DevOps Software Engineer - FIFA

Requisition Number: 173540

Position Title: Software Engineer III

External Description:

The EA SPORTS DevOps team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team. We're looking for candidates with experience in both network and Unix/Linux administration and passion for technology.

You will partner with the Operations Development Director and Technical Lead to estimate and build projects and provide excellent results. You should have experience working with large-scale systems. The successful candidate should be passionate building automation to reduce manual tasks. This role will also involve some on-call support tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, configures and supports all server environments; analyzes the processes for year-over-year efficiency improvements
• Troubleshoot application, network, and server-level problems
• Troubleshoots game server infrastructure at various layers, including network, load balancing, operating system, database, cache, and application
• Participates in an on-call rotation to support feature launches, live events, and critical-level incident escalations
• Evaluate and adopt technologies which improve the team efficiency and platform capabilities
• Works with a global team within a follow the sun model
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place to detect and troubleshoot problem
• Analyzes incidents in a consistent postmortem process to ensure preventative measures and/or sufficient monitoring is in place to reduce time to restore in the future
• Utilizes industry-standard CI/CD tools to build pipelines that automate common operational tasks

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant experience with design, deployment and support of Linux-based server infrastructures
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and technologies, (Docker, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
• Collaboration, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing
• Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, or Ruby
• Experience developing workflow automations and tools utilizing programming languages such as: Python, Bash, Java, JavaScript or Ruby
• Working knowledge of version control systems such as GIT or Perforce
• Experience of common scripting. (Perl, Shell, Python, PHP, the more the better)
• Possesses a security-conscious mindset for server infrastructure design, utilizing the principle of least privilege wherever possible
• Understands the purpose and operation of the various protocols that support TCP/IP-networked infrastructures
• Experience with public cloud hosting services with an API-oriented approach to programmatically manage resources

Nice to Have:

• Experience with advanced networking concepts, infrastructure and protocols. Key areas of knowledge include load balancing, routing principles, secure network design and internet service performance tuning
• Experience with administration and usage of relational database systems, especially MySQL and PostgreSQL along with SQL experience for DML and DDL commands
• Experience with administration and usage of document and key-value stores such as Cassandra, Memcached, Redis, RethinkDB, or MongoDB
• Experience with agile development
• Experience to Jira/Jaas

 

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Community / Marketing Title: DevOps Software Engineer - FIFA

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: 22

Can this position be remote?: 1

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.