Senior DevOps & Automation Engineer — Unreal Engine Games

EA Sports; Victoria; Hybrid; CAD 122,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation

Extended health/dental/vision

Life insurance

Job summary

EA Sports is seeking an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer in Victoria, BC, to design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients and backend services. You will automate builds, deployments, and environment management across Dev, Staging, and Production, while improving reliability and developer velocity.

Reporting to a Software Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with gameplay and tools teams, implement IaC, monitoring, and release governance, and mentor

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development or DevOps engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• 3+ years of programming experience with C++.
• 3+ years of experience developing automation for large-scale or live-service environments.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• IaC frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Experience with Perforce and/or Git workflows.
• Monitoring and alerting systems experience (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Networking, security, environment isolation knowledge.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Desire to automate and enable developers; Unreal Engine build ecosystem knowledge a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients, backend services, and tools.
• Automate build, deployment, and environment management across Dev, Staging, and Production.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues affecting build stability and uptime.
• Collaborate with gameplay, backend, and tools engineers to remove workflow bottlenecks in Unreal Engine.
• Manage version control integrations and branch strategies for stable releases.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting for proactive reliability.
• Drive deployment practice improvements, including test automation and rollback strategies.
• Define and track engineering KPIs like build success rate and MTTR.
• Champion DevOps best practices and promote automated workflows across the studio.
• Mentor engineers and promote robust testing practices across the team.

Skills

CI/CD

Python

C++

Unreal Engine

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Perforce/Git

Grafana/Prometheus

Debugging

Automation

Networking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

P4V/Perforce

Job description

EA Sports is seeking an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer in Victoria, BC, to design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients and backend services. You will automate builds, deployments, and environment management across Dev, Staging, and Production, while improving reliability and developer velocity.

Reporting to a Software Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with gameplay and tools teams, implement IaC, monitoring, and release governance, and mentor