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Senior Network/ Systems Administrator (Calgary)

IT Support Specialist (Calgary)

Game Designer (Calgary)

Senior Network / Systems Administrator (Malta)

Development Manager (Calgary)

Senior Java Games Developer (Calgary)

Senior Java Systems Developer (Calgary)

Who We Are

Chartwell was founded in 1998 and was one of the pioneers in the online gaming industry.   We specialize in the development of leading-edge games, gaming systems, and platform for the regulated iGaming industry.  In July 2011, Chartwell became a fully-owned subsidiary of Amaya Gaming Group Inc. and is publicly traded on the TSX:V under the trading symbol AYA. 

Amaya is dedicated to providing global gaming solutions to governments in the areas of integrity software, taxation, regulation, lottery and online gaming.  As we merge the two companies together, Chartwell will continue to develop exceptional online gaming software and systems to enhance Amaya’s interactive gaming portfolio and expand the scalability of their government solutions offering.  

Combined, we have approximately 150 people working throughout the world in:

• Montreal (Canada-based Amaya head office)
• Calgary (Canada-based Chartwell head office)
• Malta (European headquarters for sales and client management)
• Singapore
• London
• Kenya

Our team of highly trained professionals is committed to delivering the highest quality software and maintaining its market edge through continuous development and unparalleled customer support.  Below is a list of departments that keep our company running smoothly:

• Executive Management
• Software Development & Deployment
• Professional Services
• Marketing & Communications
• IT Management
• Sales & Business Development
• Client Account Management
• Finance & Accounting

Why You'd Love to Work Here

• Technically elite teams who work together around the world
• We put fun into work
• People and their skills, ideas and creativity are valued
• High energy and creative atmosphere
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Career growth and personal development opportunities
• Accountability for actions, commitment and decisions
• Commitment to our staff, our clients and our quality work
• Flexible work hours
• Cultural diversity
• Casual dress with a professional attitude working environment
• Competitive salary and benefits package

Bring your skills to Chartwell. Share them with others and learn new ones.  Work for an exciting, progressive and growing company.  Be inventive.  Be challenged.  Be Valued.  Work for us and make your mark.

Be inventive. Be challenged. Be valued. Work for Chartwell and make your mark.

Learn more about what we do.

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Current Job Listings

Senior Network/ Systems Administrator

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Location: Calgary

Position Summary:
The candidate will be part of a network system administration team to support our Calgary and global office infrastructures. The responsibilities of this role will consist of maintaining office firewalls, Wireless access points, Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, Xen/Hyper V and VmWare. Virtual Server experience is desirable.

The position requires a highly motivated individual to work with in a highly skilled and dynamic team.  The candidate must be proactive, dynamic and team orientated.  Must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

The candidate must have a minimum of 7+ years experience in working within office environments managing local and remote branch offices.

Primary Roles/ Responsibilities:

• Firewall administration
• Monitor performance of ISP's to ensure that SLA's are being achieved.
• Microsoft Exchange Administration
• Active Directory , LDAP and Radius setup and administration
• DNS administration
• Manage and monitor traffic on internal and external networks.
• Ensure backups take place in accordance with Business Continuity plan.
• Maintain mail, DNS, Web, printing, file sharing, and remote access services.
• OS installation Linux and Windows
• OS patching Linux and Windows
• Hardware firmware updates
• Apache and IIS web servers
• Desktop deployments and support
• Monitoring/configuring services such as Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, HP SIM using syslog and SNMP
• New Office  infrastructure and hardware reviews, including replacement hardware and software upgrades
• Development of scripts to assist in daily tasks, analytical procedures and deployments
• Interaction with technical staff and ISP staff to assist in problem solving

Other responsibilities

• New deployment of servers and network configuration
• Security Audits including network internal and external penetration testing

Education:
One or more of the following:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Science in Business/Information Systems
• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
• BS in Information Technology/Information Systems Security

Certifications from Cisco, Red Hat, Microsoft, Oracle etc are welcome but not required.

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IT Support Specialist

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Location: Calgary

Position Summary:
The support specialist is responsible for desktop and user support to all of Amaya staff, including installation and configuration of new systems, troubleshooting and problem solving of existing systems, and support and training of common applications and operating systems.

