Sr ITO Service Specialist

Requisition Number: 156998

Position Title: Senior IT Specialist I

External Description:

Title: Customer Success Specialist 

Location : Hyderabad, India

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. Our game franchises are offered as both packaged goods products and online services delivered through Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. EA has more than 275 million registered players and operates in 75 countries.

About Game Creation Experience Operations (GCEO)

The Game Creation Experience Operations unit inspires the service engine for Game Creation, by overseeing the creation, maintenance and support of all products 24x7. GCEO is fully integrated in a DevOps model where development, vendors, operations and customer service are tightly woven. Subsequently, we have a culture where proactive discovery happens as one team, we report, we iterate, and resolve items together and quickly in agile environment. Ownership of the outcome is critical to our customer experience, GCEO will own items through the entire service life cycle, regardless of which team may do the work, to ensure there is always timely status, transparency and quality communication. It is our mission and core value to provide an excellent customer experience, so much so, that our emphasis is not on volumes of ticket or fast ticket or request resolution, but instead how happy our customers are with our service and quality of the interactions with them.

What will you do?

We are seeking a passionate individuals to join our global team of Operations Manager and Experts who focus on delivering reliable Game Creation Experience (GCE) product & services across EA studios and locations.

The Customer Success Specialist (CSS) oversees services for all EA locations and clients to ensure consistent performance of our service. The CSS leads technical troubleshooting, driving front line activities for issues, ensuring the uptime and stability of our services, and acting as the first escalation point for all incidents and problems. The CSS is also tightly integrated into the entire development process, profoundly contributing to daily stand-ups, task coordination, issue tracking, vendor relations, and quality assurance. A critical function of this role is as GCEO’s service Domain Expert. In this role, the CSS maintains an expert understanding of all systems, applications and integrations for all services. As part of this, they are continuously improving the services through developments activities, risk assessments, new features, and customer feedback. In addition, they are solely responsible for onboarding new team members, and accountable for identifying and maintaining domain succession plans.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

1. Improve customer service experience, create engaged customers and facilitate organic growth
2. Frontline Technical expert for GCEO’s portfolio, platform management including daily operations, planning, regular maintenance, audits, monitoring and analysis, reporting, and service improvements 
3. Domain expert to effectively on board, educate and train customers on applications and services
4. Coordinate customers, partners, vendors and partners worldwide including leading calls and driving resolutions across diverse teams
5. Encourage product vendor relations for organisation; interactions include cadence meetings, evaluations, licencing, defect tracking and service
6. Participant in daily standups, including sprint planning, coordination of effort, and task assignment and completion
7. Proactively participate in continuous service improvements as motivated by customer feedback, knowledge of products, product roadmap, and strategic planning
8. Implement product technical succession and roadmaps that ensure existing organisational skill and knowledge meets service requirements
9. Build and maintain organisational awareness of problems via a ‘Known Error Database’
10. Execute the process/structure to handle outages, major incidents.
11. Principal leader for service outage & restoration during an incident’s life cycle
12. Flag repetitive tasks as automation opportunities and drive implementation with product team
13. Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.

If you’re interested in this role, you’ll need:

• Proven working experience as a customer success specialist, or equivalent experience of alteast 3+ years
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior level stakeholders, including communicating complex technical problems concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage multiple products while maintaining a high quality of work
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS & Azure is a plus)
• Resourceful, proactive, curious and innovative - identifies issues and implements solutions
• Advanced English and communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Highly organized with attention to detail and strong time management skills
• Proven attendance with ability to work shifts, after hours and weekends as required

Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise SDLC/ALM tools, such as JIRA, Perforce, Artifactory, and Jenkins
• Basic knowledge of automated build pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment
• Experience with standard Microsoft.NET web development tools including C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML 5+, CSS3+, JavaScript, WCF, REST API, jQuery
• Understanding of virtualization and cloud platforms (e.g. VMware, Azure, or AWS); Preferred AWS or Azure certifications
• Experience supporting enterprise level solutions and databases
• Exposure to source control management experience including advanced concepts like branching strategies and developer workflows
• Strong background in Linux / Unix Administration
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts; e.g. routing, subnets, DNS, etc.
• ITIL Foundation Certification and/or experience working in an ITIL organization is desired.

EA 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. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

• We love to brag about our great perks like Global fitness program, Sodexo (Food Coupons), Parental Insurance & Medical, Accident & life insurance and since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that succeeds on creativity and individuality.

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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: 260

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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.