DevOps Engineer, Electronic Arts
Sports Technology
CA$115.1-161.2k
Video game company
Job no longer available
Video game company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$115.1-161.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to play, by creating games and experiences for the global player community that are a reflection of our diverse world.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for candidates with a passion for technology and experience designing, deploying, and operating solutions in a public cloud environment that interacts with corporate backend infrastructure and services
- You have demonstrated the ability to work with large-scale systems and prioritize competing work efforts across the team
- You are passionate about building automation to reduce manual tasks
- 6+ years of relevant experience with public cloud services (especially Azure, AWS, and GCP), including design, implementation, and operational support of critical systems
- Practical experience with several DevOps tools and methodologies:
- Infrastructure as Code solutions such as Terraform
- Container workload technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
- Configuration management systems such as Chef and Ansible
- Monitoring/observability systems such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Pipeline automation systems such as Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub
- Experience developing automated solutions with at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Go
- Working knowledge of the Git distributed version control system
- Demonstrated expertise in operating system and network security fundamentals for publicly accessible services hosted on Linux servers
- Understanding and experience implementing network resources in public cloud context, including DNS, subnetting, route tables, NAT, and firewalls
- Working knowledge of database concepts such as schema design, relational database management systems, NoSQL/Key-Value stores, performance tuning, client security and configuration
- Experience porting large applications from a physical data center into a public cloud environment
What the job involves
- The DevOps team is looking for an experienced DevOps Senior Engineer to join our team
- A DevOps Senior Engineer will design solutions from the ground up, troubleshoot problems at both the network and Linux operating system level, and be able to collaborate across multiple teams of differing capabilities
- Reporting to the Technical Director, you will partner with the Operations Development Director and Technical Director to estimate and implement projects and deliver excellent results
- You will have a focus on uptime and predictability
- You will also involve some on-call support duties
- Design technical solutions in a secure, supportable fashion that minimizes toil on the team
- Troubleshoot deployment issues, connectivity challenges, performance problems, and availability outages
- Establish a deployment and support model that adheres to the DevOps security standards
- Develop productivity enhancing tools to automate common system administration tasks
- Maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures, including runbooks for live support
- Support an always-on gaming server infrastructure
- Provide on-call support when needed for feature launches, live events, and emergency escalations
- Troubleshoot and correct issues raised from production and live services operations
- Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the team efficiency and platform capabilities
Our take
EA is a leading global game company, responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest games of the last 20 years. Its publishing successes include giants like The Sims, Battlefield, and Mass Effect, while EA's titles, such as Fifa, Madden, and NBA Live, have also seen market-leading success.
A series of acquisitions in 2021 marked EA's push into mobile gaming, which has become the driving force behind the rapid growth of the global video gaming market, and has remained a clear focus for the company, despite the cancellation of its popular Apex Legends Mobile game. The company also expressed interest in NFTs and "play-to-earn" games, going so far as to label them "the future of the industry", but has since taken steps to distance itself from the idea, as it proved unpopular with gamers.
This combined model of publishing and development has allowed EA to put its name to a huge range of products, making the brand iconic in the gaming world. It has formed major partnerships with the likes of Disney, giving it full control of creating in-demand games, such as within the Star Wars franchise. In the upcoming years, the company plans to focus on games-as-a-service, as it embraces the evolution of the gaming world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 1982
$2m
SERIES A
May 1982
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Andrew Wilson
(CEO, not founder)Joined EA as Vice President and Executive Producer in 2000, and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO.
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