Release Manager
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Release Manager
Location: Chicago IL (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 months contract with possibility to be extended
Job Description:
The main function of a software engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design development testing and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work. A typical software engineer researches designs develops and tests operating systemslevel software compilers and network distribution software for medical industrial military communications aerospace business scientific and general computing applications.
Job Responsibilities:
- Review and approve the modification of existing databases and database management systems.
- Instruct staff to write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system
- Direct database development and approve project scope and limitations.
- Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.
- Plan coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage modification or disclosure.
- Approve schedule plan and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems.
- Develop standards and guidelines to guide the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
Skills:
- Verbal and written communication skills problem solving skills customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Expert ability to work independently and manage ones time.
- Expert mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
- Expert knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring to development testing and delivery.
- Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.
- Expert knowledge of computer hardware and software.
- Knowledge of computer development software as it relates to systems such as SQL VisualBasic etc.
Education/Experience:
Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering or relevant field required. 10 years experience required.
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 coordinate the build and release cycle of modern cloudbased customer facing Client Foresight web application by collaborating with Scrum Teams QA Product and Business stakeholders. You will be part of a fastmoving global team to build a bestinclass product for Client dealers worldwide to improve operational efficiency and reduce TCO.
Typical task breakdown:
As a Release Engineer/CoOrdinator 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
Technical Skills
(Required)
- 5 years of IT release or delivery management.
- 3 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 CoOrdinator
- 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 teamoriented environment
- Bachelors degree in Computer science
(Required)
High Communication skills
Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 85 shift please DO NOT submit them.
If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects DO NOT submit them.
Employment Type
Full Time
