Unreal Engine Games DevOps Engineer — Hybrid (1-Year)

Electronic Arts; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer in Orlando to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems powering large-scale Unreal Engine game services. You will automate builds, deployments, and environments across Dev, Staging, and Production while improving reliability and developer velocity.

You will collaborate with gameplay, backend, and tools teams, implement IaC, monitor systems, and drive KPI-driven improvements.

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 one or more cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with IaC frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with Perforce and/or Git version control workflows.
• Experience building and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of networking, security practices, and environment isolation.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills in a collaborative environment.
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine build tools is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for UE 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 bottlenecks in Unreal Engine workflows.
• Manage version control integrations and release cycle stability.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement in deployment practices and testing strategies.
• Track KPIs like build success rate, environment uptime, and MTTR.
• Promote DevOps best practices and coach team members on automation.
• Foster testing culture and advocate for automated quality practices.

Skills

Senior DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

C++

Container orchestration

Cloud platforms

Unreal Engine

Version control

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Perforce / Git

Grafana / Prometheus

Datadog / CloudWatch

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks an Advanced DevOps & Automation Engineer in Orlando to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems powering large-scale Unreal Engine game services. You will automate builds, deployments, and environments across Dev, Staging, and Production while improving reliability and developer velocity.

You will collaborate with gameplay, backend, and tools teams, implement IaC, monitor systems, and drive KPI-driven improvements.