DevOps/Build Engineer

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Join the award-winning team that created God of War

Santa Monica Studio is seeking a DevOps/Build Engineer for the development of a new unannounced title!

You’re into technology – learning it, building it, teaching it.  You’re someone who thrives on infrastructure and builds, making things happen for the team, making their work lives more efficient and easier, which allows them to perform at their peak.

You’re talented, really talented, and motivated, with tons of initiative. You get things done – and we leave you alone to do them. Sound interesting? Give us a shout!

Responsibilities

• Support complex existing architecture such as Perforce, Jenkins, and proprietary in-house web services
• Build and maintain complex build pipelines working with build tools like MSBuild and Apache Ant
• Assist in configuring and deploying various open source and proprietary services on Linux and Windows, such as: Nginx, Postgres, Traefik, Datadog, Aspera, Sentry, as well as new services to support the development team
• Provide support for build releases and patching, build deployment tool suite, code integration utilities, pre-commit testing utilities, and packaging pipeline
• Identify and optimize bottlenecks/inefficiencies in our CI/CD build automation systems
• Partner closely with our IT team to ensure a broad understanding of approaches and solutions
• Interface and assist in supporting the studio; investigate complex problems and provide direct solutions
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional scripts and code
• Implement and maintain effective reporting systems to facilitate team needs
• Support end users with common game industry software such as Maya and Microsoft Visual Studio

Requirements

• Industry experience working on or shipping AAA titles
• Strong Windows and Linux System Administration skills 
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments, supporting on-prem systems in conjunction with AWS services including RDS, ECS, and Cloudfront
• Advanced knowledge of Jenkins, Perforce, and Python
• Proficient in the following: Git, REST APIs, Docker (particularly with Windows Containers), Terraform, PowerShell, Puppet, automated testing structures and processes, build and/or content processing pipelines
• Familiarity with compiling C++ code
• Excellent problem-solving skills, enthusiasm, and initiative
• Personable: gets along well with everyone; has “I can help” attitude
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Commitment to code quality, documentation, and sound testing procedures

Preferred Experience

• Skill and experience in building, deploying, and running Windows-based Docker containers (Windows Containers on Windows)
• Configuration management and administration of Windows machines with Puppet
• Advanced Windows Server administration skills, including the operation of Hyper-V hypervisors
• Experience developing applications to run on Windows in C# or Python, using GUI technology such as Blazor and Qt

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