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Full Build Engineer

Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 750 talented people, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.

We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous , Planet Coaster , Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Zoo . We are continuing to grow our team to support our existing portfolio and an exciting and ambitious future roadmap, which includes the development of both own-IP titles and licensed-IP titles. Our IP-license partners include Universal (Jurassic World), Formula 1 and Games Workshop (Warhammer).We are also growing our team to continue the expansion of Frontier Foundry, our publishing label for games developed by carefully selected partner studios.

We have a modern spacious studio located on the Cambridge Science Park in the heart of the Cambridge tech hub. For those who wish to relocate to the Cambridge area and work either entirely in the studio or flexibly between the studio and home, we can provide generous financial and practical support to facilitate your move. We are also able to offer remote working for those who would prefer to work almost exclusively from home or who are unable to relocate. We can discuss your preferences with you during the recruitment process.

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.

About You

• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders from different teams across the company
• Willingness to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines
• 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.

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.
• 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 video games.

We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.

Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.

We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.