Release Engineer

Senior Release Engineer:

Job / Role Overview

This client is currently in the process of progressive growth within the organisation and now requires a 2nd Release Manager to join their existing and expanding team.

Release Manager Duties:

• Be hands on Technical Manager being able to code, program and at the same being able to co-ordinate, manage release projects.
• Work within our Release and Environments Management Team – Managing Releases, Building Environments, automating release process and supporting multiple teams.
• Functionally manage project and production environments in relation to software releases and software change management.
• Work closely with the Development, QA and Operations Teams on all software builds/releases and environments support.
• Promote best practices of release and environments management – DevOps.
• Liaise with multiple stakeholders, external vendors, to facilitate orderly roll out, testing and sign-off of software releases across complex suite of test environments.

Your position will be a mix of both strategic and hands on, allowing you ownership across multiple enterprise level technology platforms in a fast paced Financial Services environment managing end to end release platforms and cycles.

Key Responsibilities

Release Management

• Manage coding and release workshops.
• Providing release governance across multiple development and infrastructure projects.
• Monitoring and approval of releases and change requests.
• Coordinate releases including pre-release checks, validation of release change sets, release schedule, code freeze, etc.

Environments Management

• Improving processes around environments and supporting efficient usage and delivery of test environments.
• Management of development and production environments. 

SCM / Build Management

• Delivering best practices under SCM / Version control.
• Automating the build, Continuous Integration (CI)

Configuration and Deployment Management

• Tracking and monitoring of defects associated with code deployments
• Ownership of the deployment (code and configuration) process across systems
• Automating deployment process across multiple platforms and systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

• At least 3-4 years of experience as a release / configuration / build engineer.
• More than 5 years of experience in Release Management.
• Experience in Build tools including – Subversion, Maven/Ant
• Strong exposure / experience on Continuous Integration (automated/manual) – Jenkins
• Automation experience – Deployment automation, configuration management automation – using Python, Windows PowerShell, Unix shell scripting
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (Waterfall, Scrum, TDD).
• Exposure to Application Servers – Oracle Web logic (11g), IBM Web Sphere
• Testing Tools exposure – HP Quality Centre, Selenium, Load runner
• Application Lifecycle Management tools and process (Microsoft TFS, Jira, Serena Team Track, Serena Business Manager, etc.)