Build Release Engineer

Tential Solutions; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tential Solutions seeks a Build Systems Engineer to migrate, optimize, and automate production game build pipelines. You will focus on moving Horde and Jenkins workloads to cloud platforms, improving uptime and efficiency across studios.

The role requires strong scripting in Python or C#, plus IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet, and solid Windows/Linux troubleshooting skills.

Qualifications

• Production level build systems experience required.
• Experience migrating pipelines to cloud infra with high uptime.
• CI/CD, Agile, and DevOps practices in software/game pipelines.
• Proficient scripting/automation: Python, C#, or similar.
• Terraform/Ansible/Puppet for IaC and config mgmt.
• Perforce integration with build systems.
• Windows and Linux OS troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Guide migration of studio build pipelines to cloud environments.
• Maintain and optimize Horde and Jenkins deployments.
• Develop build automation scripts and reusable components.
• Integrate services, plugins, and tools into CI/CD workflows.
• Support observability and monitor cloud performance metrics.
• Create documentation and promote CI/CD best practices.
• Collaborate with Perforce specialists for source control reliability.
• Provide technical support to internal build teams.

Skills

CI/CD

DevOps

Python

C#

Unreal Engine

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Perforce

AWS

Linux

Windows

Tools

Jenkins

Unreal Engine Horde

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Perforce

Job description

Build Systems Engineer

Our client, a leader in the interactive gaming space, is seeking a Build Systems Engineer with experience running production game development pipelines in the cloud to migrate, support, and optimize standardized build environments across both Unreal Engine’s Horde and Jenkins. In this role, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our build pipelines by automating workflows, managing continuous integration pipelines, and monitoring system performance. A primary objective will be leading and supporting the migration of existing build pipelines to cloud infrastructure, directly focusing on maximizing service uptime and delivering measurable performance improvements over our legacy on-premise instances.

What You Will Do

• Guide the migration of studio build pipelines to cloud environments, ensuring cloud services meet or exceed the reliability and performance of existing on-premise instances.
• Maintain and optimize existing build systems, focusing on both Unreal Horde and Jenkins for operational performance and stability.
• Contribute to standardization across Horde and Jenkins deployments while accommodating the functional requirements of diverse game teams.
• Develop build automation scripts and maintain reusable pipeline components.
• Assist in integrating related services, plugins, and automation tools into CI/CD workflows.
• Support observability solutions to monitor build ecosystems and track cloud service performance metrics.
• Create clear documentation and promote build automation and CI/CD best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with Perforce specialists to ensure reliable source control integration.
• Provide technical support, guidance, and troubleshooting assistance to internal development and build teams.

Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit

• Practical experience running and maintaining Production level build systems supporting game development pipelines..
• Hands-on experience migrating existing build pipelines to cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a track record of maintaining high uptime and performance.
• Hands-on experience applying CI/CD, Agile, and DevOps methodologies within software or game development pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Python, C#, or similar.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible) to manage compute capacity and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (such as Puppet) for maintaining existing build machines and services.
• Solid OS troubleshooting skills across both Windows and Linux environments.
• Strong problem-solving ability to isolate and resolve build pipeline failures quickly.
• Clear communication and collaborative skills when working cross-functionally with engineers, studios, and external stakeholders.
• Commitment to good documentation habits and continuous learning in CI/CD and cloud technology space.

Here Are Some Details Of The Role

Build Engineer – 6 month contract

• Establish Horde+Jenkins Build Pipeline frameworks in AWS.
• Deliver PoC Build Pipeline environments for target studios .
• Increase reliability of environments to target eventual Production level support (monitoring/alerting, observability, analytics, etc).
• Optimize environments to target cost/performance gains (ie. auto-scaling, reduced network/storage I/O, etc).

Role snapshot

T2 needs a hands-on Build Engineer with deep Jenkins, AWS and Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally from game development, to help move studio build pipelines from data centers to AWS.