Description
Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the EA SPORTS™ Technical Team. The successful candidate will design, deploy, and operate solutions in a public cloud environment that integrates with corporate backend infrastructure and services.
The DevOps Engineer will partner with the Operations Development Director and Technical Director to estimate, plan, and implement projects while delivering exceptional results. The ideal candidate has demonstrated success working with large-scale systems, prioritizing competing initiatives, and maintaining a strong focus on uptime and predictability.
Responsibilities:
- Design & Architecture: Contribute to the design of secure, scalable, and supportable technical solutions and deployment models that adhere to DevOps security standards while minimizing team toil.
- Engineering Leadership: Participate in sprint planning, conduct regular one-on-one meetings, contribute to engineer skill development reviews and goal setting, and mentor engineers in technical design and advanced troubleshooting methodologies.
- Review & Approval: Oversee the review and approval of internal and partner technical plans, technical briefs, and work plans.
- Operational Support: Support always-on gaming server infrastructure and provide on-call support for feature launches, live events, and emergency escalations.
- Troubleshooting: Resolve complex deployment, connectivity, performance, and availability issues within production and live services environments.
- Automation & Innovation: Lead the development of productivity-enhancing tools and evaluate new technologies to improve team efficiency and platform capabilities.
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of system configurations, procedures, and runbooks for live support.
Qualifications:
- Google Cloud Focus: Six or more years of relevant experience with public cloud services, with a primary emphasis on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Critical System Design: Proven track record in the design, implementation, and operational support of critical, always-on cloud systems.
- Containerization & DevOps: Expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), Helm, and Docker to manage and scale containerized workloads.
- Automation & Programming: Experience developing automated solutions using Python, Ruby, or Go, as well as proficiency with configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible.
- Observability & CI/CD: Practical knowledge of monitoring systems such as Prometheus and Grafana, and pipeline automation platforms including Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub.
- Cloud Security & Networking: Demonstrated expertise in cloud security best practices, Linux server security, and cloud networking.
- Cloud Database Management: Working knowledge of database concepts, including RDBMS and NoSQL, with specific experience managing and optimizing Database-as-a-Service offerings.
Salary: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
Benefits: For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees.