Release Engineer

The Release Engineer is a key part of the Studio Operations team. Primary responsibilities include creating, testing, and delivering high quality builds to be published both by internal teams and external partners; contributing to the creation and extension of team processes; documenting builds created and other tasks performed; and clearly communicating results to a variety of recipients. The position will be responsible for all shared continuous integration infrastructure for PopCap's game studio with a particular focus on automated builds and deployment. Extensive cross-group interaction is required including working with developers, testers, leads, and managers, as well as other groups of individuals who will often have conflicting goals, schedules, and demands. The position will be required to identify, empower, and evangelize best practices across the studio.
Responsibilities:

• Create, test, and release and maintain multiple game builds each week for PopCap's production social games
• Coordinate releases to meet teams' needs, business priorities and the overall release schedule
• Update deployment scripts and maintain application configurations as needed
• Create, test, and maintain CI infrastructure
• Manage and maintain documentation of infrastructure requirements, abilities, and usage
• Minimize build and deployment related downtime by ensuring build quality and designing robust practices and validation
• Update deployment scripts and maintain application configurations as needed
• Communicate and document status of multiple simultaneous projects
• Identify and escalate critical issues
• Investigate, document, and repair game build and deployment pipeline issues
• Contribute strong ideas to and feedback about the Release Management team's processes and systems
• Provide feedback on and oversight of source code management standards, continuous integration procedures, unit and smoke tests, and deployment pipelines
• Additional special projects when assigned

Required Skills:

• 2 years experience in configuration management or a CI-focused position
• 5 years industry experience, online services or casual games preferred
• Demonstrated communication skills and the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical people
• Strong familiarity with source code management; Perforce preferred
• Strong familiarity with multiple operating systems; preferred are Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, OS X 10.5
• Highly organized and able to meet strict deadlines with minimal supervision
• Able to switch tasks fluidly in response to rapidly changing requirements
• Detail-oriented, flexible, adaptable, and a quick learner
• Self-motivated and self-driven with the discipline to complete tasks independently
• Familiarity with Perl and C preferred

Education and/or Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

PopCap Games (www.popcap.com) is the worldwide leader in casual video games: fun, easy-to-learn, captivating games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106 and are available anytime, anywhere. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of more than 500 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, B.C., Dublin, Seoul, and Shanghai. Its games have been downloaded over 1.5 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its flagship title, Bejeweled, has sold more than 50 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are played on the Web, social platforms, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod, iPhone, iPad and more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox and DS), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap has been one of the most innovative companies in the video game industry since its inception a decade ago. Pioneering new game mechanics, sales models, and platforms ranging from mobile devices to online and location-based games of chance, PopCap is the only video game provider in the world with leading market share across the entire spectrum.