IT Specialist II

Requisition Number: 156358

Position Title: IT Specialist II

External Description:

IT Specialist-II – Player Experience

Electronic Arts is seeking a highly motivated and highly qualified Support Analyst to become a member of the EA IT Team supporting EA’s Player Experience services, in particular EA’s Worldwide Customer Experience group.

This position will support all Contact Centre Advisor Tools (both within EA and Outsourced Contact Centres) and requires high levels of customer focus delivering support services.  Communication skills are vital in both dealing with EA business users and EA’s technical external partners and suppliers and presenting to senior EA business leads.  The role will require good technical skills for troubleshooting and maintaining applications and ensuring applications continued fitness as business-critical production systems.

The successful candidate must work well both independently and as part of a cross-functional team with the ability to assess high-urgency situations in a calm and collective manner.

 

The role is based in EA’s office in Hyderabad and will require flexible working to cover weekends on call and out of business hours support. 

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot application, network, and server-level problems for WWCE systems
• Perform or supervise break-fix and minor enhancement activity
• Ensure service outages are managed efficiently according to EA’s Major Incident Management processes to minimize service disruption and to keep all stakeholders informed

• Proactively address service delivery issues, either within EA or by vendors
• Perform operational readiness planning and activities for new services and deployments, including technical review

• Support the technical preparation for EA product launches

• Drive multiple service improvement initiatives, both procedural and technical
• Maintain consistency with other IT Ops support teams
• Develop, track, and report key performance measurements for the service
• In conjunction with incident management teams, manage escalations and communications

• Partner with other EA teams on a consistent basis in order to reduce WWCE tools downtime
• Assist the management of the relationships with suppliers, support partners, and application partners, including escalations and service performance

Skills & Qualifications

• Cloud technology experience, ideally AWS administration
• Jira familiarity, to use and construct dashboards and reports
• Web application and Linux experience (i.e. MySQL, PHP, Python,JAVA,HTML,JS, Linux commands, scripting, debugging)
• Salesforce administration experience, in particular, Salesforce Lightning
• Salesforce Lightning development toolsets
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong crisis management skills
• Strong quantitative, analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Ability to define problems, document and establish facts to draw valid conclusions
• Demonstrable IT support expertise, ideally in an ITIL or DevOps structure

 

 

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 239

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.