Senior Build Services Engineer - 18 Months

PlayStation Network; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking a Senior Build Services Engineer in Liverpool for a temporary 18-month engagement. This hybrid role involves mentoring teams, optimizing projects, vendor management, and service support. Candidates should have 3+ years in build engineering and experience with Cloud infrastructure and CI/CD tools. The role offers flexibility and numerous employee benefits, including 25 days holiday and gym access.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Flexitime working

Free car parking

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 diverse audiences.
• Experience managing Cloud infrastructure and DevOps concepts.

Responsibilities

• Mentoring the team on technical aspects and best practices.
• Utilizing metrics to recommend service improvements.
• Providing reporting to build stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

DevOps concepts

Technical mentoring

Vendor management

Documentation skills

Tools

Perforce

GIT

Jenkins

TeamCity

Python

C#

C++

Unity

Unreal

Job description

United Kingdom, Liverpool

Overview

Please note: This is a hybrid role in our Liverpool office (ideally 2-3 per week), with flexibility.

Role overview: This position is for a temporary engagement through our staffing partner DZConneX (Yoh Services). The anticipated duration of this engagement is 18 months.

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 the team on technical aspects of service, and related best practices.
• Project optimization: utilizing 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 assigning work packages.
• Service metrics: assisting 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: implementing agreed game build creation pipelines for titles.
• Monitoring build pipelines: monitoring and troubleshooting of the 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

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