EA's Production Infrastructure & Engineering (PI&E) organization provides the essential platforms and infrastructure hosting solutions that power EA's live services. Our charter is to make EA's games and services available to all players anytime and anywhere. To do this, we focus on the high availability of infrastructure, primary services, and studio services. We aim to help developers to experiment and build new games quickly with infrastructure services on-demand and workflows that promote rapid development in the cloud. In all of this, we focus on being there for players where and when they want to play.
The Challenge Ahead:
Modern video games rely on many different services behind the scenes. From matchmaking, marketplace, and social features to anti-cheat detection, leaderboards, and server-side physics calculations. This ever-changing and ever-growing ecosystem exposes new operational challenges with every new game launch.
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will help design system architecture, and provide server infrastructure management and advanced technical support. You will also provide the technical leadership required to effectively deliver high-quality IT solutions and services.
You will report to the Sr. Manager of Infrastructure & Engineering.
Responsibilities:
You will Manage and maintain storage and virtualization infrastructure, including storage arrays, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
You will Monitor and optimize storage utilization, performance, and availability
You will Manage and maintain virtual machine templates, snapshots, and cloning You will collaborate with architects cross-functionally to help set architectural direction for delivering reliable, scalable, and operable solutions.
You will partner with development teams, DBAs and QA in an SRE-model of agile development process.
You will ideate and implement products and services to accelerate growth.
You will transform business ideas into implementable technology solutions, considering build, buy and partnering alternatives.
You will make decisions which may have a broad impact and influence the organizational direction.
You will drive continuous improvement through change management procedures - design and define roadmaps, standardize processes and methodologies, etc.
Qualifications:
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resources to application stack traces.
Hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure for micro-services.
Experience with Continuous Integration, continuous delivery/deployment tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or similar.
Knowledge of UNIX.
Experience integrating Open-Source tools and software.
Experience with TCP/IP, routing, VLANS, AWS Direct Connect, VPN and other networking concepts.
Experience with VMWare, Docker, or Rocket is a definite plus.
Experience with monitoring tools like NewRelic, Nagios or similar.
Excellent DNS, LDAP, syslog and network service experience.
Working knowledge of enterprise storage technologies and protocols such as NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, software-defined Storage, Object Storage.
OBSESSIVE desire to automate away from monolithic structures and improve everything, including process improvements, standardizing tools!
What's in it for you? Glad you asked!
We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the "work hard/play hard" credo every day.
About EA
We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game. Electronic Arts 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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
