What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Release Engineer position at Wipro Ltd.?
Job Description
We are Wipro (NYSE: WIT), a rapidly expanding and leading global Information Technology, Consulting and Business Process Services company with over 225,000 employees worldwide, servicing clients in 175 cities and 69 countries across 6 continents. For more information, please visit
Role-Senior Release Engineer
Location- Austin TX
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of agile scrum teams.
• Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply build and release engineering best practices
• Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures
• Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications
• Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 deployment support across multiple non-production environments
• Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running
• Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem
• Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development Operations, and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment support
• Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
• Participate and determine root cause for service failure and support escalation
• Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific deployment problem
• Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools
• Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
• Champion and Evangelize the vision for the CM and Release Strategy
• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team
• Implement metrics, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for the process and the team
REQUIREMENTS
These are the basic requirements for this role
- 5 years of industry experience overall with at least 4 years of experience in release and configuration management roles
- Build and troubleshoot build/deploy issues in java applications
- Exposure to CHEF, ANISBLE (preferable)
- Linux and Shell Scripting and Automation
- Experience in deployment management tool - Jenkins, both in setup and support is highly desired.
- Expert knowledge of CM concepts (codelines, branching, merging, integration, versioning, etc.)
- Experience with structured build files/tools (ant, Maven)
- Experience with a scripting language Python, bash)
- Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX;
- Should have working experience with monitoring tools like OPPNET and/or SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
- Experience in working with Oracle and/or MySQL DB's
- Experience with Java web environments ( JBoss, Tomcat (Must))
- Experience with multiple software version control systems (GIT(Must).)
- Experience with Change Management tools (Jira, ClearQuest, etc.)
- Good attention to detail, someone who takes ownership and pride in all work.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work with and manage distributed teams.
- Passion for quality in CM processes
- Thrives in a fast paced environment with continuously changing priorities
- Ability to move forward given ambiguous conditions
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Results driven; does what it takes to get the job done and naturally goes the extra mile
- Ability to manage multiple deployments simultaneously and prioritize time with minimal supervision
- Complete understanding of the software development life-cycle.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies (scrum, xp, etc.)
Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person's race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law
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Role-Senior Release Engineer
Location- Austin TX
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of agile scrum teams.
• Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply build and release engineering best practices
• Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures
• Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications
• Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 deployment support across multiple non-production environments
• Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running
• Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem
• Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development Operations, and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment support
• Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
• Participate and determine root cause for service failure and support escalation
• Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific deployment problem
• Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools
• Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
• Champion and Evangelize the vision for the CM and Release Strategy
• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team
• Implement metrics, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for the process and the team
REQUIREMENTS
These are the basic requirements for this role
- 5 years of industry experience overall with at least 4 years of experience in release and configuration management roles
- Build and troubleshoot build/deploy issues in java applications
- Exposure to CHEF, ANISBLE (preferable)
- Linux and Shell Scripting and Automation
- Experience in deployment management tool - Jenkins, both in setup and support is highly desired.
- Expert knowledge of CM concepts (codelines, branching, merging, integration, versioning, etc.)
- Experience with structured build files/tools (ant, Maven)
- Experience with a scripting language Python, bash)
- Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX;
- Should have working experience with monitoring tools like OPPNET and/or SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
- Experience in working with Oracle and/or MySQL DB's
- Experience with Java web environments ( JBoss, Tomcat (Must))
- Experience with multiple software version control systems (GIT(Must).)
- Experience with Change Management tools (Jira, ClearQuest, etc.)
- Good attention to detail, someone who takes ownership and pride in all work.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work with and manage distributed teams.
- Passion for quality in CM processes
- Thrives in a fast paced environment with continuously changing priorities
- Ability to move forward given ambiguous conditions
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Results driven; does what it takes to get the job done and naturally goes the extra mile
- Ability to manage multiple deployments simultaneously and prioritize time with minimal supervision
- Complete understanding of the software development life-cycle.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies (scrum, xp, etc.)
Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person's race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law
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