Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Release Engineer to work for a famous household name, with an excellent salary and benefit package in Liverpool.

The role:

As a successful applicant, you will work under direction of the department Senior Release Engineer and will provide release engineering services to the global development community. The Release Engineer works closely with Development, Quality Assurance, Database Development and IT Systems to promote and maintain continuous build and integration systems.

The individual will be hands on with day-to-day support of the key services actively providing build, packaging and delivery services.

Job Description / Responsibilities:

• Working with development and release leaders maintain established build systems, create reporting, providing status updates and refresh environments for testing using established Release Engineering procedures.
• The person will be expected to translate release engineering process and procedures to host and maintain customized automated build, packaging and delivery systems.
• Assist studios and title leaders in timely debugging of build failures, even in the late evening.
• Consult with studio development leaders and ensure compliance to platforms.
• Develop and maintain build scripts in Perl or other scripting language consistently following SIE's coding standards and in accordance with applicable software development methodology and release processes.
• Support latest build test environments and delivery processes; facilitate/participate troubleshooting issues to root cause.
• Perform pre and post-production submission support.
• Working with Release Engineering leadership to drive continuous improvement. Apply a sense of urgency, commitment and focus on the right priorities providing excellent service in a timely fashion.

Skills:

• Agile/Scrum
• C#
• C++
• Games industry experience
• Perforce
• Software development (Ruby, Python, Java, C)
• Software Development Lifecycle
• SQL

Please apply for further details on this excellent permanent career opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Release Engineer for our International Technology client based in Liverpool.  The successful candidate will be working with developers and release leaders to maintain established build systems, create reporting dashboards, provide status updates and refresh environments for testing using established release procedures.  The salary for this role will be between £25,000 and £43,700 depending upon experience.

The successful candidate will have a Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline.  A minimum of 1 years’ experience in Technical Software Build and Release Engineering.  Advantageous would be practical experience of testing and releasing software within an Agile environment.

Essential Requirements:

• Python, Perl, Powershell
• Experience of SCM tools such as Subversion, Git, Perforce
• Windows/Linux Administration
• Previous working experience in an Agile environment
• MS Office Applications
• Team Foundation Server
• Jenkins
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Motivated and Proactive
• Superb analytical and research skills.

Advantageous Skills and Knowledge:

• Ability to interpret and perform defect root cause analysis on program code
• Database: Oracle, DB2, PL/SQL
• Knowledge of C++/C#
• Reporting skills, and ability to analyse metrics

To be considered for shortlisting please apply by submitting an up to date CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has a brilliant opportunity for a Senior / Principal Developer/Support Engineer who will be pushing the capabilities of the developers that will define the future business direction.  The successful candidate will liaise closely with external stakeholders, guiding them on effective techniques and optimisations.  This is a permanent role and the salary range is £36,000 to £50,000 there is also an extremely generous benefits package working for this large Blue Chip corporation in the heart of London within state of the art modern offices.

The successful candidate will be a strong team player, but  also be able to act independently, professionally and proactively.  You should be quick to learn new skills and be eager to embrace new challenges.   The opportunity is available for travel from time to time.  Therefore candidates must be eligible to work and travel across the EU.

Essential Skills:

• C / C++ with structured programming techniques (min 7 yrs experience)
• 3D Maths
• Graphics Programming with Open GL, DirectX or equivalent
• Excellent Analysis and Problem Solving Skills
• Experience using Performance Analysis Tools
• Must have Excellent Communication Skills in English
• Good Debugging Skills
• Must be capable of adapting to new tools and technologies

Qualifications:

• Degree & Post Grad in Computer Science, Gaming or Computer Graphics
• Assembly Language – Low Level Programming Experience
• Multi-Threaded Programming
• Bilingual or Multilingual

To be considered for shortlisting please apply by submitting an up to date CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has a rare opportunity for a Continuous Integration Engineer who will be responsible for maintaining the continuous integration system, work closely with stakeholders to define requirements and support project teams in the use of the continuous integration system.

The successful candidate will have a degree in computer science or engineering, have a good understanding of continuous delivery and support and promote development testing.   In return you will have the opportunity to work for a large blue chip corporation in the heart of London with state of the art modern offices.

Essential Skills:

•        C# or Java or Python or JavaScript
•        Previous use of continuous integration system Jenkins
•        Version control, i.e. git, Perforce, svn
•        Build scripts, i.e. Apache Ant
•        Test automation system
•        Knowledge of networking

To be considered for shortlisting please apply by submitting an up to date CV.

As we anticipate a large number of applications, apologies if we are not able to personally respond to each application, but we do thank you in advance.