Automation Platform Engineer

In this role you will shape the automation platform at the heart of Jagex’s Delivery Engineering. You’ll create and evolve shared testing and development tooling used by engineering teams to boost speed and consistency. You’ll embed with teams to implement white and black box testing across functional and non-functional areas, and you’ll advance automation practices with modern tooling. This is a chance to influence how software is built and measured across the organization, improving quality and efficiency at scale.

• Private Healthcare (incl. Dental Plan)
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours

• Build and scale automation capabilities within the central Delivery Engineering team to empower engineering squads
• Deliver automated development and test harnesses across the software development lifecycle
• Embed with engineering teams to build white and black box testing frameworks across functional and non-functional areas
• Upgrade automation execution frameworks and introduce modern tooling
• Champion modern automation practices and expose teams to new automation capabilities
• Understand codebases, flows and services to ensure automation fits how components interact
• Provide reporting and visualization of software quality, health and KPIs for teams
• Participate in cross-team discussions to shape automation and tooling strategy across the business

• Experience designing, developing and maintaining automation platforms and tooling in a modern software environment
• Strong programming skills in one or more of C#, Java, Python, Go or TypeScript
• Experience building automated testing frameworks across functional, integration, API, UI, performance and non-functional testing
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of software architecture, distributed systems and microservices
• Experience creating developer tooling or shared engineering platforms to boost productivity
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience implementing quality metrics, dashboards and visualization for software quality
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• collaboration
• communication
• analytical thinking
• C#
• Java
• Python