Electronic Arts is looking to solve the problem of making its games and services available to all players anytime and anywhere by ensuring high availability of infrastructure, primary services, and studio services.
Requirements
- 3+ years' experience in IT, including coding experience (Python, Go, Ruby)
- 2+ years' experience managing high-volume transactional production environments using database technologies such as RDS Aurora, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra or Mongo
- Experience tuning and optimizing database environments to meet critical uptime requirements
- Experience deploying and optimizing infrastructure through IaC using Terraform, CI/CD, Gitlab or similar technologies
- Experience configuring and managing online backup technologies for their database environment and is familiar with Disaster Recovery processes
- Proficiency with AWS Technologies or other cloud offerings
- Experience with database technologies such as RDS Aurora, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra or Mongo
Responsibilities
- You will implement automation and tooling to achieve higher availability, reliability, scalability and consistency across all aspects of Database life cycle.
- You will support game launches by ensuring Operational Readiness, stress testing and performance optimization of EA’s databases and related infrastructure.
- You will collaborate with Infrastructure and Game Teams during incident situations.
- You will measure and use data to improve environment reliability.
- You will collaborate with other engineers to implement guidelines, methodologies, and documentation.
- You will ensure that proper documentation is developed and maintained regarding Architecture diagrams, configuration details, Operational procedures to help with knowledge sharing.
- You will provide emergency response through on-call rotation and may occasionally work outside usual business hours to support global delivery processes.
Other
- Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Ability to work outside usual business hours to support global delivery processes
- Ability to provide emergency response through on-call rotation
- Adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity
- Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with other engineers
