Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the EA SPORTS™ Technical Team. The successful candidate will design, deploy, and operate solutions in a public cloud environment that integrates with corporate backend infrastructure and services.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design of secure, scalable, and supportable technical solutions and deployment models that adhere to DevOps security standards.
- Participate in sprint planning, conduct regular one-on-one meetings, and mentor engineers in technical design and advanced troubleshooting methodologies.
- Oversee the review and approval of internal and partner technical plans, technical briefs, and work plans.
- Support always-on gaming server infrastructure and provide on-call support for feature launches, live events, and emergency escalations.
- Resolve complex deployment, connectivity, performance, and availability issues within production and live services environments.
- Lead the development of productivity-enhancing tools and evaluate new technologies to improve team efficiency and platform capabilities.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of system configurations, procedures, and runbooks for live support.
Qualifications:
- Six or more years of relevant experience with public cloud services, primarily Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Proven track record in designing, implementing, and operating critical, always-on cloud systems.
- Expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), Helm, and Docker to manage and scale containerized workloads.
- Experience developing automated solutions using Python, Ruby, or Go, and proficiency with configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible.
- Practical knowledge of monitoring systems such as Prometheus and Grafana, and pipeline automation platforms including Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub.
- Demonstrated expertise in cloud security best practices, Linux server security, and cloud networking.
- Working knowledge of database concepts, including RDBMS and NoSQL, with specific experience managing and optimizing Database-as-a-Service offerings.
