Senior Software Engineer

Company: Aquent
Location: Redmond
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

The person will be responsible for supporting, troubleshooting, and improving the build pipelines for GamingStudios game projects to ensure build stability. They will also create and monitor alerts based on observability data from the pipelines. Specifically, this role will be over night to ensure support for our global partners.
Responsibilities:

• Execute day-to-day tasks to support the operations of the CI/CD pipelines of AAA games using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Perforce.
  
• Perform routine maintenance such as updating auth tokens for services.
  
• Triage and resolve external partner issues.
  
• Mitigate issues blocking automation tasks from succeeding.
  
• Monitor and create alerts based on data from the build system.
  
• Drive data-backed improvements by identifying areas of improvement and recommending changes.
  
• Monitor and analyze metrics, traces, and logs across all CI/CD systems.
  
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.
  
• Combine historical data and upcoming needs to ensure CI/CD capacity.
  
• Design and implement scripts or similar automation to streamline operations.
  
  Minimum Qualifications & Skills:
  
  
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working hands-on in DevOps or CI/CD tools, like Jenkins.
  
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, implementing, and editing scripts to streamline manual operations using languages like PowerShell or Python in a medium or large-scale codebase.
  
• Minimum of 3 years of experience implementing data solutions to measure and monitor KPIs in technologies like SQL or Azure Data Lake.
  
• Experience using data and observability solutions to monitor KPIs for CI/CD infrastructure.
  
• Experience with Perforce source control system.
  
• Knowledge of software development best practices, including agile methodologies and continuous integration and deployment.
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to conduct root cause analysis of critical problems.
  
• Outstanding communication and writing skills, including the ability to ask questions or share information with clarity and brevity in a team-oriented environment.
  
• Experience with Jira work item tracking.
  
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  
  Nice to Haves:
  
  
• Experience working with Unreal Engine.
  
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud environments.
  
• C++ and/or C# proficiency.
  
  The target hiring compensation range for this role is $55.12 to $61.25 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
  About Aquent Talent:
  Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.
  Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
  Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
  Client Description
  Our client is a large technology company based in Redmond, Washington with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. They develop computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. This company enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge.
  Working here, you will be part of a company that values:
  Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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