What are the responsibilities and job description for the Game Client Build Engineer position at Business Integra Inc?
Game Build Engineer (Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer)
Location: Redmond, WA (Remote)
Job Type: W2 Contract
Job Description:
Typical Day in the Role
- Purpose of the Team: In Publishing they have a central group called Publishing services which is tech team. Looking for extra support and to take over a portion of working with partners / infrastructure
- Key projects: Touches a lot of different pieces of technology. Cloud infrastructure and azure and software development. Automation and devops principles in context of working in a group environment.
- Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm:
- 20% meetings
- 40% coding / bug fixing
- 30% ad hoc requests from different people on the team / development partners
- 10% project updates and updating team
Candidate Requirements
- Years of Experience Required: 5-7 overall years of experience in the field.
- Degrees or certifications required: Bachelor's degree required in computer science, software engineering or relevant field preferred
- Best vs. Average:
- Clear indication that they’ve worked in the game industry is a huge plus
- Unreal and Unity Engine in resume would separate someone largely from the others
- Working as a build engineer for software
- Software deployment / build engineering around that
- Experience with perforce is a huge plus
- Performance Indicators:
- Quality of work
- Intention once they are ramped up to give this person cohesive projects
- Deadline based as well
- What are the top required coding languages for this role? What other languages might be considered in lieu of those specified?
- PowerShell, Bash and Python.
- In lieu of those specified – C sharp and C
- Does your team operate in an Agile/Scrum/Waterfall environment?
- Agile
- Will the contractor require or benefit from knowledge of non-MSFT or open-source technologies?
- Yes
- Is there a particular type of environment/industry this contractor should/should not come from?
- Best case scenario they will come from the gaming industry
- Is there an existing code base or will the contractor need to code from scratch?
- Existing code base
- Who will be testing this contractor’s code?
- Will having coding test for interview process
- Their code will be tested from the sponsor
- What is the level of collaboration on this team? Does the team employ paired-programming or test-driven development?
- Very collaborative team
- Yes to paired programming
- Some test driven development but not relevant to what this job would be
Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience
- Experience with managing cloud infrastructure (such as Azure) 5 YOE
- Experience working in a DevOps workflow 5 YOE
- Pipeline automation, infrastructure as code 5 YOE
Summary:
As a breakdown of the sponsor's current day-to-day work, that they are looking to augment with this contractor; The sponsor is responsible for working with our development partners in Xbox Publishing to help them take their game code and turn it into the playable game client. Some of our partners have deep experience in this area and have their own build engineers. Some of our partners do _not_ have build engineers. My role is to figure out their current capacity in this area, then do the work to help them use cloud infrastructure (Azure) to build and deliver their game clients more efficiently and quickly. Many of our partners do not have experience with Azure, so I also perform the function of an infrastructure engineer / architect and help them design their infrastructure for build pipelines as necessary. This takes the form of regular meetings and gap analysis with our partners, so I am aware of the areas they need the most help with. My actual day to day work is broken up between partner meetings, designing / implementing Azure infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, troubleshooting build pipelines, writing new pipelines to build the game client for a project, and writing automation pipelines to take those built game clients and deliver them to the developers working on the title so they can see their code/content changes in the game itself.
Main Functions:
- Creation, Maintenance, and Updates for Game Client build pipelines for the Unreal and Unity game engines
- Management of Cloud (in our case Azure Cloud) infrastructure as it pertains to Game Client build pipelines
- Creating and Maintaining Infrastructure as Code for the Cloud Infrastructure mentioned above
- Creating and Maintaining scripts to automate tasks
Qualifications:
- Needs to demonstrate working knowledge of Game Client builds for Unreal and Unity
- Must have experience working with build pipelines in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery environment
- The candidate must have written build scripts for Game Client builds in Unreal or Unity, or demonstrate their knowledge of game client build pipeline scripts if they don’t have specific experience with either of those game engines.
- Needs to be able to look at existing scripts/code for automation and demonstrate the ability to explain the function of a given script/code
- Needs to be able to write their own scripts and code for automation of tasks
- Needs to demonstrate knowledge and experience using common Infrastructure as Code tools in a production environment: Namely Terraform and Packer
- Must have experience working with Git in a multi-user environment, and must be comfortable with Perforce even if they don’t use it all the time. The candidate must be able to explain the differences between these two systems.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.
- 5-7 years experience required.
Thanks & Regards!
Harpreet Singh
Assistant Manager – Technical Recruitment
Business Integra, Inc.
Cell: 1 (301-223-0519), Office: 301-474-9600 X 300
E: harpreet.singh@biitservices.com
