Architect - Enterprise Infrastructure

Role Detail

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. 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.

Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. We’re a world-class community of technologists, innovators, strategists, and orchestrators transforming interactive entertainment. Together, we power the platforms, AI-driven tools, live services, and infrastructure that ensure global scale, secure player experiences, and unlock bold new possibilities.

EA Information Technology (EAIT) powers the technology that connects our global workforce and supports every part of our business, from game development to marketing, publishing, security, and player experience. We create secure, scalable solutions that help teams collaborate and innovate in order to create better experiences for players worldwide.

About the role

You will define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with EA's scalability and security requirements.

You will lead architecture for hybrid cloud platforms, increasing adoption of cloud-native patterns such as microservices, APIs, service mesh, and container-based workloads.

You will serve as EA's subject matter expert for OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes, guiding platform enhancements in operators, networking, storage, and security controls.

You will develop and publish engineering patterns, reusable frameworks, and reference implementations, partnering with engineering teams to embed automation-first approaches and security-by-design.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with EA's scalability and security requirements.
• Lead architecture for hybrid cloud platforms, increasing adoption of cloud-native patterns such as microservices, APIs, service mesh, and container-based workloads.
• Serve as EA's subject matter expert for OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes, guiding platform enhancements in operators, networking, storage, and security controls.
• Develop and publish engineering patterns, reusable frameworks, and reference implementations, partnering with engineering teams to embed automation-first approaches and security-by-design.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering, or software engineering, including designing large-scale, distributed cloud-native systems.
• Experience with OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes platforms, including defining deployment strategies and platform governance for global-scale environments.
• Hands-on coding experience in Go, Java, Python, or comparable languages, and deep expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm, GitOps) and CI/CD frameworks.
• Certifications: RHCA, RHOCP, and Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS), plus experience supporting large-scale consumer or gaming platforms in hybrid cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Platform Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Cloud Native Patterns
• OpenShift
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Helm
• CI/CD Frameworks

Benefits

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COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES
* Ontario
$141,400 - $192,100 CAD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including 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.

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