Electronic Arts (EA) · 6 hours ago
Architect - Enterprise Infrastructure
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expElectronic Arts is a leading entertainment company that creates next-level experiences for players and fans worldwide. They are seeking a hands-on Enterprise Architect to define and maintain enterprise architecture standards and lead architecture for hybrid cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and security requirements are met.
PublishingElectronicsSoftwareAppsGamingComputerMobileVideo GamesWeb Development
Responsibilities
Define and maintain EA's enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures and technology roadmaps
Lead architecture for hybrid cloud platforms ensuring understanding to EA's scalability, performance and security requirements
Increase adoption of cloud-native patterns including microservices, APIs, service mesh, event-driven design and container-based workloads
You will be EA's SME for OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes platform architecture, governance and workload patterns
Define deployment strategies supporting global scale for game dev environment
Guide platform enhancements including operators, networking, storage, security controls and developer experience
Develop and publish engineering patterns, reusable frameworks and reference implementations
Contribute to proof-of-concepts and solution prototypes in languages such as Go, Java, or Python
Provide architectural oversight for complex systems ensuring resiliency, observability and operational readiness
Establish standards for IaC using Terraform, Helm, GitOps and CI/CD
Lead modernization of provisioning, configuration and deployment pipelines to ensure consistency, traceability and velocity
Implement automation-first approaches for configuration, compliance and operations
Embed security-by-design across architectures working with EA Security teams
Promote best practices in observability, DevOps, SRE
Partner with engineering teams, studios and platform groups to ensure architectural alignment and technical clarity
Conduct design reviews, mentor engineering teams and provide executive-level architectural guidance
Contribute to EA's long-term technology evolution by evaluating emerging standards, tools and cloud services
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering and software engineering
Expertise with OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes platforms
Hands-on coding experience (Go, Java, Python, or comparable)
Experience designing large-scale, distributed cloud-native systems
Deep experience with IaC (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitOps) and CI/CD frameworks
Hybrid cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure or GCP combined with on-premises environments
Foundation in networking, security models, API architecture and integration frameworks
Experience with service mesh, operator design, API gateways and event-driven architectures
Background in observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) and SRE practices
Experience supporting large-scale consumer or gaming platforms
Certifications: RHCA, RHOCP and Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
Benefits
Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
10 days per year of sick time
Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
Extended health/dental/vision coverage
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Retirement plan to regular full-time employees
Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity
Company
Electronic Arts (EA)
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.2MKey Investors
TCVTrip Hawkins
2025-09-29Private Equity
2025-09-29Acquired
2019-01-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Michael Robinson
SVP EA Digital Platform
Farah Ali
VP and Technology Growth Strategy
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