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Build Engineer - DRE (1-year contract)

DRE are EA's continuous integration and build experts. We are located in EA studios across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

We provide automation services to our internal customers - EA's game, engine, product, and content teams. Our services include Build & Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Metrics Reporting, and Virtual Infrastructure Management. Learn more about us here.

We are looking for a Build Engineer to join DRE. You will report to Engineering Manager and work with your peers to provide excellent services to our partner teams at EA Vancouver.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work as a technical liaison with development teams to address build issues and improvements
  • Develop and maintain automation pipelines in our CI system (Jenkins)
  • Work with our internal customers on designing, prototyping and implementing new automated workflows
  • Monitor automation systems and proactively respond to breakages
  • Monitor metrics to optimize automation systems
  • Manage virtual infrastructure, including deploying and monitoring VMs
  • Maintain the product backlog including tasks and their priorities
  • Implement game preservation / archival tasks when applicable

Desired Skills:

  • 3+ years experience or education in software development, or related discipline
  • Excellent understanding of debugging best practices
  • Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation jobs in CI systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI)
  • Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Groovy, Python, Powershell, Batch)
  • Experience with source-control administration (e.g. Perforce, Git)
  • Results oriented and analytical, with a customer and business focus.
  • Creative, curious, and motivated to grow your technical abilities.
  • Strong teamwork skills, but also the ability to take ownership and work independently
  • Communicate and discuss technical topics with both technical and business audiences.
  • Excellent documentation skills

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with OO languages (e.g. Java, C++, C#)
  • Experience deploying and maintaining virtual infrastructure (e.g. Virtual Machines)
  • Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. ZABBIX)
  • Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Experience with secrets management tools (e.g. Hashicorp Vault)
  • Experience with metrics gathering and visualization tools (e.g. Splunk, Elastic Search, Kibana)
  • Experience with container orchestration and management tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes)

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.