Director of DevOps

Requisition Number: 185227

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer II

External Description:

We Are EA

And we make games - How cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is challenging. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.

 

The Challenge:

With the constant increase in velocity of change to keep up with our technology and services, the need for a central group of dedicated senior DevOps/SRE engineers was formed. Their goal is the reduction of run the business workloads through cross organizational standardization, automation and backlog reduction. This group needs a engineering leader to take them onto the next step of transitioning off of support workloads and focusing on large-scale projects.

 

As a Director of DevOps:

• You will report to a Director of Engineering.

• You will manage a growing team of DevOps/SRE engineers with an initial team size of 6

• As a central team you will collaborate with the development teams and use industry-standard solutions to build automation solutions for common operational/development tasks

• You will drive standards within your team to monitor service health, log analysis, and automation

• You will drive software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including Agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations

• You will push towards operational excellence by identifying opportunities to automate away manual processes.

• You will drive the reduction of our "run the business", scale our organization and replace costs to our business.

• You will evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the team efficiency and platform capabilities

Qualifications

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.

• 10+ years of experience as a Software engineer.

• 5+ years as a people manager

• Experience using Perforce or Git-based workflows for code management

• Experience with Python, Golang, C#, or other scripting languages

• Understand software configuration management and release management.

• Experience working with ticketing systems such as JIRA.

• Experience creating technical documentation for internal and external use.

• Passion for automation and workflow efficiency.

 

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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: 32

Can this position be remote?: 0

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.