IT Software Engineer 5 (Release Mgr)
Primary Skills: Program Management
Location: Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase
C2C: Yes
Duration: Long Term
Visa: Any
Positions Contributions to Work Group:Client Digital has an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated Release Engineer. The primary purpose of the role is to monitor and co-ordinate the build and release cycle of modern cloud-based customer facing Client Foresight web application by collaborating with Scrum Teams, QA, Product and Business stakeholders.
You will be part of a fast-moving global team to build a best-in-class product for Client dealers worldwide to improve operational efficiency and reduce TCO.
Typical task breakdown: 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- Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago
- onsite about one day a week.
Onsite time may increase.
Interaction with team:Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team. Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.
Work environment: Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.Education & Experience Required: Degree with 10+ years experience
Master degree with 8+ years experience
Required Technical Skills5+ years of IT release or delivery management.
3+ experience with CICD pipelines, GIT and DevOps tools and technologiesExcellent 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
Bachelors degree in Computer science
Required Soft SkillsHigh Communication skills
Disqualifiers/Red Flags: 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.