Torn Banner studios recently launched Chivalry 2, the sequel to our multi-million copy selling original. We are a small independent video game studio of around 50 developers in Toronto and we love creating innovative new experiences that focus on challenge and fun.

Job Description

As an experienced Build Engineer, you will own and drive the development and stability of the build systems and version control at Torn Banner. Using your experience and knowledge to help make improvements for efficiency to both the pipeline but also to automated testing.

Responsibilities:

Work as a technical liaison with development teams to address build issues and improvements
Develop and maintain automation pipelines
Develop robust workflows to deploy changes in a live product environment
Monitor automation systems and proactively respond to breakages
Create and monitor metrics to improve automation systems
Manage virtual infrastructure, including deploying and monitoring VMs
Maintain the product backlog including tasks and their priorities

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience or education in software development, or related discipline
Excellent troubleshooting and debugging abilities
Experience designing and creating automation jobs in CI systems (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity)
Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Powershell, Batch, Python)
Strong knowledge in source-control administration and good practices (e.g. Perforce, Git)
Experience making PKGs for First Party Platforms
Creative, curious, and motivated to grow your technical abilities
Ability to communicate and discuss technical topics with both technical and business audiences
Excellent documentation skills
Strong sense of initiative and ownership
Willingness to work in Toronto is preferred, but remote opportunities are available

Nice To Have:

Experience with OO languages (e.g. Java, C++, C#)
Experience deploying and maintaining virtual infrastructure (e.g. Virtual Machines)
Experience with game engines and the particularities of game development
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. ZABBIX)
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
Experience with secrets management tools (e.g. Hashicorp Vault)
Experience with metrics gathering and visualization tools (e.g. Splunk, Elastic Search, Kibana)
Experience with container orchestration and management tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes)

Benefits & Perks:

Bonus Structure
4.5 weeks paid vacation
Relocation assistance
Flexible schedule
Weekly happy hour
Healthcare & benefits