Job Summary: 

The Senior Release Engineer is responsible for ensuring that release process is automated for mobile, web and backend applications and adheres to release engineering best practices. This role would automate the release process using CI/CD framework such as Jenkins and establish release train readiness and product onboarding.

Job Expectations: 

• Design and develop Enterprise level Continuous Integration Environment for Build and Test systems

• Improve and encourage development hygiene by incorporating unit testing, code coverage, functional testing, container security scanning, static code analysis within the development workflow

• Collaborate with engineering teams to devise code branching strategies, application deployment and rollback strategies, and implementing the development workflow in the CI pipeline

• Ability to drive cross functional projects that impact global development teams

• Develop an overall plan for processes and tools with the intent of creating a well-integrated build and release system

• Develop and implement release train onboarding and exit criteria

• Troubleshoot build and deployment related issues

• Ability to work with a diverse group of people, effectively balance competing priorities, and meet tight timelines

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of source control management systems (i.e. Git) and code branching/merging strategies

• Familiar with managing on demand instances - AWS Technologies

• Knowledge of software that enables automatic provisioning and deployment like Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS-ECS

• Knowledge on unit testing, code-coverage tools and configuration management (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt )

• Expertise with one or more build automation tools ( Jenkins, GitLab CircleCI, Bamboo, Bitrise)

• Working knowledge of modern software architecture such as micro services, event-driven architectures, containers, frontend for backend services

• Able to identify areas of weakness between release pipelines and provide enhancements

• Ability to understand loosely defined specifications and identify build strategy, tools and resources required

• Hands-on experience with complex build systems

• Knowledge of webhooks, tags and other trigger mechanisms essential for build and release 

• Strong ownership instincts and being able to mentor junior team members  

Experience Requirements:

Generally eight (8) plus years experience with CI, config management and automation tools. Experience programming and scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Bash and C# is a plus.

Education Requirements:

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

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