
Advanced DevOps Engineer - EA Sports Technology
Electronic Arts1 day ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design secure, scalable, supportable cloud solutions and deployment models while reducing operational toil.
- Support always-on gaming server infrastructure and participate in on-call rotations for launches, live events, and emergencies.
- Resolve complex deployment, connectivity, performance, and availability issues in production and live-service environments.
- Develop productivity-enhancing automation tools and evaluate technologies that improve efficiency and platform capabilities.
- Review and approve internal and partner technical plans, briefs, and work plans.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to skill development reviews and goal setting, and support sprint planning.
- Maintain comprehensive system configuration, procedure, and live-support runbook documentation.
Requirements
- Six or more years of relevant experience with public cloud services, primarily Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine; AWS experience is also acceptable.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating critical, always-on cloud systems at scale.
- Expertise with Kubernetes, GKE, Helm, and Docker for managing and scaling containerized workloads.
- Experience developing automation with Python, Ruby, or Go and using Chef or Ansible for configuration management.
- Practical knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub for observability and pipeline automation.
- Expertise in cloud security, Linux server security, and cloud networking, including load balancers, DNS, subnetting, route tables, NAT, and firewalls.
- Working knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL database concepts, including management and optimization of Database as a Service offerings.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, troubleshoot complex systems, prioritize competing initiatives, and learn emerging DevOps technologies.
Benefits
- British Columbia compensation range of CAD 122,300–170,700 per year.
- Three weeks of vacation per year to start and 10 days of sick time per year in Canada.
- Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary, including 12 weeks for maternity leave and four weeks for parental/adoption leave.
- Extended health, dental, and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; and a retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Potential eligibility for bonus and other incentive programs, plus wellness, paid time off, family leave, healthcare, mental well-being support, retirement savings, and complimentary games.
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About Electronic Arts
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