Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texass electrical grid the Texas Interconnection which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the states electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE) one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membershipbased 501(c) nonprofit corporation and its members include consumers electric cooperatives generators power marketers retail electric providers investorowned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers) and municipally owned electric utilities.
Job Title: Release Analyst
Location: Taylor TX 76574
Duration: 11 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
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Provides support oversight administration and facilitation of changes that affect Client facilities infrastructure hardware operating systems database platforms firmware network and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations.
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Ensure audit tracking reliability availability correct functionality system integrity and risk mitigation in Clients IT Service Delivery model by coordinating communicating and recording changes to Clients nondevelopment environments. Coordinates & facilitates all the Clients Software Hardware and Infrastructure code and configuration changes.
Essential Job Duties:
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Organize and facilitate effective release planning meetings.
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Managing release schedules and/or key infrastructure initiatives across multiple applications.
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Planning managing and executing release cycles including tracking release deliverables functional/security test signoffs and leading release efforts for nonprod and prod deployments.
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Prepare release plans for various applications track and maintain them.
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Review release plans change requests in release pipelines
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Coordinate release builds to the appropriate environments (Testing Production etc.)
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Perform data analysis using SQL for generating release metrics and scorecards
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Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable release cadence
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Standardization of release process across IT applications by working with various stakeholders
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Cross functional dependency management mapping for various releases and maintenance of the same
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Collaborate with release leads/managers to deliver a comprehensive plan and ensure delivery excellence across the application portfolio.
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Flexibility to work outside of business hours as needed to support release deployments.
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Providing support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB) as needed
Education:
Work Experience:
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Minimum 3 years experience in IT Change and Release Management
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Minimum of five (5) years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in system integration processes
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Understanding of ITIL Best Practices in IT Service Management (Change/Release/Incident/Problem) Management
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Working knowledge with tools like Jira Confluence Service Now
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Cloud infrastructure knowledge/experience is a plus
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SQL/VB Scripting/Data Analysis knowledge is a plus
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.