Data Engineer – AAA Games – South, UK – Permanent

Job Title: Data Engineer

Job Location: Guildford, UK

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive

Project: AAA Games

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Our client empowers creators to shape the future of gaming and achieve this by developing leading-edge engine features and world-class tools. Their talented team from across the globe is dedicated to building innovative technology and working closely with each other to ship amazing games.

The successful candidate will help build a platform to process petabytes of data into pipelines for user-facing environments and collaboratively compete for the industry-leading data program – all while serving needs of teams on the cutting edge of game development using DevOps methodologies.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering or similar.
• Expert in Python and knowledge of SQL.
• Built and used CI/CD pipelines in the past, Docker experience is essential.
• Write clean and effective code that can be used to scale applications.
• Have experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
• Are comfortable on the command-line and working with servers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain and enhance their core data infrastructure and ETL framework.
• Develop and maintain data sets to support reporting and exploratory analytics.
• Develop and own core tools, frameworks, and their Kubernetes-based platform.
• Assess and recommend available and emerging big data technologies.
• Contribute to post implementation reviews helping to demonstrate success.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Understanding of Java, Scala, C# and other languages.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm and other orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Comfortable using infra-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with adapting purpose-built applications into cloud and on-premise platforms.
• Experience throttling multiple systems to achieve target performance for SLAs.
• Understand the design of cloud-native database such as Snowflake.

COMPANY BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary plus industry leading bonus scheme
• Stock plans
• Private medical insurance & dental care
• Pension scheme and life insurance

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 422!

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