Advanced DevOps Engineer - EA SPORTS™ TECHNOLOGY
Electronic Arts3 days ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design secure, scalable, supportable cloud solutions and deployment models that minimize operational toil.
- Design, deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize always-on gaming server infrastructure and live services.
- Develop automation and productivity tools to reduce manual effort and improve platform capabilities.
- Provide on-call support for feature launches, live events, emergency escalations, and production incidents.
- Resolve complex deployment, connectivity, performance, and availability issues across network and Linux environments.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to skill development reviews and goal setting, and provide technical guidance.
- Review and approve internal and partner technical plans, briefs, and work plans.
- Maintain system documentation, procedures, and runbooks for live support.
- Participate in sprint planning and collaborate with technical and operational leaders across teams.
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.
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker for managing and scaling containerized workloads.
- Experience developing automation with Python, Ruby, or Go.
- Proficiency with Chef and 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 managing and optimizing Database-as-a-Service offerings.
- Experience troubleshooting deployment, connectivity, performance, and availability issues in production environments.
- Ability to mentor engineers, review technical plans, manage competing priorities, and support large-scale systems.
Benefits
- British Columbia employees receive three weeks of vacation per year to start and 10 days of paid sick time annually.
- Benefits include extended health, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; and retirement benefits for regular full-time employees.
- Parental, maternity, and adoption benefits include company top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary, with stated leave periods.
- Some roles may be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programs.
- EA offers wellness programs, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, learning and career growth opportunities, and workplace accommodations.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A team where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. Regardless of your role, team, or location, this is a place where everyone makes play happen. Join us.