Build and Configuration Engineer

Your role within our Kingdom

As a Build and Configuration Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the systems and tools necessary to have robust and efficient continuous builds for our teams, who build both games and systems for internal use. We are continuously improving our ways of working, and you will take part in setting standards, guide and support developers on how to use our common development infrastructure.

The development teams each own and write their own builds, but need your expertise and help to make sure the tools and systems are used consistently, optimally and keep up as technology evolves. As an expert in build systems, automation, source control, versioning, continuous integration and rapid deployment, you will be their partner in choosing and using the right tool for the right job, working very closely with the development teams and operations, while keeping in mind the big picture of how we do things in other locations across King.

The overall technology stack is common across studios. We envision that all source code ever produced by any team within the Kingdom should be available to anyone with just a simple command. The teams work in an agile development methodology and we value our fast-paced environment and flexible approach. The teams are allocated to different Business Units but belong to a common functional division ? Development. We build our games in different technologies depending on the target platform. For browser games we use Adobe Flash and for mobile games we use C++. For server-side it?s all Java.

Skills to create thrills
?Experience working closely with development teams to design and implement shared build systems - we believe in a ?DevOps? approach and work in a fast-paced, agile environment using Kanban or Scrum techniques
?Experience using build technologies such as Ant, Jenkins, Maven and Gradle, building cross-platform code in Java, C++ and Flash, targeted at Linux backends and Android/iOS apps
?Setting up and running Continuous integration/Delivery systems using Jenkins
?Running automated tests and reporting on their results
?Branching and version control using source control systems such as git and Mercurial
?Planning repository organization and branch scheme
?Setting up monitoring and alerting systems to ensure that any issues in the production environments are identified and resolved as quickly as possible
?Implementing information radiators and consistent notifications on broken builds or tests
?Automated deployment using tools like Chef or Puppet
?Managing and maintaining Linux, Windows & Mac systems
?A desire to experiment, learn and innovate to continuously improve our engineering systems
?A team player who can coach and support teams when setting up and using CI, versioning and build systems

Want to get treated like royalty?

Apply now! All applications must be in English.

The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That?s why we hire all sorts of talent.

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