Senior Build Engineer
Purpose of the role
We are seeking a new senior addition to the growing Build Engineering Team! As a member of the Build Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to support all of the game teams at Frontier, through the use of our continuous integration and deployment system. You will help to monitor stability, performance, and quality, working with different teams across the company to improve all of these areas, in a faced pace and ever changing environment.
Additionally you will help us improve, adapt and innovate our build/packaging and publish process, further pushing our goal of using the continuous integration and deployment system to improve stability, performance, and quality in all of our games.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with our existing continuous integration and deployment system to ensure that functioning, recent builds of our games and various tools are available to those who require them, and that development progress isn’t blocked by broken builds
- Monitor the continuous integration and deployment system to ensure a high standard of build stability, performance and quality is supported on all projects
- Identify areas within the continuous integration and deployment system which we can improve, adapt and innovate allowing us to improving all aspects of the build/packaging and publish process and systems
- Supporting the teams through the process of creating Release Candidates and helping to resolve issues as quickly as possible
- Ensuring that the build/package and publish process is as fast and hassle-free as possible for all of our teams
- Support and mentor junior and full engineers, helping them to develop their skills as Build Engineers.
About you
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders from different teams across the company
- Willingness to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines
- Able to determine process improvements, best practices, and develop new processes.
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback in order to strive for continuous improvement
- Good at managing competing demands for your time
- Able to work with the team to support yourself and others in high pressure situations & a fast changing environment.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Essential:
- A degree in Computer Science or Computing, or equivalent
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment systems such as TeamCity, Buildbot, Jenkins, CruiseControl
- Experience working with large codebases across multiple platforms
- Knowledge of version control systems (preferably SVN)
- Recent experience with scripting languages preferably Python or Lua
- Demonstrated ability to lead others
- Desirable:
- Knowledge of C++ and/or C#
- Experience with tool chains such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Xcode, CLANG, GCC for building applications targeting Windows, Mac OS X, Console and Mobile
- Knowledge of build systems such as Jam, NMake or CMake
- Passion for gaming and a desire to help create great games.