Build Engineer (All Levels) - Contract

Playground Games Limited; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a premier Xbox Game Studio as a Build Engineer, where you'll design and maintain build server pipelines for AAA titles. This contract role offers a chance to work with a talented team on the award-winning Forza Horizon franchise. You'll streamline development processes, ensuring reliability and efficiency in automated content and code builds. With a hybrid work model and a focus on collaboration, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to world-class games while enjoying a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with continuous integration systems and pipeline maintenance.
• Knowledge of scripting and source control systems is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain continuous integration build pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure content is built correctly and promptly.

Skills

Continuous Integration

TeamCity

PowerShell

Perforce

C#/Java

Configurations as Code

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Communication

Passion for games

Job description

Playground Games is looking to grow their world-class Forza team with a talented Build Engineer at any level of experience on a contract basis.

The Build Engineer is able to design, develop and maintain the build server pipelines and infrastructure required to deliver a AAA title.

About us:

As a premier first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and most of all fun. We are looking to expand our diverse team as we continue driving forward our BAFTA award-winning Forza Horizon franchise.

About the role:

The role will have you expanding, managing and maintaining continuous integration build pipelines within a large build server installation in an automated and efficient manner. Your aim is to streamline the development process across the studio.

Working within a team of highly skilled developers, you will be responsible for ensuring that automated content and code builds remain reliable and efficient and are adapted to suit the needs of the AAA title. You will use telemetry, scripting, pipeline architecture and your knowledge of the latest and most useful trends in the industry to do this. Engineers with a strong desire to provide excellent customer service are ideal for this role. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, so your ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively is vital. You are highly motivated and approachable, with a strong desire to ensure the development process is the best it can be.

This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.

What you’ll do:

• Report to engineering leadership on the success/failure rate of our pipelines and infrastructure, suggesting actions to improve overall stability
• Collaborate with content, engineering and QA disciplines to design and maintain pipelines to ensure content is built correctly and available promptly
• Automate the building, testing and delivery of content to internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain and improve our continuous integration processes and custom build farm

What you’ll bring:

• Experience of writing and maintaining pipelines for continuous integration systems such as TeamCity
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell
• Knowledge of source control systems such as Perforce
• Ability to read, understand and maintain object-oriented code (e.g. C#/Java)
• Experience of using and writing Configurations as Code such as Kotlin would be advantageous

Desirable Skills:

• Problem-solving
• Attention to detail
• Communication and presentation
• A passion for games

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on [e-mail]