Advanced DevOps Games Software Engineer - American Football

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.