Lead Incident Manager

Requisition Number: 183971

Position Title: Systems Engineer I

External Description:

EA's Production Infrastructure & Engineering (PI&E) organization provides the essential platforms and infrastructure hosting solutions that power EA's live services. Our charter is to make EA's games and services available to all players anytime and anywhere. To do this, we focus on the high availability of infrastructure, primary services, and studio services. We aim to help developers to experiment and build new games quickly with infrastructure services on-demand and workflows that promote rapid development in the cloud. In all of this, we focus on being there for players where and when they want to play.

The Challenge Ahead

The Mission Control Center (MCC) resides within the EA Production Infrastructure & Engineering (PI&E) team which is responsible for the infrastructure that our games run on. The MCC is the central point of contact for the PI&E team and plays a key role in driving online 'always on' services keeping a watchful eye over all monitored endpoints to ensure a continuous 24X7 uptime for our stakeholders.

As Lead Incident Manager, you will report to the MCC's Senior Manager.

Responsibilities:

• You will work together with the MCC Manager to ensure that operations during a shift are managed to proper SLAs and standards are followed.
• You will be the first point of escalations for MCC team members and partners and stakeholders.
• You will be Incident Manager for Severity 1 and Severity 2 Incidents (coordinating the incident from the initial triage to the resolution, engaging teams, escalating long running incidents).
• During an assigned shift MCC Lead assists with queue oversight, you will triage high priority incidents, identifying the needs of MCC and areas of improvement across the MCC team.
• You will assist in tracking and providing data for internal group reports that detail the success and utilization of our Mission Control Center, disaster recovery policies and emergency/incident management drills.
• You will analyze data to help provide results of emergency management and disaster recovery drills as defined by agreed incident escalation and disaster recovery policies.
• You will partner with other EA Operational teams on a consistent basis to reduce systems downtime.
• You will escalate emergencies to management as needed.
• You will ensure MCC notification and escalation procedures are followed.
• You understand the rigorous demands a 24x7 real-time online operational environment requires.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience with Systems Operations/Engineering organizational responsibilities-- including ownership and management of incident escalation, resolution tracking and resolution reporting.
• 1+ years of experience working in a Lead capacity.
• Knowledge of Cloud technology offerings, Networking, virtualization, and security fundamentals.
• Experience or dealings with Network Operations Center best practices.
• Strong understanding of company resources such as databases, software applications, and organizational structure.
• Strong incident management skills.
• Demonstrated skills in quantitative, analytical, and conceptual thinking.
• Ability to define problems, document and establish facts to draw valid conclusions.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills and confidence to communicate under crisis conditions.
• Strong understanding of ITIL, especially Incident, Change and Problem Management – their purpose and how they are connected.
• Availability for shift work-- including weekends and holidays.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.は、インタラクティブ・エンターテイメント・ソフトウェアの世界的大手企業です。 EAは、インターネットに接続されたコンソール、パソコン、携帯電話、タブレットに対してゲーム、コンテンツおよびオンラインサービスを提供しています。

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Days Open: 24

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。