Automation Engineer (Gaming Industry)

E-Resourcing is recruiting for an Automation Engineer to work for our Games studio client in Guildford.
The ideal candidate is somebody who is passionate about games and has worked on implementing, managing and maintaining content and code build, deployment and automation systems for modern large scale games and services.

Key Accountabilities:
Maintain and develop continuous integration, build and deployment systems for local and service environments.
Identify new requirements, define and prioritise features then build and implement them as required.
Monitor build status, and collect build related metrics, working with production to encourage timely fixes to issues from the team.
Develop and maintain systems to connect build production with source control and bug tracking.
Work with the IT department and the team to ensure that appropriate hardware resources are available to produce and deploy builds.
Work with QA and developers to manage automated build validation tests and provide build health monitoring and reporting.

Key Success Criteria:
Deployed builds are correct, minimal and complete.
Builds are delivered to the team and service environment in a timely fashion.
Build breakages are tracked and reported.
QA is able to track all fixes within a build allowing them to regress appropriate bugs.
Build health is prominently displayed throughout the office, both during development and post release as updates are rolled out.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential Experience
Demonstrated experience of working in a task automation and build engineering role.
Knowledge of continuous integration systems.
Knowledge of build production and deployment for Microsoft platforms.
Knowledge of Unreal 3 and/or 4 build processes, both code and assets a distinct plus.
Knowledge of code and asset build systems in general (eg Make, MSBuild, Ant, Visual Studio)
Knowledge of programming in Scripting languages and environments such as Python, Powershell etc.

So if you feel you have the necessary skills and experience for the role please email a copy of your CV.