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Build Engineer -Temporary (Star Wars)

Respawn Entertainment is a AAA video game development studio that aspires to create innovative hit games that leave a lasting impact for gamers worldwide. We are gameplay and player focused, and believe that every discipline plays a crucial part in helping create a great gaming experience. We strive to challenge and exceed expectations; aiming to ensure our players have an amazing experience every time they play our games. We work to create and nurture a family culture where trust and support for one another empower our talented developers to achieve more together. Our games include the critically acclaimed Apex Legends , Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (VR) , and the Titanfall franchise.

We are looking for a Build Engineer who will work closely with the Star Wars Build & Release team that is responsible for maintaining and improving the code release pipeline for our web applications and automated processes. You will manage Continuous Integration, merging/branching, and other automated processes to improve the workflow of our developers.

You will be a part of the Development Release Engineering team or DRE which is EA's continuous integration and build experts. We are located in EA studios across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

DRE prides themselves on providing superior automation services to our internal customers - EA's game, engine, product, and content teams. Our services include Build & Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Metrics Reporting, and Virtual Infrastructure Management. Learn more about us here.

**This is a 12-mos. temporary role. Relocation not available**

What you’ll do...

• Work as a technical liaison with development teams to address build issues and improvements
• Implement and maintain automation pipelines in our CI system (Jenkins)
• Work with our internal customers on designing, prototyping and implementing new automated workflows
• Monitor automation systems and proactively respond to breakages
• Monitor and analyze metrics to optimize automation systems
• Manage virtual infrastructure, including deploying and monitoring VMs
• Maintain the product backlog including tasks and their priorities
• Implement game preservation / archival tasks when applicable

Ideally, you’ll have...

• Experience or education in software development, or related discipline
• Excellent understanding of debugging best practices
• Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation jobs in CI systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Experience with OO languages (e.g. C#, C++, Java)
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Groovy, Python, Powershell, Batch)
• Experience with source-control administration (e.g. Perforce, Git)
• Results oriented and analytical, with a customer and business focus.
• Innovative, curious, and motivated to grow your technical abilities.
• Strong teamwork skills, but also the ability to take ownership and work independently
• Ability to communicate and discuss technical topics with both technical and business audiences.
• Excellent documentation skills

Other qualities we look for...

• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience deploying and maintaining virtual infrastructure (e.g. Virtual Machines)
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. ZABBIX)
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
• Experience with secrets management tools (e.g. Hashicorp Vault)
• Experience with metrics gathering and visualization tools (e.g. Splunk, Elastic Search, Kibana)
• Experience with container orchestration and management tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes)