Release Engineering Manager jobs in San Jose, CA

Job Description

The Engineering Release Manager will be primarily responsible for ZIA platform Release Management lifecycle and target the coordination of various aspects of production and projects integrated into a single solution. Coordinate timelines, resources, quality across cross functional teams of development, product, Operation, and support. Build and manage automated CI/CD pipelines. Manage GIT and SVN branching strategy and align on Agile delivery release requirements.

The Engineering team develop innovative solutions that are transforming the internet security business, and millions of users rely on our service for data protection and comprehensive security. We also provide real-time analytics to our customers for unmatched visibility and maintain a state-of-the-art NOC. The development team works on web filtering, policy enforcement, next-gen firewall, sandboxing, DLP, and mobile user solutions. Being responsive to our customers and delivering industry-leading mission-critical solutions require precise engineering and a philosophy of continuous improvement, both areas in which Zscaler engineers excel.

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• You will communicate with the team regarding key project plans, commitments, and essential changes which include project requirements, schedule, scope changes, and QA plans. 
• You will drive build automation of Jenkins/Bamboo pipeline development, operation, maintenance, and improvements.
• You will capture and report Build statistics such as build time image size and coordinate with the development teams to continuously improve the stats.
• You will coordinate with different projects team and work on integrating their deliverables and development branches to align with the release delivery commitments.
• You will be managing the risks and resolving the issues that might hinder the project scope, quality, and timeline. 
• You will coordinate with the release engineers and understand the consequences of code merges and branches.
• You are responsible to making continuous improvements and bringing efficiency in the release process.
• You will maintain/uphold a release repository/source to manage key information like build and release procedures, notification lists, artifacts, and dependencies.
• You will analyze current configuration management requirements, research about latest configuration management and software development technologies and handle required change management.

Qualifications/Your Background:

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience within focused on C/C /JAVA build and release activity.
• Understanding of Linux/FreeBSD/Unix operating system and to perform administration activity of these servers.
• Work experience with Configuration management environment GIT, SVN. Hands on experience in creating branches and integrating/merging the branches.
• Experience in collaboration with geographically distributed teams and leading a team to drive release activities.
• Good understanding of complex projects build process - in depth understanding of the make and gmake tools.
• Work experience in resolving merge conflicts.
• Understating of Python, Shell script, C, C , Makefile and Java code.
• A thorough understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines and work experience with tools like Jenkins and Bamboo.
• Work experience with Artifactory tools like Nexus, Jfrog.

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