Senior Systems Engineer

Requisition Number: 175197

Position Title: Systems Engineer II

External Description:

Electronic Arts Information Technology (EAIT) group keeps our employees and business operations connected globally. As a digital entertainment company, EA's enterprise technology needs are diverse and span across game development, workforce collaboration, marketing, publishing, player experience, security, and corporate activities.

Responsibilities:

What work needs to get done:

You will work as part of a team who manages the design of the system architecture, server infrastructure management and advanced technical support. You will also provide the technical leadership required to provide high-quality IT solutions and services that meet EA's needs. You will report to EARO Site IT manager.

Your primary focus is server deployment in traditional datacenters and virtualization in the Cloud, but will also include research, evaluation, planning, designing, allocation, implementation and support of all aspects of EA's Enterprise infrastructure to provide solutions for the Business.

What you will make:

- Provide L3 (advanced) troubleshooting support, resolution of outages, service level issues, and user support needs requiring collaboration for servers hosted at EARO Datacenter.

- Long-term thinking concerning major design and technology choices.

- Collaborate with architects across departments to help set the architectural direction for delivering reliable, scalable, and operable solutions.

- Partner with local and global teams across EA, in a DevOps model.

- Participate in global projects that may lead to decisions that have a broad impact and influence the IT organizational direction.

- Drives continuous improvement of the IT framework - design, the definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies

- Research and implement productivity-enhancing tools for Systems Administration activities.

Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of L3 experience

- Experienced with Linux and Windows flavors

- Excellent capabilities around capacity planning and analysis of networking, storage and computing power on medium to large DCs

- Experience with automation and configuration management tools (Preferred: Chef and/or Puppet)

- Development experience in one of these languages – Python, PowerShell, C#.

- Experience with one or more concurrent versioning system tools. Perforce is our tool of choice.

- Knowledge of platform as a service tool (Azure, AWS)

- Knowledge of Kubernetes and/or Docker

Familiar with:

- VMWare, Docker, Kubernetes, Zabbix, Nagios, or similar

- TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NFS and networking experience

- NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, FCP

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop and deliver games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

Join us in driving the next revolution in games.

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Community / Marketing Title: Senior Systems 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.

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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: 95

Can this position be remote?: 0

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.