Release Engineer jobs in Cedar Rapids, IA

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The Training Services Salesforce instance is a combination of multiple clouds (Sales, Service, Experience, etc.) and integrations that come together to serve the larger American Red Cross organization through the delivery of training (E.g.

This position owns the bi-weekly releases in the Salesforce environments for all of Training Services as well as project-specific releases.

• Develop and maintain software configuration management tools (I.e. Flosum) to support configuration identification, control, reporting, and delivery of both internally developed and externally purchased software products within our Salesforce application.
• Maintain all Salesforce sandboxes and their refresh schedules.
• Apply specialized technical expertise to resolve code conflicts amongst environments and validate release packages prior to implementation.
• Serve as the "release management" lead on projects, provide training and guidance to other staff. The work location for this exciting opportunity is virtual. The selected candidate will work 100% remotely from home and can be located anywhere in the United States but must work an east coast schedule.

• Perform configuration management and release engineering tasks to ensure new software product operating parameters are documented, comply with standard hardware configurations, and are logistically sustainable.
• Design, develop, automate, and maintain productivity tools using programming, database or scripting languages to improve software modeling and development.
• Design and implement build procedures that are used to support software product development and use.
• Track and maintain the project Change Requests, Impact Assessments, Incident Reports, and Software Change Notices on a continuous basis.
• Develop software configuration standards within the Training Services Salesforce team.
• Serve as a project lead. Provide training and guidance to other staff. Contribute technical expertise to projects.

• Hands on daily experience working with Release Management, DevOps or DevSecOps and working with a release tool like Flosum, Gearset or Copado are required.
• Salesforce Administrator or Developer certification – nice to have
• Flosum Certified Professional or Flosum Certified Expert – nice to have

• Attention to detail.
• Highly organized
• A lover of lists
• And a juggler all of the Salesforce environments in Training Services. Combination of candidate's education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description's minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience cannot be substituted).

Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed.

Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO Holidays
• 401K with up to 5% Match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance Programs

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