Senior Release Engineer

Responsibilities

• A Release Engineer should plan, coordinate and track the release management lifecycle for releases across multiple applications and modules of the Aera Platform. The candidate will be focused on the bigger picture and views the software development and release processes in relation to the overall business objectives.
• The candidate will also recommend and provide guidance to the teams for tools and services needed to help product teams manage and deploy code into production. Therefore, this manager will be responsible for implementing and managing the release process from development to testing then finally to the production environments. The goal of this manager is to handle consistent, on-time delivery of high-quality releases across platform. 


The following are the typical daily tasks of a Release Engineer:


• Scheduling, managing and coordinating releases across multiple applications within various portfolios across different teams and projects
• Effectively schedule builds and testing as well as create release plans
• Constructing a release calendar for the different projects to have a centralized view of all releases
• Manage and mitigate risks and resolve issues regarding release quality and schedule
• Ensuring all team members are adhering to engineering best practices as well as enforcing DevOps policies
• Monitoring the release process and collecting feedback from the different teams as well as customers for review
• Making improvements on a regular basis to the release process
• Share and improve the current process via introducing industry best practices
• Need to work across different teams involved in the software development processes and will provide support to developers as they set up test environments
• Need to work and coordinate with the IT team in order to enhance software engineering practices and work closely with project managers

About You

• Must have a background in computer science, with advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle with project management background
• candidate should have 8+ years of experience in working as a Release Engineer and independently handling these activities
• Need to have technical skills with thorough knowledge of branching strategy, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Should possess good communication skills, interpersonal skills and problem-solving abilities to resolve any cross-functional team issues
• Should be able to work under dynamic environment to handle multiple releases in parallel
• Should have knowledge of DevOps practice and tools like Git, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, GitHub Actions etc.