Senior Build Services Engineer - 12+ months - Hybrid (UK)

PlayStation Network; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking a Senior Build Services Engineer to optimize build processes and mentor technical teams. The role involves managing cloud infrastructure, documentation, and ensuring streamlined communication across projects. Candidates should have experience in build engineering, proficiency with DevOps concepts, and strong troubleshooting skills. This position is remote in the United Kingdom, and offers a vibrant work culture with emphasis on diversity.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Flexitime working

Free car parking facilities

On Site Gym

Access to cycle garage and showers

Qualifications

• 3+ years working in an industry build engineering role.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas to varying technical backgrounds.
• Experience managing Cloud infrastructure and DevOps concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Teamcity.
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware and software issues.

Responsibilities

• Mentor team on technical aspects of service.
• Utilize metrics to recommend improvements.
• Provide timely customer-facing reporting.
• Onboard vendors and maintain training plans.
• Assist in service metrics maintenance.
• Keep service and process documentation updated.
• Provide customer support via Jira Service Desk.
• Implement game build creation pipelines.
• Monitor build pipelines for troubleshooting.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

DevOps concepts

Containerization

Virtualization

Networking

Perforce

GIT

Jenkins

Teamcity

PowerShell

Python

C#

C++

Unity

Unreal

Agile methodologies

Scrum

Tools

Jira Service Desk

Job description

United Kingdom, Remote

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Role overview:

We are looking for a Senior Build Services Engineer who will be responsible for creating service strategies, and driving process optimization. You will be partnering with Studios and PSS QA Engineering Services to understand and recommend optimal service solutions for titles.

What you’ll be doing:

• Technical Mentoring. Mentoring team on technical aspects of service, and related best practices.
• Project Optimization. Utilize appropriate metrics to recommend improvements or changes to active services.
• Project Engagement. Provide timely, relevant customer-facing reporting to and communication with title build stakeholders.
• Vendor Management. Onboarding vendors: conducting and maintaining relevant training plans and assign work packages.
• Service Metrics. Assist in the maintenance and advancement of reporting and metrics gathering processes.
• Documentation. Keeping all relevant service and process documentation updated.
• Customer Support. Providing customer support for all aspects of service via Jira Service Desk, in conjunction with support from ALM
• Implementation of build pipelines. Implement agreed game build creation pipelines for titles.
• Monitoring build pipelines. Monitoring and troubleshooting of agreed game build pipeline creation phase for projects.

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years working in an industry build engineering role.
• Ability to effectively articulate complex ideas and concepts to individuals with differing backgrounds and varying degrees of technical experience.
• 1+ years working in an industry build engineering role.
• Ability to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve relevant hardware and software issues.
• Experience managing Cloud infrastructure and with DevOps concepts such as Containerization, Virtualization, Networking, etc.
• Experience with Perforce, GIT, or equivalent SCM tools.
• Experience with Jenkins, Teamcity or equivalent CI/CD tools.
• Experience with PowerShell, Batch, Bash, or equivalent terminal language.
• Experience with Python, Groovy, C#, C++ or equivalent language.
• Experience with game engines such as Unity or Unreal.
• Experience with development methodologies – Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, etc.
• 25 days holiday per year
• Flexitime working (where approved)
• Free car parking facilities
• On Site Gym
• Access to cycle garage and showers

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

First Name *

Last Name *

Email *

Phone

Country *

Phone *

Resume/CV *

Enter manually

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Enter manually

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

LinkedIn Profile

Website

What is your current salary?

What are your salary expectations? *

What is your current notice period? * Select...

Depending upon where you are currently living, it may be necessary for you to relocate if you are appointed to this role. In order that we can ensure that we promptly provide any appropriate relocation support, please confirm the location at which you currently reside. * Select...

If other, please provide.

Are you based in Liverpool? * Select...

Do you have experience with Unreal Engine or Decima? If so, could you please give a brief overview? *

Have you previously worked for Sony? * Select...

How did you hear about this job? * Select...

If Employee Referral, please provide the name of the employee who referred you.

Do you wish to be considered for other roles? Select...

Do you hold the right to work in the UK? * Select...

If Other, please provide additional information regarding your right to work in the UK.

UK Diversity & Inclusion - Voluntary Equal Opportunity Monitoring

Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited (‘SIEE’) is committed to ensuring that all job applicants and members of staff are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Collecting diversity data is intended to help SIEE maintain equal opportunities best practice and identify barriers to workforce equality and diversity. Please read this notification and consent before you decide whether to submit your diversity data in the survey below.

SIEE will treat all survey responses in the strictest confidence, and our personnel with decision-making role in the recruitment process can only see aggregated reports on the results of the survey and cannot allocate these aggregated reports to individual applicants. There is no obligation on you to provide diversity data, SIEE will treat all applicants the same regardless of whether they provide diversity data or not, and any responses to the survey will not affect our decision on your application.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your diversity data based on your consent before its withdrawal.

Please tick this box to confirm that you explicitly consent to providing the diversity data below, including the below sensitive information on your racial or ethnic origin, your sexual orientation and your gender identity, and to SIEE using this data as Select...

How would you describe your gender identity? Select...

How would you describe your nationality and/or ethnicity? Select...

Do you identify as transgender? Select...

How would you describe your sexual orientation? Select...

By checking this box, I agree to allow PlayStation Global to retain my data for future opportunities for employment for up to 730 days after the conclusion of consideration of my current application for employment.

By checking this box, I consent to PlayStation Global collecting, storing, and processing my responses to the demographic data surveys above.