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Développeur.se (DRE) / Software Developer - (DRE)

The Challenge Ahead

We are DRE (Development & Release Engineering) - a central EA team at the intersection of DevOps, Release Management and Build Engineering. We build, manage and maintain the build pipelines for the majority of EA’s studios worldwide. We are looking for an engineer to work with our DRE Cobra team that is based in Europe and in North America. You'll work with developing and evolving the Continuous Integration and Deployment systems for the games being developed at EA, and provide support for these services. You will report to a Software Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

You will be the subject matter expert in software development and responsible for providing technical guidance in software development best practices. You will work with the development of our build scripts, tools, and services for automating game processes (i.e. automation to turn source code and assets into playable games). You will work with our customers to ensure we can provide services that help them improve their software and find the fun faster.

The Ideal candidate will have:

• Technical leadership experience
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in software development (We use Python but it is not a strict requirement)
• Great software development practices (Code Reviews, Unit Testing, …)
• Experience in Azure DevOps
• Experience in Groovy, Jenkins JobDSL, and Jenkins Pipeline or similar CI system
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (We use Terraform)
• Familiarity with container/VM technologies (Docker, vSphere, and Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with Source Control concepts: Git, Perforce or similar tools
• Familiarity with Gitlab (or similar technologies)
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners
• Ability to investigate and resolve technical issues

Would be a bonus:

• Previous experience from the game industry
• Monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, DataDog
• An understanding of Agile software development practices.
• Experience with As-Code management tools (e.g. Ansible, Packer)
• Familiarity with Document Databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
• Experience with Package repositories (e.g. Artifactory).
• Experience in languages such as C# and PowerShell