Build Engineer - Contract

Playground Games Limited; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in gaming is seeking a Build Engineer to join their innovative Fable team. This exciting contract role involves designing and maintaining automated processes crucial for game delivery. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams, ensuring the development process is streamlined and efficient. With a hybrid work model, this position offers flexibility while working on a beloved franchise. This is a unique opportunity to shape an AAA title from its early stages, providing new challenges for experienced developers passionate about gaming and technology.

Qualifications

• Experience with scripting languages and CI systems is essential.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime of critical Continuous Integration pipelines.
• Automate commonly used workflow patterns for the team.
• Support developers in best practices for Version Control.

Skills

Powershell

Continuous Integration

TeamCity

Perforce

Infrastructure-as-code

C#

Azure

Problem-solving

Communication

Passion for games

Job description

Playground Games is looking for a Build Engineer to join our Fable team on a contract basis.

About us:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.

About the role:

As a Build Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated processes which form a critical part of the delivery of our game and tools. 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.

Your passion for working with cutting edge hardware and software will see you managing and developing a large build server installation in an automated and efficient manner and working to streamline the development process.

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:

• Ensuring uptime of critical Continuous Integration pipelines
• Analysing and reporting Pipeline stability and paths to improvement
• Supporting developers in best-practices for Version Control usage
• Automating commonly used workflow patterns to be used by the entire team
• Keeping up to date with developments in scripting languages and Build systems

What you’ll bring:

• Experience with one or more scripting languages such as Powershell
• Experience of continuous integration systems such as TeamCity
• Knowledge of source control systems such as Perforce
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-code such as Powershell DSC advantageous
• Knowledge of C# would be advantageous
• Experience working with Azure would be advantageous
• Good problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for games

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team and project at an early stage, giving you the rare chance to shape the future of an exciting, large-scale AAA title from the outset. It will provide exciting new challenges for any experienced developer looking to further their career and create world-class games.

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.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

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