Build & Infrastructure Lead [Snowdrop]
- Full-time
- Contract: Permanent
- Work flexibility: Office-based
Company Description
Massive Entertainment is a world-renowned AAA game development studio located in Malmö, Sweden, and a proud part of the Ubisoft family. Our diverse and talented team of over 700 professional's hails from more than 50 countries, all driven by a shared passion for crafting memorable gaming experiences.
At Massive, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology, currently leading projects such as Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 while continuously working on our live games Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Star Wars Outlaws, and Tom Clancy’s The Division 2.
We're also at the forefront of tech innovation, developing our proprietary Snowdrop engine, which powers many of Ubisoft’s flagship titles, and contributing to Ubisoft Connect, Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform.
Join us, and you'll have the opportunity to do what you love while shaping the future of interactive entertainment.
Job Description
Snowdrop is a powerful game engine that enables Ubisoft content creators to set their creative minds free. Fast and flexible, Snowdrop gives developers innovative tools designed from the ground up for creating the unknown. Snowdrop provides the perfect canvas for game developers to paint the games of the future.
As Build & Infrastructure Lead at Massive, you will work with a team of about 7 motivated engineers and improve the adaptation of tooling for continuous integration across many game projects. You will be a key figure in enabling game productions all over the world to both leverage existing technology and share their own developments as effortlessly as possible.
As the lead you will also handle staff management of your direct reports within the team, i.e. recurring performance feedback, salary reviews, and facilitation of career planning. You encourage innovation from concept through to deployment and you appreciate adopting and leveraging new technologies. You will work closely with a Project Coordinator, a Product Owner, and a Build & Infrastructure Architect, in a team that values their strong feedback culture.
What you’ll do
- Creating & maintaining environment of collaboration, communication, trust, responsibility, and creativity
- Managing growth/development/career paths/training of team members, among others through regular one-on-one meetings
- Facilitating recruitment, onboarding, and staff planning
- Conducting performance reviews
- Optimizing the developer workflow by making your DevOps and infrastructure expertise available to team members and others
- Staying aware of and adapting to real world constraints
- Participating in development through technical advisory and pair programming
Qualifications
What you’ll bring
We are looking for a well-organized senior engineer who find the growth of the team important. You can review and give feedback in a clear and constructive manner, and it is beneficial if you know how to handle situations such as salary review, as well as topics like personal and professional development. You are comfortable working in an international environment, have good communication skills in English, and are aligned with our core values. We would also like to see that you have the following skills and experiences:
- Demonstrated leadership or managerial experience or strong potential
- Software development background and a solid interest in learning more
- Professional Python experience
- Version control systems and CI/CD pipelines (Perforce or gitlab)
- Service deployments using tools like Docker, Ansible and Salt
- Monitoring and alerting using ELK, Grafana, Prometheus or others
Additional Information
Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!
You can also find a summary of the Massive Job Perks here.
Questions? We're more than happy to answer them! Please contact Anton Brunzell, Talent Acquisition Partner for this position
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