Advanced DevOps Games Software Engineer - American Football
Electronic Arts5 hours ago
Victoria, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients, backend services, and tools.
- Automate build, deployment, and environment management across development, staging, and production environments.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions for scalable and repeatable environment management.
- Monitor, diagnose, and resolve build stability, uptime, and environment-health issues.
- Collaborate with gameplay, backend, and tools engineers to eliminate Unreal Engine workflow bottlenecks.
- Manage version-control integrations and branch strategies for stable release cycles.
- Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions for proactive service reliability.
- Drive test automation, rollback strategies, release governance, and continuous deployment improvements.
- Define and track engineering KPIs including build success rate, environment uptime, and mean time to recovery.
- Promote DevOps practices, testing methodologies, automation, and reliable workflows across the studio.
- Mentor team members and advocate for continuous improvement in automation and DevOps processes.
Requirements
- 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 Docker, Kubernetes, cloud providers, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, version-control workflows, and monitoring systems.
- Experience with Perforce and/or Git version-control workflows.
- Strong understanding of networking, security practices, and environment isolation.
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.
- Knowledge of Unreal Engine and its build and development ecosystem is desired.
- Experience with multiplayer or live games, artifact management, distributed caching, CI parallelization, secure software development, secrets management, automated security scanning, and console or PC game build pipelines is a bonus.
- Desire to mentor engineers and passion for automation, developer enablement, reliable systems, and continuous learning.
Benefits
- One-year temporary full-time role with benefits.
- Hybrid onsite work required in Victoria, British Columbia.
- Canadian benefits include three weeks of vacation per year to start, 10 days of sick time per year, extended health, dental and vision coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Additional EA benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, and complimentary games.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureBashC#C++DatadogDockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGroovyJenkinsKubernetesPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraformUnreal Engine
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