System Engineer

Electronic Arts Information Technology (EAIT) group keeps our employees and business operations connected globally. As a digital entertainment company, EA’s enterprise technology needs are diverse and span across game development, workforce collaboration, marketing, publishing, player experience, security, and corporate activities. We bring creative technology services to each one of these areas, keeping everyone creative, collaborative and productive. Our team ensures better play across all of EA and needs your help to do that.

As an important member of the Private Cloud Engineering team, you will report to a senior manager and play an instrumental role in infrastructure engineering for private cloud projects.

This is a hybrid role, and you will need to travel to our EA office 1-2 times per week, and travel to other EA offices for planning meetings.

Responsibilities

• Be a primary infrastructure engineer for private cloud projects and initiatives.
• Manage a diverse range of tasks to ensure impactful delivery in areas including infrastructure, transformation and migration, security, and integration.
• Collaborate with the architecture team to produce comprehensive designs that cover technology aspects, service support, management, monitoring, and maintenance needs.
• Contribute to the development and optimization of our private cloud platform and backend services.
• Uphold information security best practices and ensure compliance with information assurance requirements in all design and implementations.
• Help improve the current environment and delivery methodologies, advocating for automation to ensure consistency and integrity.

Qualifications

• Technical skills
  • 5 years practical experience in supporting Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure, with knowledge of virtualization, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
  • Proficiency with server infrastructure, including virtualization, storage, managed backup, and hyper-converged platforms.
  • Experience with SQL/no-SQL databases.
  • Proficiency with Cloud Technologies, such as Azure or AWS.
  • Expertise in scripting languages and automation tools, such as Python and Ansible.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with Linux systems, equivalent to LPIC-2 level.
  • Prior experience migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
• Soft skills
  • Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions.
  • Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team.