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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Community / Marketing Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

EEOText: EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand, Veteranenstatus oder anderer durch das Gesetz geschützte Charakteristiken getroffen. Wir berücksichtigen unter Einhaltung der geltenden rechtlichen Bestimmungen auch qualifizierte Kandidaten mit Vorstrafen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.

Days Open: 135

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.