Senior DevOps Engineer for Unreal Engine Games

EA Sports; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems for Unreal Engine game development at Tiburon Studios in Orlando. You will automate CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and release governance, collaborating across gameplay, backend, and tools teams to improve velocity and reliability.

This role emphasizes automation, testing culture, and strong debugging in a hybrid onsite setting in Orlando, FL.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development or DevOps experience.
• 5+ years CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• 3+ years C++ programming.
• 3+ years automation for large-scale or live-service environments.
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• IaC frameworks: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Perforce and/or Git version control workflows.
• Experience building monitoring/alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Networking, security concepts, and environment isolation.
• Excellent debugging and communication in a collaborative setting.
• Passion for automation and scalable, reliable systems.
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine build/development tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine game clients and backend services.
• Automate build, deployment, and environment management across Dev, Staging, Production.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues impacting build stability and uptime.
• Collaborate with gameplay, backend, and tools engineers to remove bottlenecks in Unreal Engine workflows.
• Manage version control integrations and release strategies.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting for reliability.
• Drive deployment practices, testing automation, and rollback strategies.
• Define and track engineering KPIs (build success rate, MTTR).
• Promote DevOps best practices and testing culture across the studio.

Skills

DevOps experience

CI/CD pipelines

C++ programming

Automation

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Docker/Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation

Version control (Perforce/Git)

Monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus)

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unreal Build Tool

Unreal Automation Tool

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Perforce

Git

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems for Unreal Engine game development at Tiburon Studios in Orlando. You will automate CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and release governance, collaborating across gameplay, backend, and tools teams to improve velocity and reliability.

This role emphasizes automation, testing culture, and strong debugging in a hybrid onsite setting in Orlando, FL.