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Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.\nSenior SE I / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)\nJob Description\nWe are seeking an accomplished Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)with 12-15 years of experience to lead the reliability, scalability, and performance engineering of our critical infrastructure and production systems. As a Senior SRE, you will play a strategic and technical leadership role - driving reliability practices, mentoring SRE teams, and influencing the adoption of automation, observability, and resilience engineering across the organization.\nYou will act as a technical thought leader and hands-on engineer, collaborating with infrastructure, application, and operations teams to build, automate, and scale reliable systems that support global business operations. This role requires deep expertise in cloud platforms, automation, monitoring, incident management, and system design for large-scale distributed environments.\nRoles & Responsibilities\n1. Reliability Engineering & Automation\nArchitect, implement, and manage resilient, scalable, and highly available infrastructure systems.\n\nLead initiatives to automate manual operations, deployment, and monitoring processes to improve reliability and reduce toil.\n\nDrive the creation of observability solutions and dashboards to proactively detect and remediate potential issues.\n\n2. Incident & Problem Management\nLead critical incident response, ensuring swift mitigation and clear communication to stakeholders.\n\nConduct detailed root cause analysis (RCA) and drive permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence.\n\nImplement and mature incident management frameworks, including runbooks, playbooks, and post-incident reviews.\n\n3. Infrastructure Operations & Performance Optimization\nOversee system performance, capacity planning, and scalability of infrastructure across hybrid and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).\n\nOptimize system resource utilization, latency, and reliability through performance tuning and automation.\n\nWork closely with architecture and platform teams to accommodate growth, change, and modernization initiatives.\n\n4. Leadership & Mentorship\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE teams and cross-functional engineering groups.\n\nPromote an SRE culture across teams - championing principles of reliability, automation, observability, and continuous improvement.\n\nDrive collaboration between development, QA, DevOps, and release teams to embed reliability into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).\n\n5. Service Level Management\nDefine, track, and continuously improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs)and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).\n\nApply the Four Golden Signals of SRE monitoring- Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation- to guide system health and performance strategies.\n\n6. Documentation & Knowledge Sharing\nEstablish and maintain comprehensive documentation of systems, operational procedures, and best practices.\n\nFacilitate learning through technical sessions, blameless postmortems, and cross-team knowledge sharing.\n\n7. Strategic Technology & Continuous Improvement\nContribute to defining the long-term SRE strategy, tooling roadmap, and automation frameworks.\n\nEvaluate and adopt emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance system reliability and efficiency.\n\nPartner with business and technical leaders to ensure alignment of SRE objectives with organizational goals.\n\n8. Security & Compliance\nCollaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure, systems, and operations meet organizational and regulatory standards.\n\nImplement secure configuration baselines, vulnerability remediation, and access control policies.\n\nIntegrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines to ensure DevSecOps alignment.\n\n9. Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Management\nPartner with executive and business stakeholders to align SRE initiatives with enterprise objectives and risk frameworks.\n\nProvide data-driven insights on reliability, capacity, and operational performance to influence strategic decision-making.\n\nRepresent SRE functions in technical governance forums, audits, and architecture reviews to drive reliability-focused outcomes.\n\nQualifications\nEducation:Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.\n\nExperience:12-15 years of total IT experience, with at least 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or large-scale systems engineering.\n\nTechnical Expertise:\nStrong proficiency in Linux/Unix system administrationand internals.\n\nProven experience in cloud platforms- AWS, Azure, or GCP.\n\nAdvanced scripting and automation skills using Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.\n\nHands-on exposure to containerization and orchestrationtechnologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and expertise on service mesh like istio etc\n\nDeep understanding of monitoring and observability stacks(Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, Zabbix, Nagios).\n\nExpertise in configuration management and IaC tools(Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet).\n\nStrong knowledge of networking, load balancing, databases, and distributed systems.\n\nOperational Excellence:\nHands-on experience in incident response, problem management, and capacity planning at enterprise scale.\n\nProven ability to design for reliability, redundancy, and disaster recovery.\n\nSoft Skills:\nExcellent analytical, communication, and leadership abilities.\n\nProven track record of mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams.\n\nStrong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience defining and implementing SRE frameworks or centers of excellencein global organizations.\n\nFamiliarity with REST API development, integration, and database query optimization.\n\nStrong understanding of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.\n\nExperience with AIOps, self-healing systems, or machine learning-driven monitoring.\n\nDemonstrated experience in driving organizational culture change toward reliability and automation.\n\nActive participation in industry forums or open-source contributionsrelated to DevOps or SRE practices.\n\nAbout Electronic Arts\nWe’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.\nWe adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.\nElectronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. 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