Lead Infrastructure Engineer - GPU Fleet & Cloud Ops

Electronic Arts (EA); Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation: 3 weeks

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Sick time: 10 days

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to own the GPU fleet used by researchers, set technical direction for GPU operations, and lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives. The role spans Montreal, Redwood City, or Vancouver, with a hybrid schedule and reporting to the Head of Data and Infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of production infra experience in AWS, plus expertise in GPU scaling, automation, and observability. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production infrastructure experience with deep AWS depth.
• Experience scheduling, diagnosing, and managing GPUs in AWS specifically.
• Experience operating GPU fleets at 1000+ GPU scale.
• Scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, bash, or equivalent.
• Infrastructure as code experience (Terraform or equivalent).
• Familiarity with a GPU scheduling/orchestration layer (Slurm, Kubernetes with Kueue/Volcano, Ray, dStack or SkyPilot).
• Observability practice including Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own GPU fleet operations across our AWS estate.
• Build the scheduling layer from zero.
• Diagnose GPU and node failures fast and completely and drive hardware evidence and replacement through AWS support and capacity-block channels.
• Run researcher support as a first-class product including office hours, support channel, and self-service tooling.
• Instrument the fleet including utilization, queue depth, job success rate, and cost per experiment metrics.
• Partner with external compute and lab partnerships as a technical contact, and with EA's central infrastructure groups on shared services and escalation.
• Author runbooks, decision records, and onboarding docs.

Skills

AWS GPU fleets

GPU orchestration

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Tools

Slurm

Kueue

Volcano

Ray

dStack

SkyPilot

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to own the GPU fleet used by researchers, set technical direction for GPU operations, and lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives. The role spans Montreal, Redwood City, or Vancouver, with a hybrid schedule and reporting to the Head of Data and Infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of production infra experience in AWS, plus expertise in GPU scaling, automation, and observability. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role.