Senior DevOps Engineer — CI/CD for Large-Scale Game Builds

Electronic Arts; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Game Developer Experience (GDX) team in a hybrid Vancouver role. You will build and scale the CI platform, improve reliability, and automate infrastructure, partnering with studios to optimize workflows across EA titles.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering, cloud experience, and strong scripting skills. Hybrid schedule with collaboration across studios and teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Software Engineer with increasing responsibilities.
• Experience with large-scale build/release systems or developer platforms (AAA games or DevOps).
• Experience with CI/CD principles and workflows.
• Proficiency in C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Strong problem-solving and hybrid-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab).
• Write automation in C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
• Troubleshoot build failures and improve performance.
• Support Git-based workflows (Perforce is a plus).
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, or Chef.
• Partner to improve reliability, observability, and developer workflows.
• Contribute to incident response and continuous system improvements.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

C#

PowerShell

Bash

Cloud platforms

IaC/configuration mgmt

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Game Developer Experience (GDX) team in a hybrid Vancouver role. You will build and scale the CI platform, improve reliability, and automate infrastructure, partnering with studios to optimize workflows across EA titles.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering, cloud experience, and strong scripting skills. Hybrid schedule with collaboration across studios and teams.