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Build Engineer (DevOps) - Unannounced Game

Are you a Build Engineer or DevOps Engineer who has worked in teams building games in Unreal Engine?
Do you want to work on a brand-new game with a hugely popular IP?

As a Build Engineer on this unannounced open world survival game being developed in UE5, you will be a key point of communication across the whole development team.
You will create & maintain solutions & automation that streamline the development process and use your knowledge and experience of Unreal Engine to best serve the pipeline.

This is a hugely impactful role in the team where you will build bespoke solutions to increase efficiency and communication across the development team as you work to create Jagex’s next Forever Game.

What you'll be doing:

• Build, optimise & maintain cloud-based CI/CD infrastructure.
• Streamline current CI/CD pipelines & enhance automation for an ongoing live service.
• Develop & sustain glue code to integrate CI/CD pipelines with productivity tools, such as Slack and Shotgrid for increased visibility across the team.
• Provide strategic guidance to the development team on optimal branching and build strategies to best support continuous delivery of new features and bug fixes.
• Stay up to date with UE5 build systems and practices, ensuring you and the team are aligned with industry standards.
• Communicate cross-functionally across the development team to ensure you are up to date with their needs and you are effectively prioritising to meet the needs of the team and the project.

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience with build pipelines, CI/CD and infrastructure for video games.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in games studios creating games using Unreal Engine and supporting the specific needs of those working with Unreal Pipelines.
• Proficient in the use of CI/CD software platforms such as Teamcity, Perforce, Jenkins or similar.
• High proficiency with at least one high-level programming language such as C#, C++, Python or similar.
• Demonstrable experience of communicating and documenting workflows for ease of access & sharing knowledge and best practice.
  

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.
If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.
Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.