Job Description

Your Mission

The Activision Central Technology (CT) team is seeking a Tools Programmer with a support focus on Continuous Integration and associated areas (such as backing infrastructure). This role involves working for the core CT but in direct support of the Activision game studios and their use of

CT's bespoke continuous integration and deployment system, which is pivotal to studios in the development of Call of Duty.

Responsibilities:

Serve as CI/CD partner for Activision game studios
Help identify and fix blocking issues with CI builds and the supporting infrastructure
Develop good understanding of studio workflows, and help guiding studios towards solutions
Identify opportunities for improvements both on studio side and in core system
Be a first point of contact to answer questions from studios around CI/CD
Maintain intimate knowledge of our bespoke CI/CD system and supporting data center and cloud infrastructure
Work with CI/CD core team to help develop (studio-focused) feature and workflow improvements

Player Profile

5+ years industry experience, ideally across tools/build/devops systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Strong Python, C, and C++ skills
Robust generalist programming and systems architecture skills
Strong and prompt communication skills; able to collaborate with colleagues both locally and around the world
Strong troubleshooting skills
Experience with: containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), databases and key-value stores (SQL, Redis), SCMs (Perforce, git), operating systems (Windows, Linux), build deployment systems (Jenkins, SN-DBS, etc)

Valid through: 4/3/2021

About Activision Blizzard

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham. The company originally concentrated on the creation of game ports for other studios' games before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In 1994, the company became Chaos Studios, Inc., and eventually Blizzard Entertainment after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard released Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Since then, Blizzard Entertainment has created several Warcraft sequels, including highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft in 2004, as well as three other multi-million selling video game franchises: Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch. Their most recent projects include the expansion for Diablo III, Reaper of Souls, the online collectible card game Hearthstone, the multiplayer online battle arena Heroes of the Storm, the third and final expansion for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Legacy of the Void, the multiplayer first-person hero shooter Overwatch, and the eighth expansion for World of Warcraft, Shadowlands. The games are operated through online gaming service Battle.net.

Total Jobs:

Total Experts:

Average Pay:

$128,797

Total value of jobs:

$10,175,000

% Masters:

30%