Primary Roles/ Responsibilities:

• Responding in a timely manner to end-user support requests
• Deploying new desktop systems and rebuilding a deploying older systems
• Maintaining server back-ups
• Assisting systems admin with server maintenance, inventory control, documentation, troubleshooting and network maintenance and deployments
• Door management systems
• User account creation and administration.

Required Skills/ Competencies:

• Excellent knowledge of Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro
• Some knowledge of Linux and Mac OS desirable
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Office applications and Windows Operating systems including Windows XP and 7
• Working knowledge of Windows Server 2003 and 2008
• Experience with Exchange 2003/2007 and Active Directory
• Strong interpersonal skills and prior customer service experience
• Two to three years experience.

Education:

Technical certification desirable

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Game Designer

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Location: Calgary

Position Summary:
We are currently seeking a dynamic individual for a high-paced position in designing games for a leading developer of online casino. This person will be able to use their creative and mathematical skills to develop games that will be played by millions of people around the world. You will be working with highly motivated teams that are bent on releasing the most cutting edge and fun games in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Design fun, innovative math models for optimal player appeal
• Accountable for the full scope of game design (concept to market activities) that involves basic creative thinking, industry and competitive knowledge and technical skills
• Create innovative game math models for slot/video machines and other casino gaming applications that provide entertainment for players, as well as provide revenue for the customer
• Calculate payback percentages, hit frequencies, standard deviation tables, and hit distribution characteristics for all games, features, progressives, and bonuses
• Utilize programming tools to verify math models and create demos
• Write simulation program code to analyze game play in order to maximize player enjoyment, and analyze results of the simulations to verify games are paying properly
• Prepare Excel spreadsheets for lab submission, and check all calculations and formats file to specifications
• Update and improve existing code templates and develop new or improve spreadsheet payout templates
• Work closely with regulatory agencies to resolve any regulatory concerns

Required Competencies and Experience:

• Knowledge of advanced probability models and methods of solution; the ability to find dependencies in math structures; and, strong logic and problem solving skills are essential
• Prefer candidates with basic scripting/programming skills with languages commonly used for prototyping (e.g. Python, VBA), with an emphasis in probabilistic algorithms and analysis of volatility
• Proficient in the use of Excel spreadsheets, especially linking and formulas, and the application of calculating probabilities in spreadsheets
• Understand player preferences / likes / dislikes
• Strong creativity and imagination skills
• Must be able to read, edit, and adapt existing code
• Strong understanding of the software development process
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and able to communicate results of analyses to others
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics or a related area with 3-5 years of related experience with an emphasis in probability and statistics

Desired Competencies and Experience:

• 3-5 years experience developing math models for slots and casino games
• Experience using SlotDesigner would be an asset
• Candidates who have developed math models for at least 2 slot games that are currently in play in the Class III market or online will be given preference.

Apply for this position now at employment@chartwellgames.com.

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Senior Network / Systems Administrator

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Location: Malta

Position Summary:
The candidate will be part of a network system administration team to support our global infrastructures and will consist of maintaining Linux and Windows servers, firewalls, load balancers and ensuring network availability, this includes all aspects of security, Xen Virtual Server deployments, bash scripting, OS Patching and third party application etc.

The position requires a highly motivated individual to work with in a highly skilled and dynamic team. The candidate must be proactive, dynamic and team orientated, and must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

The candidate must have a minimum of 5+ years experience in working within the dot com and/or ecommerce sectors.

Primary Roles / Responsibilities:
Supporting clients (internal and external) and team members with system administration issues and mentoring team members in technologies such as Linux and networking.

