Software Engineer II - Development Release Engineering - contract

POSITION TITLE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DEVELOPMENT RELEASE ENGINEER

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This role involves performing the duties of a Development Release Engineer which provides vital end to end software development and deployment services to developers of game titles across a variety of platforms. The Development Release Engineer is part of a centralized team (DRE), responsible for DevOps across EA. The role ensures the systems are running smoothly, gathers requirements, provides feedback, and manages configuration management and development test automation infrastructure solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure that tasks are delivered in a timely manner and that adequate resources are available for upcoming tasks
• Proactively provide support and fix issues before they are raised by the game team.
• Provide feedback to the game team about best practices and give advice on the best way to accomplish goals.
• Communicate new ideas, new tech, and fixes made on their title to their DRE colleagues.
• Maintain and support automation farm for builds and tests, including software configuration, software updates, and setting up new projects

• Provide first-tier troubleshooting support for automation infrastructure

• Monitors systems and proactively respond to breakages

• Develop and maintain scripts in C# for automated game-testing

• Document issues and solutions to enable team members to assist in problems and apply the solutions across a variety of environments and game teams

• Monitor and analyze metrics in order to optimize automation systems

• Manage access requests within CM infrastructure (source code and build output)

• Integrate test systems and tools into production game code in C++

• Maintain tools, integrations, and technologies to support a highly reliable release environment

• Provide accurate time estimation as input to project plans

• Report regular status on assigned tasks and proactively identify project risks and issues
• Some travel may be required (< 10%)

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 3+ year Software development experience

• Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment

• Experience with CI/CD tools Jenkins, Maven, GitlabCI

• Experience with revision control systems (e.g. Perforce) administration and version-control concepts including branching and integrations
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: C#, C++, Python, Perl, Java, XML

• Experience writing, debugging and optimizing SQL queries and stored procedures in MS SQL or similar SQL based database server

• Knowledge of Configuration Management and CM best practices      

• Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in highly complex systems including network, OS or hardware

• Excellent communication skills

• Strong ability to self-manage and prioritize work effectively within deadlines

• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions

• Excellent documentation skills

DESIRED:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience
• Knowledge of containers, Chef/Puppet, Elastic
• Knowledge and experience of art pipelines

• Experience with distributed build systems

• Experience with large-scale, high-availability, high-throughput automation systems

• Preferred knowledge in gaming consoles