Lead Linux System Administrator

Nekki is a game development studio, the creator of Shadow Fight Arena, Shadow Fight 3, Shadow Fight 2, 11×11, and Vector. The total number of registered users for our games exceeds 1 billion worldwide. We develop and release games for PC, consoles, and mobile platforms. We are looking for a Lead Linux System Administrator to lead a distributed team of 3–4 system administrators and one L1 support engineer. This is a hands-on role combining people management, technical leadership, and direct involvement in complex infrastructure work.
Lead Linux System Administrator - Nekki - game developer and publisher Remote Jobs requirements Nekki is a game development studio, the creator of Shadow Fight Arena, Shadow Fight 3, Shadow Fight 2, 11×11, and Vector. The total number of registered users for our games exceeds 1 billion worldwide. We develop and release games for PC, consoles, and mobile platforms. We are looking for a Lead Linux System Administrator to lead a distributed team of 3–4 system administrators and one L1 support engineer. This is a hands-on role combining people management, technical leadership, and direct involvement in complex infrastructure work. Responsibilities: Lead and develop the team: set priorities, plan work, mentor team members, conduct one-to-one meetings and performance reviews, and participate in hiring and onboarding. Ensure that the team maintains reliable production and internal infrastructure, including monitoring, logging, backups, and disaster recovery. Define and maintain infrastructure security practices, including access management, system hardening, and patching. Oversee the timely handling of infrastructure incidents, escalations, and internal support requests. Plan and deliver infrastructure improvements, migrations, and capacity expansion. Operate and improve internal engineering services, and automate routine operations using Bash and Ansible. Coordinate infrastructure work with project teams and the DevOps team. What we are looking for: Experience managing a system administration or infrastructure team, including performance management and work prioritization. Strong technical leadership and senior-level hands-on Linux administration skills, preferably with RHEL, CentOS, or AlmaLinux. Strong knowledge of networking and production troubleshooting. Strong Bash and Ansible skills. Experience administering PostgreSQL in production. Experience operating and securing production infrastructure, including monitoring, backups, access management, patching, and incident response. Ability to take ownership, make technical decisions, and communicate clearly within a distributed team. Fluent communication in Russian is required Our technology landscape. We do not expect candidates to have experience with every technology listed below. Experience with several of these areas will be an advantage. Cloud and hosting: AWS, Tencent Cloud, and dedicated servers hosted at OVH and Hetzner. Virtualization, containers, and storage: Proxmox VE, Proxmox Backup Server, Docker, and ZFS. Databases: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and a small number of MySQL services. Monitoring and logging: Zabbix, Grafana, Percona Monitoring and Management, Graylog, and Elasticsearch. Identity and access: Keycloak, OpenZiti, and Google Workspace. Content delivery: Akamai and other CDN providers. Engineering services: TeamCity, GitLab, Perforce, Jira, and Confluence. Application environments: primarily Java-based game backends, plus some Python and PHP services. Join Apply to this position First name Last name E-mail Phone number Vacancy Portfolio Attach your CV (PDF, DOC, up to 10 MB) CV Tell about yourself * required fields I agree to share personal information due to Privacy Policy Send If you have not received a response within 7-10 days, your application has not been selected for further consideration. Our team would like to thank you for your time. By submitting a response to our vacancy, you agree that your personal data collected during interviews at Nekki will be processed by the company. One or more fields have an error. Wrong file format We’re hiring All 12 Animation 2 Art 3 Design 4 Game design 3 Programming 1 Technical Artist (PC/Console, UE5), Remote 2D VFX Artist, Remote Narrative Designer (PC/Console, UE5) (6 months contract), Remote Middle Technical Level Designer (UE), Remote Middle Narrative Designer / Writer, Remote Head of Animation, Remote VFX Artist (Mobile, Unity), Remote Technical Game Designer, Remote Middle UI Designer (LiveOps), Remote AI/Combat Game Designer (PC/Console, UE5), Remote Senior 3D Character Animator (Mobile, Unity), Remote Level Designer (PC/Console, UE5), Remote More Head of Animation, Remote Senior 3D Character Animator (Mobile, Unity), Remote More Technical Artist (PC/Console, UE5), Remote 2D VFX Artist, Remote VFX Artist (Mobile, Unity), Remote More Narrative Designer (PC/Console, UE5) (6 months contract), Remote Middle Technical Level Designer (UE), Remote Middle UI Designer (LiveOps), Remote Level Designer (PC/Console, UE5), Remote More Middle Narrative Designer / Writer, Remote Technical Game Designer, Remote AI/Combat Game Designer (PC/Console, UE5), Remote More Technical Artist (PC/Console, UE5), Remote More