Release Engineer/IT Software Engineer

KnackHook LLC

Chicago, IL, United States

15 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

6 years minimum

Working hours

Shift work

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Amazon Cloudfront Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Continuous Integration DevOps Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Scrum Methodology

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Git Cloudformation Amazon Relational Database Service Route53 Cloudwatch Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Cucumber (Software)

Requirements

Bachelor’’s Degree with 10+ years of experience Or Master’’s degree with 8+ years of experience

Required Qualifications:

As a Release Engineer/Co-Ordinator, you will be responsible for monitoring CI/CD pipelines for smooth and successful builds and develop the UAT and production release plans.
You will also be coordinating with important stakeholders such as QA, Infrastructure, Product and Business managers to resolve build problems, determine the release feature set and gathering of release documentation.
Successful candidate also will perform DevOps role as secondary role. As a DevOps role successful candidate will demonstrate competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, Lambda.
Proficient in Python programming language and tech stacks
Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.

Required Technical Skills:

8+ years of IT release or delivery management.
6-7+ experience with CICD pipelines, GIT and DevOps tools and technologies
Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills Top candidates will also have:
Experience in/with the following: o Azure DevOps o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) with multiple other teams as a Scrum Master or Program Manager or Project Co-Ordinator
Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following, o AWS Cloud, automated CICD and BDD with Cucumber.
Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
Execution, AWS/Cloud Agents/Infrastructure..Etc.

Benefits & conditions

If candidate is not local but open to relocation on their dime and being there in office day 1, please make that clear on the resume.
Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
WD will look at candidates who are local over those who are open to relocating on their own dime.