Network Engineer

Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made and 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 and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and it’s for them we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience. Riot Games is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and 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 and Esports arena. 

You will take advantage of automation tooling and processes in order to monitor network health, respond to events and eliminate the burden of repetitive tasks. A Network Engineer provides the highest level of operational support, triage, break/fix, and incident resolution - this includes responding to critical issues, notifying customers of network issues, assessing and communicating business impact. You will participate as a team member to deliver important projects, and 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 and onsite support through a 24 / 7 on-call rotation to ensure high levels of network uptime. This role is located in our Korea office and you will report to the Sr. Manager, IT - Korea. 

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design, configure, and maintain network infrastructure and application components
• Provide recommendations/solutions towards the positive evolution of Riot's networking infrastructure
• Respond to emergent events and final point of arbitration for problem resolution
• Be a resource on delivery critical projects
• Collaborate as an excellent partner and 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 and processes to monitor the health of the network, respond to events, and 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 and troubleshooting of related protocols. (e.g. IP, BGP, OSPF)
• Experience with switching that includes a high level experience with hands-on configuration and 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, and protocols
• Structured Cabling standards and best practises with optical fiber and 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 and Korean (Written and Verbal)

Desired Qualifications:

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

Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.