DevOps / Release Engineer

• Work closely with engineering, operations and testing teams to assure robust code line management, environment availability and smooth production deployments.
• Automate and streamline processes to support continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Serve the primary owner of build/release tools and processes and drive improvements to ease release management tasks.
• Support environment monitoring and availability.

Accountabilities:

• Define best practices for source code control, branching, and environment/release management.
• Build code management tools for internal use to support software engineering best practices.
• Manage complex branching/merging of repositories to support multiple development streams.
• Deploy releases to various environments (Integration/test/Staging/Production, etc.).
• Work closely with engineering, operations and testing teams to identify the release management needs.
• Evangelize SDLC processes for infrastructure change.

• B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a release engineering or DevOps position, ideally working with SaaS offerings or public facing web applications.
• Intimate knowledge of source control systems, specifically with Git/GitHub, and best practices for branching and deployment.
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration with experience in tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of build tools such as Jenkins Pipeline, Travis, Maven.
• Expert knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, Go.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum and DevOps concepts. Ability to explain and evangelize cloud computing best practices.
• Strong background in Linux / Unix administration.
• Experience with cloud providers like GCE or AWS is a plus.
• Experience with MS SQL Server database, Atlassian tools including JIRA, Wildfly/JBOSS.
• Understanding of monitoring systems and log aggregators such as ELK.