If you don't like the sound of

"The literate plugin adds an Action to all Free-style projects that allows exporting these XML configuration snippets in a .zip file for unpacking into your project's source control."

then you might enjoy CircleCI (https://circleci.com).

We've always believed in understandable configuration checked into source control, with sane defaults and configuration over convention. The configuration (https://circleci.com/docs/configuration) is sane and human readable in yaml, yet incredibly powerful, and allows you set up a simple config in 5 minutes, and a complex config in an hour.