Assist senior system admin in co-location administration, including the following:

• Firewall administration
• Load Balancer administration
• Active Directory , LDAP and Radius setup and administration
• NS administration
• OS installation Linux and Windows
• OS patching Linux and Windows
• Hardware firmware updates
• Apache and Resin installations to support CGS
• Setting up Databases servers and maintenance jobs for new deployments
• Monitoring/configuring services such as Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, HP SIM using syslog and SNMP
• New Client infrastructure and hardware reviews, including replacement hardware and software upgrades
• Development of scripts to assist in daily tasks, analytical procedures and deployments
• Interaction with clients technical staff and co-location ISP support staff to assist in remote problem solving

Other responsibilities:

• New deployment of servers and network configuration of CGS to staging and production environments as per project plans (customer requirements)
• Security Audits including network internal and external penetration testing

Required Skills / Competencies:

Networking:

• Firewalls : Cisco PIX/ASA, Juniper NetScreens
• Load balancer : Brocade ServerIron series, Cisco content switches, BigIP F5  
• Protocols: TCP/IP,UDP,SSH,SCP, HTTP, DNS, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, RDP, POP3, SSL, DHCP, NTP, STP, ARP, SNMP, BOOTP, TFTP
• Cisco IOS
• Switches – Cisco Catalyst series, HP, 3com
• In depth understanding of VLANs and VLAN Tagging

Operating environments:

• UNIX (Solaris)
• LINUX Advanced (Red Hat/CentOS all editions)
• Virtualization, Xen Hypervisor / Vm Ware / Hyper V
• Windows 2003/2008 all editions

Database:

• Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 administration
• SQL and T-SQL desired
• Maintenance and backup procedures

DNS:

• Bind
• Microsoft DNS

Mail:

• Sendmail
• Exchange 2003 – 2010
• Postfix
• Dovecot

Hardware:

• At least 3+ years experience in one of the following hardware manufacturers, IBM, HP, SUN, DELL, NETAPP
• External disk array (SAN) experience highly desirable, a solid understanding of disk technologies, including a full understanding of RAID technologies and the pros and cons for random and sequential Disk I/O.

Web Technologies:

• Web Server Apache, NGINX and IIS
• Application server; Resin and Tomcat
• HTTP(S) protocol
• HTML, Java, JSP, Servlets, PHP, XML, XSLT, JavaScript,
• Web Services

Security:

• Deploying SSL certificates
• SSL, TLS, VPN, IPSec, PPTP
• Apache and Resin log analysis
• Risk analysis
• Penetration testing
• User security policy
• DOS and DDOS

Scripting:

• Advanced Bash Scripting
• Perl

Applications:

• Subversion
• MS Outlook and MS Office

Education:

One or more of the following:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Science in Business/ Information Systems  
• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
• BS in Information Technology/ Information Systems Security

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Development Manager

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Location: Calgary

Position Summary:
Our Systems Development Team is looking for a charismatic Development Manager to lead them through the delivery of various projects. This opportunity offers interesting challenges in project delivery that are unique to the online gaming space and requires innovative solutions and creativity. Our team focuses on continuous improvement of the existing software through refactoring, replacement and advanced testing practices. This position also involves elements of practice leadership and application of disciplined Agile methodology. If you would like the opportunity to work with a great team and lead projects through to successful delivery, then take advantage of this rare opportunity. Come join us!

The position requires a highly motivated individual to work with in a highly skilled and dynamic team. The candidate must be proactive, dynamic and team orientated, and must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Primary Roles / Responsibilities:

• Manage several projects concurrently
• Lead department workload planning
• Manage the assignment and distribution of team members
• Ensure on time, on scope, on budget delivery of various game projects with a high degree of communication and with an interactive approach
• Work together with Product Management, Development, Quality Assurance, Build, Development, Architects and Senior Management in all phases and aspects of projects through deployment of each product
• Interact externally with clients, third party software vendors, etc
• Manage a team of up to 20 people in the delivery of multiple projects

Required Skills / Competencies:

• Outstanding communication skills using a variety of channels
• Manage uncertainty and risk
• Abilty to handle scope changes throughout the project, re-estimate and correct the project timeline
• Leadership ability
• Able to think under pressure
• Establish delivery targets for team
• Excellent planning and organizing skills

Education and Experience:

• 3 - 5 years project management experience
• Experience with any of the following would be an asset: Agile, XP, Scrum, and Learn
• Degree or Diploma in Computer Sciences (or equivalent) would be an asset

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Senior Java Games Developer

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Location: Calgary

Position Summary:
Our Games Development Team is looking for the next great mind to join them. This opportunity offers interesting challenges in software development that are unique to the online gaming space and require innovative solutions and creativity. Our team focuses on continuous improvement of the existing software through refactoring, replacement and advanced testing practices. This position also involves elements of practice leadership and application of disciplined methodology. If you would like the opportunity to design and build great software with a great team, then take advantage of this rare opportunity. Come join us!

