Senior DevOps Engineer

Requisition Number: 161395

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer I

External Description:

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC.

Responsibilities:

• Design, tests and supports server infrastructure per the requirements and capacity demands of our server software.
• Directly support game server environments, from development to production.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of the systems.
• Perform OS configuration and hardening for security and reliability.
• Troubleshoot application, network, and server-level problems.
• Support stress/load testing and systems evolutionary efforts.
• Develop productivity-enhancing tools for automation of system administration tasks.
• Maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures, including runbooks for live support.
• Support an “always-on” gaming network infrastructure.
• Participate in an on-call rotation when needed to support feature launches, live events, and emergency escalations.
• Troubleshoot and correct issues raised from production and live services operations.
• Evaluate and adopt third-party technologies which improve the team efficiency and platform capabilities.
• Work with a global team to implement technologies and provide support within a follow the sun model.
• Mentor junior engineers, new hires, and interns.
• Partner with Development and QA teams for implementation of new game features; partners with other operations teams, IT, and external hosting providers to maintain secure and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited education institution in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in Linux/Unix Systems administration (especially CentOS/RedHat), including design, implementation, ongoing administration, and support of essential systems.
• Public cloud hosting (AWS, specifically) experience with services including EC2, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, Lambda, VPC Networking, IAM and EKS.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, Boto).
• Understanding of Linux containers and related work load scheduling technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
• Experience with systems operational metrics, logging and alerting tools (Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, Grafana).
• Understanding of Networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing, Load Balancing and DNS.
• Interest in DevOps methodologies (CALMS) and tools.
• Intermediate level programming/scripting experience (Python, Java, Go, Javascript, Bash/shell preferred).
• Expertise in OS security fundamentals for publicly accessible Linux servers.
• Experience with at least one source control system and comfort managing development across multiple lines, Perforce and Git.
• Experience with CI/CD automation systems such as Jenkins.
• Experience software build systems like Maven, Gradle, ANT, Nant.
• Working knowledge of database concepts, database structures, relational databases and related applications.
• Understanding of document and key/value store such as Redis, Memcached, DynamoDB, or MongoDB.

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Company Profile:

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: 135

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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.