Esports
Experienced DevOps Engineer - EA Sports Technology
Mid Level
Vancouver, Canada
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The EA SPORTS Technical Team is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for technology and a strong background in designing, deploying, and operating solutions in public cloud environments integrated with corporate infrastructure and services. The role involves collaborating with peers and technical leadership to deliver technical initiatives, support large scale systems, and improve platform reliability and operational efficiency. It requires hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, and automation, along with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and balance competing priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and supportable cloud infrastructure.
- Diagnose and resolve deployment, networking, Linux, performance, and availability issues in production environments.
- Develop tools and scripts to automate routine tasks and improve operational efficiency.
- Support always-on gaming infrastructure and participate in on-call support for live events, feature launches, and emergency escalations.
- Evaluate and implement technologies that improve reliability, scalability, and team productivity.
- Work with peers, technical leadership, Development, QA, IT, and external partners to deliver technical initiatives.
- Maintain system documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 3+ years designing, implementing, and operating public cloud infrastructure and production systems.
- Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Chef, or Ansible.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub.
- Working knowledge of Git.
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, system security, and cloud networking, including DNS, routing, subnetting, NAT, firewalls, and load balancing.
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, performance tuning, and database security.
- Passion for learning new technologies, exploring emerging DevOps practices, and applying new skills to improve automation, infrastructure reliability, and platform capabilities.
Preferred Skills
- Experience migrating or modernising applications for public cloud environments is an asset.
Benefits & Perks
- For Canada, benefits include vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan to regular full-time employees.
- Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
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