The position requires a highly motivated individual to work with in a highly skilled and dynamic team. The candidate must be proactive, dynamic and team orientated, and must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Primary Roles / Responsibilities:

• Solid user interface design skills, both for back office software as well as a good eye for custom user interfaces for player facing gaming software
• Strong analysis and design skill from both technical and business perspectives
• High-level system design and support of the system architecture, APIs and protocols
• Identify and communicate technical problems, processes, and solutions
• Design new databases and work against existing legacy databases
• Creation of web service APIs and integration with 3rd party systems using a variety of approaches (REST, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, SOAP)
• Provide mentoring and oversight to other developers for code and practices

Required Skills / Competencies:

• Expertise with the Java programming language, the Java platform, and Java Application Servers (Resin, Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Design and Patterns
• Exposure to MS SQL Server, T/SQL, PostgreSQL and ORM
• Expertise developing web applications/services for both Linux and Windows environments.
• Strong understanding of HTTP
• Strong web development skills with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience with Flash or Flex is an asset.
• Experience with any Agile Methodologies - specifically Scrum, XP and Lean are key assets
• Experience with other languages and platforms are an asset, especially Ruby, Python, PHP, .NET, or ActionScript 3 and Flash/Flex
• Able to interact with staff and customers to define requirements
• Able to translate requirements into a design that produces high quality efficient code
• Able to accurately evaluate risk and estimate software tasks
• Excellent spoken and written communication with management, team members and customers
• Self direction is a must.

Education, experience or talents in mathematics is a great asset.

Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor of Computer Science, Mathematics degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with all of the required skills.

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Senior Java Systems Developer

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Location: Calgary

Position Summary:
Our Systems Development Team is looking for the next great mind to join them. This opportunity offers interesting challenges in software development that are unique to the online gaming space and require innovative solutions and creativity. Our team focuses on continuous improvement of the existing software through refactoring, replacement and advanced testing practices. This position also involves elements of practice leadership and application of disciplined methodology. If you would like the opportunity to design and build great software with a great team, then take advantage of this rare opportunity. Come join us!

The position requires a highly motivated individual to work with in a highly skilled and dynamic team. The candidate must be proactive, dynamic and team orientated, and must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Primary Roles / Responsibilities:

• Solid user interface design skills, both for back office software as well as a good eye for custom user interfaces for player facing gaming software
• Strong analysis and design skill from both technical and business perspectives
• High-level system design and support of the system architecture, APIs and protocols
• Identify and communicate technical problems, processes, and solutions
• Ensure the overall quality, reliability, and scalability of the system
• Design new databases and work against existing legacy databases
• Creation of web service APIs and integration with 3rd party systems using a variety of approaches (REST, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, SOAP)
• Provide mentoring and oversight to other developers for code and practices

Required Skills / Competencies:

• Expertise with the Java programming language, the Java platform, and Java Application Servers (Resin, Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Design and Patterns
• Exposure to MS SQL Server, T/SQL, PostgreSQL and ORM
• Expertise developing web applications/services for both Linux and Windows environments.
• Strong understanding of HTTP
• Strong web development skills with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience with Flex is an asset.
• Experience with any Agile Methodologies - specifically Scrum, XP and Lean are key assets
• Experience with other languages and platforms are an asset, especially Ruby, Python, PHP, .NET, or ActionScript 3 and Flash/Flex
• Able to interact with staff and customers to define requirements
• Able to translate requirements into a design that produces high quality efficient code
• Able to accurately evaluate risk and estimate software tasks
• Excellent spoken and written communication with management, team members and customers
• Self direction is a must.

Project management experience is an asset.

Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor of Computer Science degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with all of the required skills.

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