Senior Manager Software Engineering

Electronic Arts (EA); Madrid; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Jira/Artifactory experience

Onsite collaboration across time zones

Job summary

Electronic Arts (EA) is hiring a senior leader to drive enterprise-scale engineering platforms that support game development teams globally. You will lead Perforce SRE/DevOps engineering, automation, tooling, and platform reliability across multiple titles and studios.

You will mentor engineers in SRE operations, CI/CD, IaC with Ansible, Linux, and monitoring, and partner with engineering teams and stakeholders on requirements, incidents, and improvements while aligning technical roadmaps over

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise-level software solutions.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise-scale systems, platforms, automation, or technical operations.
• 5+ years of experience with SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or production support practices, including service reliability, incident response, CI/CD, and operational readiness.
• 3+ years of experience with Linux, enterprise source control systems, monitoring, scripting, infrastructure as code, configuration management tools such as Ansible, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including coaching, performance feedback, career development.
• Experience developing technical and operational roadmaps mapped over a year.
• BS in computer science or a related technical field preferred, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams responsible for Perforce SRE/DevOps engineering, automation, tooling, and platform reliability.
• Mentor engineers across SRE operations, sprint delivery, Perforce platform support, Linux, Ansible, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and automation.
• Partner with engineering teams, stakeholders, and customers on requirements, incidents, escalations, and platform improvements.
• Manage the engineering response in #help_perforce and coordinate customer-driven work and follow-up items.
• Lead direct reports through resource allocation, coaching, performance feedback, and career development.
• Develop technical and operational roadmaps mapped over a year.

Skills

SRE/DevOps engineering

Platform engineering

Automation

Mentoring/People management

Incident response

CI/CD

Linux

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring

Cloud/hybrid infra

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Ansible

Perforce Helix Core

Jira

Artifactory

Job description

Join us in this role where you will lead enterprise-scale engineering platforms that support game development teams globally. You will collaborate with game teams across the company on popular titles such as FC, Apex, Madden, Battlefield, NHL, Skate, and more.

As part of GDXE, you will report to a Director or other engineering leader, and together we will:

• Lead teams responsible for Perforce SRE/DevOps engineering, automation, tooling, and platform reliability.
• Mentor engineers across SRE operations, sprint delivery, Perforce platform support, Linux, Ansible, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and automation.
• Partner with engineering teams, stakeholders, and customers on requirements, incidents, escalations, and platform improvements.
• Manage the engineering response in #help_perforce and coordinate customer-driven work and follow-up items.
• Lead direct reports through resource allocation, coaching, performance feedback, and career development.

Job qualifications and requirements:

• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise-level software solutions.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise-scale systems, platforms, automation, infrastructure, or technical operations.
• 5+ years of experience with SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or production support practices, including service reliability, incident response, CI/CD, and operational readiness.
• 3+ years of experience with Linux, enterprise source control systems, monitoring, scripting, infrastructure as code, configuration management tools such as Ansible, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including coaching, performance feedback, career development.
• Experience developing technical and operational roadmaps mapped over a year.
• B.S. in computer science or a related technical field preferred, or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have:

• Experience leading projects using Jira, Artifactory, or similar enterprise tools.
• Experience with Perforce Helix Core administration, replication, edge/commit server models, storage, backup/recovery, and operational health monitoring.
• Experience working with onsite/offshore resources across multiple time zones.