Nintendo of America Inc.
About Nintendo of America: From the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System™ more than 30 years ago, Nintendo’s mission has been to create smiles through unique entertainment experiences. Here at Nintendo of America Inc., we deliver on this mission by partnering closely with Nintendo Co., Ltd., to bring Nintendo’s iconic and cherished franchises including Mario™, Donkey Kong™, The Legend of Zelda™, Metroid™, Animal Crossing™, Pikmin™ and Splatoon™ across the Americas through our video games, hardware systems, and collaborations with partners on a range of other entertainment initiatives like feature films and theme parks.
Based in Redmond, Wash., Nintendo of America serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Americas. We are an equal opportunity employer offering a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, and the diverse consumers and communities we call home. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at .
- Installs and supports internally developed systems and third-party licensed software.
- Configures servers and operating systems for performance, recoverability, and availability.
- Defines the functional and technical needs of an organization and recommends solutions.
- Assesses available technologies to meet needs, and then defines technical specifications and designs.
- Develops and modifies technology systems, addressing functional, performance, security, quality, operations and monitoring needs.
- Creates detailed test scenarios, performs testing and analyzes results.
- Systems engineers should be able to manage and query databases using SQL or similar technologies to handle data-driven aspects of systems integration. They should also have experience engineering and maintaining document databases such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB, as well as relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle and MSSQL
- Writes scripts and uses automation to perform routine tasks.
- Designs simple and cost-effective systems to meet operational and security requirements.
- Reviews systems operation and configuration to ensure it continues to meet design criteria.
- Applies creativity and latitude to design and deliver systems.
- Works with Orchestration technologies to automate tasks within area of expertise.
- Documents all technology changes through appropriate change control.
- Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise that may also include employees from Nintendo Company, Ltd. (NCL) and subsidiaries.
- Ensures work is completed in such a way to comply with established JSOX and other internal controls.
- Mentors and assists Associate System Engineers.
- Provides support and troubleshooting of prior developed technology solutions.
- Provides on-call support as needed.
- Minimum of three (3) years of related experience in various system development technologies, patterns and practices.
- Proven experience with work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Requires understanding of core infrastructure concepts such as networking and storage and how systems interact with them.
- Requires working knowledge and experience in own technical job family and broadens capabilities; has worked with and is proficient with current technologies.
- Requires expanded knowledge in own job family and broadens capabilities.
- Requires staying current on engineering approaches, technologies and techniques.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
