Cloud Engineer, Server Team at Electronic Arts Pty Ltd (Firemonkeys) (Docklands, Australia)

The Role

As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be an integral member of the Server Team which builds and maintains the Firemonkey's back-end game services.

 Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and evolve scalable server systems to support popular game titles


• Ensure high quality of network play experience and maximize availability


• Review and provide constructive feedback for code reviews


• Provide mentorship/guidance to game team engineers utilizing the server framework


• Working under direction from the Technical Director on your project


• Working within a small, motivated team and communicating effectively within that team as well as outwardly with game teams


• Supporting production infrastructure through a rostered on-call rotation

About You

We are looking for people who want to be pushed, who want to bring the next generation of exciting, engaging games to our players. We are looking for emotionally intelligent people with a can-do attitude.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Collaborative, team-focused mindset


• Extensive Linux administration experience


• Database (NoSQL/SQL) administration experience


• Strong networking, DNS skillset


• Big public cloud experience (AWS, GCP)


• Experience with configuration management solutions


• Experience building scalable, secure, and highly reliable production environments

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Strong Docker/Kubernetes skillset


• Experience supporting high-volume, 24/7 mission-critical environments


• Participating in an on-call roster


• Strong understanding of the principles and implementation of infrastructure as code / immutable infrastructure


• Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer


• CI/CD, an 'automate everything' approach


• Jenkins


• GitLab


• Performance tuning, metrics systems, dashboarding


• Experience with php-fpm, nginx, Golang valuable

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