Hybrid Senior Build Tools Engineer: CI & Build Automation

The Creative Assembly Ltd; Horsham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from Anywhere (annual)

Private medical and dental insurance

Life insurance

Relocation package

Job summary

Creative Assembly in Horsham is seeking a Senior Build Tools Engineer to drive the evolution of multi-project build pipelines, CI reliability, and scalable backend services. You will design, implement and review high‑quality C++/C# code, mentor others, and collaborate with test automation and game teams across the studio.

You will balance hands‑on development with architectural thinking, while operating in a hybrid setup and contributing to the studio's ongoing build and release improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, operating and improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines or DevOps platforms at scale.
• Strong programming ability in C++, plus C# or an equivalent scripting language.
• Deep debugging skills across complex multi-component systems.
• Experience with console automation (PS5/Xbox).
• Experience with online store APIs (e.g. Steam/MS).
• Familiarity with Perforce or similar version control systems in large team environments.
• Familiarity with branching strategies and their application in large-scale, multi-project environments.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and engineering leadership.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with broader architectural thinking.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the evolution of CA’s multi-project build pipelines, including pre- submit, post-submit, scheduled tests, console and PC workflows.
• Define and drive improvements in CI reliability, error detection, logging standards and quality guardrails in CI.
• Strengthen the development and reliability of deployment pipelines that deliver builds to internal teams, QA and external platforms, ensuring consistent and repeatable releases across all target destinations.
• Design, build and maintain backend services such as build storage infrastructure, symbol servers, archiving systems and dashboards, ensuring they scale with studio demand.
• Write and review production-ready code, primarily in C++ and C#, setting expectations for quality, maintainability and testing.
• Join the rotating weekly support responder role to triage build/test issues across all infrastructure channels.
• Establish key metrics and dashboards that surface issues early, track reliability trends, and demonstrate measurable improvement over time.
• Identify bottlenecks in hardware utilisation, storage strategy, CI capacity, and build roadmap to address them.
• Support other engineers, contributing to knowledge sharing, documentation, and improved engineering practices.
• Work with the test automation team to integrate comprehensive quality gates into CI workflows, ensuring fast and actionable feedback for development teams.

Skills

Build systems

C++

C# scripting

Debugging

Console automation

Perforce

CI/CD pipelines

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

PowerShell

Job description

Creative Assembly in Horsham is seeking a Senior Build Tools Engineer to drive the evolution of multi-project build pipelines, CI reliability, and scalable backend services. You will design, implement and review high‑quality C++/C# code, mentor others, and collaborate with test automation and game teams across the studio.

You will balance hands‑on development with architectural thinking, while operating in a hybrid setup and contributing to the studio's ongoing build and release improvements.