Release Engineer

SUMMARY:
Our client is seeking a Release Engineer who will work within their DevOps team and Front-End Scrum teams. With your 3+ years’ work experience in a development environment and experience in a fast-paced, agile environment you will be automating and optimizing their software build and deployment process.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

• Automate and optimize their software build and deployment system, ensuring they measure and minimize the time from commit to customer
• Make sure build and deployment processes are following known best practices, coach and train developers on best practices that help them become more efficient
• Build, extend, and maintain the software release pipeline system, ruthlessly minimizing the feedback loop for developers and release time to for customers
• Plan and build Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
• Education of the team on the best use of build, deployment and other tools
• Repeatability of the release management process for the development team
• Scale pipeline to support more customers, systems and developers
• Building and maintaining the build and deploy pipeline environment
• Automating release to manufacturing steps, optimizing for continuous release and deployments to scale
• Raise build and deploy infrastructure issues and potential improvements with Operations and DevOps Teams
• Manage build and deploy infrastructure
• Liaise with Engineers in other teams on a regular basis on common issues
• Performing other software development tasks, such as developing code for internal and external web applications
• Working with QA and Dev team to push the envelope on known best practices for automation, always improving them
• Exercise technical consistency within the IT environment.
• Demonstrate culture of individual leadership and development and exhibit progressive attitude to technology and career

• A BSc Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, a BCom Business Information Systems (BIS) Degree, or a very high quality Technikon Diploma

• 3+ years of work experience in a development environment
• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools (ALM)
• Experience with AWS Cloud and virtualization
• Experience with cloud platforms is required
• Experience with various development & scripting languages:
• JavaScript
• .NET, C#
• Python
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Hands on experience with various operating systems and environments:
• Linux
• Windows
• Kubernetes
• Experience with collaboration & development tools:
• SCM – Git distributed source control
• Build – GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins
• Deploy – Octopus, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Rundeck, Helm