DevOps / Release Engineer

IBA InfoTech Inc.

Watertown, MA, United States

about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Experienced

Experience required

3 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

ibainfotech.com

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services JIRA Bash Shell Business Process Modeling Software as a Service Cloud Computing Databases Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration DevOps Revision Control Systems

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Groovy Monitoring of Systems WildFly (JBoss AS) Python (Programming Language) Apache Maven Microsoft SQL Server Scrum Methodology Systems Development Life Cycle Release Management Shell Script Software Deployment Web Applications Scripting Git Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Atlassian Tools Build Tools Software Version Control Docker Jenkins Golang

Job description

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.

Requirements

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.