DRE - Build Engineer
DRE are EA’s continuous integration and build experts. We are a team of over 100, located in
EA studios across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
We pride ourselves on providing automation services to our internal customers - EA's game,
engine, product, and content teams.
We are looking for someone to join the Development and Release Engineering team (DRE) in
Vancouver, Canada or as a remote resource, as a Build Engineer and provide excellent
services to our internal partner development teams.
Key Responsibilities
● Own and implement internal CI/CD improvement initiatives
● Collaborate with cross functional teams to expand and maintain build infrastructure
environments
● Create and maintain automation pipelines along with workflows
● Identify gaps/toil within build & automation workflows and implement automated
scalable, reliable and repeatable solutions
● Monitor and address automated systems issues
Technical Skills
Desired skills:
○ Proficient in object-oriented/scripting languages (e.g C#, Java, Groovy, Python)
○ Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, GitLab CI)
○ Secrets management tools (e.g Vault)
○ Artifact repositories (e.g Artifactory, NPM, NuGet)
○ Source control management tools (e.g Perforce, Git)
○ Data reporting (e.g Splunk, ElasticSearch)
○ Virtualization environments and tools (e.g VMs, vSphere)
○ Cloud platforms (e.g AWS, GCP, Azure)
Nice to haves:
○ Game engine experience (e.g. Unreal, Unity)
○ Mobile app development (e.g iOS, Android)
○ Configuration management tools (e.g Chef, Terraform with Packer)
○ Containerization technologies (e.g Docker)
○ Familiar with best practices around automation security
Ideal Candidate Characteristics
● 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
● Excellent interpersonal/communication skills and a desire to collaborate
● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
● Familiar with agile methodology
● Ability manage tasks and responsibilities
● Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions