug free, secure, high quality backend code in a timely manner
- Optimization and security auditing of existing code
- Work closely with other functions in the company (Operations, Development, QA)
- Designing and implementing APIs to power our various mobile products

Qualifications
- At least seven years of work experience in Operations/Development
- Excellent knowledge of Linux and open-source software
- Excellent knowledge in programming languages, including: PHP, C, C++, Python, Perl
- Excellent knowledge of relational databases, including: MySQL, MariaDB
- Knowledge and experience of high availability cluster solutions for relational databases
- Experience with Nginx, MySQL, Memcached
- Experience with AWS
- Knowledge of Network protocols
- Some experience with PHP (5.4+) is valued
- Excellent communication-skills with people with varying degrees of technical expertise
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Perforce, Subversion

Diversity Statement
At Glorious Games, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and safe environment. We support individual and professional growth and opportunity for all employees regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, nationality, religion, size, disability, or any other characteristic beyond merit and talent.