Devops Build Engineer

Job Description

DevOps Build Engineer (Perforce) - Maxis

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, and storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of the Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but aim to build a world as it could be. Read on to see how you can join our team and dream big.

You will report into a studio Development Director.

Responsibilities:
• Manage Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Pipelines with tools such as Perforce (CI/CD) and monitoring tools like Datadog/Splunk.
• Work towards operational excellence by identifying opportunities to automate away manual processes.
• Write applications to monitor service health, perform log analysis, and automate recovery
• Apply software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Partner with the development team technical director on build engineering to understand team requirements, evaluate options, develop roadmaps and ensure needs are addressed in a complex, multi-partner environment
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support feature launches, live events, and critical-level incident escalations
• Work with a distributed global team within a follow the sun model across worldwide time zones
• Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the team efficiency and platform capabilities
• Analyze incidents in a postmortem process to ensure preventative measures

Qualifications
• 5 years minimum of DevOps experience working with a live service product that features multiple updates and new releases annually
• 3+ years working with Perforce as a version control system
• 3+ years experience with python for automation
• Collaborative: ease of working with different groups both technical and non-technical.
• Well versed in the use and administration of CI/CD frameworks, Jenkins or others
• Experience setting up and deploying a CI/CD environment, 'large-scale' environment. (being a sole or, tech lead in the process)
• Expert competence navigating multiple operating environments, e.g. Windows, Linux, macOS, and gaming consoles
• Enjoy mentoring, teaching, and guiding.
• Passion for automation and workflow efficiency
• Experience with data search, analytics, and monitoring tools (Splunk, Elasticsearch, and their visual options)
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a related field

Bonus
• Passion for quality game delivery
• Experience using Machine Learning to validate workflow artifacts and improve workflow efficiency

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8o8nk-18-218-172-249-42 in your application.