# Advanced DevOps Games Software Engineer - American Football

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Orlando, Florida
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking an Advanced DevOps Games Software Engineer to work on American Football games, including Madden, College Football, and a new project. As an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain scalable systems and tools that improve developer velocity, build stability, and service reliability across multiple environments.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients, backend services, and tools using C++, Python, C#, Groovy, and more.

- Automate build, deployment, and environment management processes across Dev, Staging, and Production.

- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).

- Monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues affecting build stability, uptime, and environment health.

- Collaborate closely with gameplay, backend, and tools engineers to identify and eliminate workflow bottlenecks within Unreal Engine.

- Manage version control integrations and branch strategies to ensure stable and consistent release cycles.

- Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions to ensure proactive service reliability.

- Drive continuous improvement in deployment practices, including test automation, rollback strategies, and release governance.

- Contribute to defining and tracking key engineering KPIs, including build success rate, environment uptime, and mean time to recovery (MTTR).

- Champion DevOps best practices across the studio, helping teams adopt modern, automated workflows.

- Foster a strong testing culture by actively promoting best practices, mentoring team members, and driving the consistent adoption of effective testing methodologies across the team.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of professional software development or DevOps engineering experience.

- 5+ years of experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.

- 3+ years of programming experience with C++.

- 3+ years of experience developing automation for large-scale or live-service environments.

- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Experience with one or more cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (multi-cloud experience preferred).

- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation for scalable, repeatable environment management.

- Experience with Perforce and/or Git version control workflows.

- Experience building and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or CloudWatch).

- Strong understanding of networking, security practices, and environment isolation.

- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment.

- A passion for automation, developer enablement, and building reliable systems that scale.

- Knowledge of Unreal Engine and its build and development ecosystem (e.g., Unreal Build Tool, Unreal Automation Tool, Horde, SubmitTool) is desired.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- CI/CD systems
- Automation
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Unreal Engine

### Nice to have
- Multiplayer
- Live games
- Artifact management
- Distributed caching
- CI parallelization
- Secure software development practices
- Secrets management
- Automated security scanning

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