Linux Systems Administrator / Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Join Digital Extremes as a collaborative, driven Linux Systems Administrator to join our core IT infrastructure team onsite at our London, Ontario studio. You will work side-by-side with our existing Systems Analysts and Administrators to co-own, maintain, and scale our enterprise Linux environment, playing a vital role in ensuring high availability, peak performance, and reliable out-of-hours coverage for our high-demand operations.

🏢 About Digital Extremes

Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world's top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games' multi-million unit selling Unreal® franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector®, BioShock® for the PlayStation®3, the BioShock 2 multiplayer campaign, and The Darkness® II. The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe®, boasting a global community of 75 million registered players on PC, PS4™, PS5™, Xbox One™, Xbox Series X/S™, Nintendo Switch™, and iOS™. The studio's most recently announced project is the much anticipated Soulframe®, an open-world action-fantasy MMORPG title that is currently under development.

🎯 The Role

Digital Extremes is looking for a collaborative, driven Linux Systems Administrator to join our core IT infrastructure team onsite at our London, Ontario studio. In this role, you will work side-by-side with our existing Systems Analysts and Administrators to co-own, maintain, and scale our enterprise Linux environment, you will play a vital role in ensuring high availability, peak performance, and reliable out-of-hours coverage for our high-demand operations.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Linux Server Administration: Manage corporate and game Linux servers, taking an active role in deploying, optimizing, troubleshooting and maintaining on premise and cloud infrastructure. virtualization & Storage: Collaborate on the administration, maintenance, and expansion of Proxmox VE hypervisors and Ceph distributed storage clusters.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery: Share responsibility for routine backup validation, target storage management, and restore testing across site-wide Veeam Backup & Replication setups.
• Observability & Monitoring: Maintain and expand monitoring stacks to track system metrics, proactively identify performance bottlenecks, and respond to alerts together with the team. Upgrades & System Modernization: Partner with fellow teammates to plan, schedule, and execute OS maintenance and hardware lifecycle upgrades with minimal studio and game downtime.
• Cross-Role Collaboration & SOPs: Serve as an escalation partner for complex technical issues, bridging operational tasks between systems analysis and infrastructure engineering while keeping team documentation up to date.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of Linux system administration experience in a high-demand production or studio environment.
• Core Stack Knowledge: Proven experience managing enterprise Linux environments, Docker, Proxmox VE, Ceph distributed storage, and Veeam backup infrastructure.
• Tooling & Protocols: Familiarity with Perforce server administration on Linux, system monitoring platforms (PRTG, CheckMK), shell/Python scripting, and core networking protocols.
• Collaborative Mindset: Strong team orientation—comfortable co-owning infrastructure projects, sharing maintenance duties, and working closely alongside existing Systems Analysts and Administrators.
• Out of hours on-call duties as required

🎁 Benefits

Salary Range: $75,000 - $100,000

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada at the time of application. Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate's experience, skills, budget and location. Digital Extremes is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value a candidate brings.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada at the time of application.