Senior Release Engineer

Position - Senior Release Engineer 

Location - Remote within United States

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• Implementing and managing the release process from development to testing then finally to the production environments.
• Automating tasks across the release process in terms of security, traceability, flow and quality gates to ensure highest industry standards, reducing human intervention.
• Work with the platform/devops team to build the right infrastructure to handle consistent, on-time delivery of high quality releases. 
• Scheduling, managing and coordinating releases across multiple components across different teams and projects.
• Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules 
• Continuously monitor releases and provide reports about their progress and stage to stakeholders while ensuring the proper quality standards are met
• Ensuring all team members and release stakeholders are adhering to engineering best practices and release validation processes to ensure best release quality 
• Making improvements on a regular basis to the release process based on continuous monitoring and feedback from stakeholders
• Focused on the bigger picture and views the software development and release processes in relation to the overall business objectives
• Conducting release readiness and validating release manifests
• Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution

Qualifications/Your Background:

• 6 years of experience in IT/Computer science with a minimum of 5 years in release engineering or release management or automation engineering related positions
• Experience working with Jenkins, and GIT.
• Experience in building docker images and build configuration
• Proficiency building and maintaining pipelines.
• Worked with Jira
• Python, Groovy and/or Bash scripting skills
• Kubernetes
• At least 3 years of experience working for a SaaS/cloud company with an agile delivery model
• Advanced Knowledge of the SDLC

Nice to haves:

• Experience in working with continuous integration/delivery tools and frameworks ) is a plus (e.g Ansible, ArgoCD etc.)
• Experience in building golang, nodejs, rust application
• Basic Experience with Monitoring or Application Logging tools
• Basic Understanding of Test Automation tools

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