ShipItCon 2017 – tickets available

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ShipitCon is a community event for engineers involved in the building and deployment of software.

ShipItCon is being organised primarily by engineers and managers working within the games industry in Ireland including Demonware and Digit Game Studios.

This is a non-profit event, organised by volunteers and any remaining funds will be donated to a local charity.

Tickets are now on sale!

Early bird registration will end on April 30th. They also offer an unwaged ticket.


Speakers

Frederic Meyer

Frederic Meyer

Senior Director of Pipeline Engineering at Workday

Continuous Delivery @ Workday

Workday patches more than 1000 customers every Friday night, for the last 10 years. It takes a good code Pipeline, and a lot of automation to make this possible. I’ll cover tools, processes, challenges and ideas related to Continuous Delivery @ Workday.

 

Eric Maxwell

Eric Maxwell

Success Engineer at Chef Software

The Looming Complexity Crisis

Join me as I tell you the story of Jane, a rockstar developer with a great idea that could breathe new life into her company! That is, if she doesn’t table-flip trying to figure out HOW and WHERE to deploy her great idea. Cloud? PasS? Docker? Follow Jane as she descends into the fiery depths of infrastructure-complexity hell. If only a Habitat plan.sh could come together to save the day…

 

Jacopo Scrinzi

Jacopo Scrinzi

Product Engineer at Intercom

What I wish I had known before moving to Infrastructure As Code

Not long ago, the infrastructure at Intercom was entirely handcrafted. Provisioning would mainly rely on ops, making the process painful, risky and slow. With our rapid growth, this quickly became unsustainable. To address this, we decided to investigate Infrastructure As Code using Terraform, with the end goal of giving Product Engineers the ability to safely and easily make changes to our infrastructure. In an uncharted territory with many questions and unknowns, changing the way we provision is not an easy task. This gave us the opportunity to explore different approaches and determine what Infrastructure as Code means for us. In this talk, we will cover: How we’ve set our requirements, why we picked Terraform, the challenges, mistakes and lessons learned, our vision and future plans for this ongoing project.

 

Eugene Kenny

Eugene Kenny

Ops Engineer at Intercom

Deep dive on how Intercom ships code to production 100 times a day

Intercom has practiced Continuous Delivery since the very early days of the company. This has meant that our engineering culture and practices have evolved around, and heavily rely upon, our build and deployment infrastructure. With the rapid growth we’ve experienced over the last few years, maintaining and improving these systems has been critical to keeping our ability to move fast and iterate quickly. This talk will cover the evolution of Intercom’s internal deployment system, Muster, as our engineering organisation has grown from 4 people hacking on a Rails app to a team of almost 100 working on multiple applications in a constellation of languages and frameworks.


 

Book and reserve tickets at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shipitcon-2017-tickets-33376944339

Gambrinous X 2 positions (Dublin/remote)

guild of dungeoneering

 

As metioned at State of Play last week Gambrinous are looking to hire two people to work on their next game: a Game Designer and a Writer. This is a chance to join the award winning games studio Gambrinous as they embark on their second game making adventure.

The ideal person for the Game Designer position would

  • love creating engaging, elegant systems that are a joy to play, learn and master
  • have a deep interest in board games and card games and what makes them tick
  • be keen to apply board & card game mechanics to a digital game
  • have a portfolio of previous games or prototypes they have built
  • enjoy working in a small team where everyone’s effort makes a big difference

The ideal person for the Writer position would

  • be able to absolutely nail character and dialogue
  • deliver branching interactive narrative with humour and charm
  • have a knowledge and passion for 80s and 90s toys, games and pop culture
  • have previous creative writing experience – not necessarily in gaming
  • work autonomously to deadlines
  • be happy to absorb ideas from all team members – we’re sharers

We are based in Dublin, Ireland but are also willing to talk about working remotely with the right person.

Interested? Great! Drop us an email (jobs@gambrinous.com) and tell us about yourself. We would also love to see some of your previous work and get an idea of your salary expectations.

Thank you!
Colm Larkin

About Gambrinous

Gambrinous is an independent game studio based in Dublin, Ireland. We make digital games inspired by the wonder of tabletop & board games. Our first title Guild of Dungeoneering was released for PC in July 2015 to much acclaim and has since seen two expansions and been ported to iOS & Android.

Posted April 2017

 

Assist Lecturer in Computing Games Dev (Dundalk)

ASSISTANT LECTURER IN COMPUTING GAMES DEVELOPMENT (FIXED TERM CAREER BREAK)

DESCRIPTION

Qualifications:

Applicants must hold a primary honours degree in a relevant discipline and ideally have a postgraduate qualification of at least Masters level and have a minimum of three years¿ post qualification experience. A relevant PhD and/or relevant industry experience is of advantage.

Applicants should have expertise in the following areas:

  • Java, C++ and C#.
  • Web Development (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.).
  • 2D and 3D graphics engine development in DirectX, OpenGL, WebGL, or XNA;
  • Unreal or Unity Engine;
  • 3D content in 3DS Max or Maya;
  • Game development lifecycle and Agile development;
  • Cloud based software repositories (e.g. Bitbucket).
  • Web Development (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.).

The appointee will be expected to contribute to teaching and supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate level across a range of areas within the Computing discipline.

Salary Scale: Assistant Lecturer €36,743 – €50,487 (10 points) per annum

See full description at  https://my.corehr.com/pls/dkitrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form 

Application forms may be accessed on the DKIT on-line e-Recruitment system.No other form of application will be accepted. Further information is available on the Institute website www.dkit.ie, IrishJobs.ie and PublicJobs.ie.

Late applications are not accepted.

All interviews for the post of Assistant Lecturer in Computing will be held face-to-face with no remote interviews being facilitated.

Dundalk Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunities Employer

Posted April 10th, 2017.