Senior Release Engineer

Job Responsibilities

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Role: Senior Release Engineer

Duration: Long Term Contract

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Required Education/Experience:

Bachelor's Degree with 10+ years of experience

Required Qualifications:

• 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
• Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
• Conducting the scrum-on-scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.

Required Technical Skills:

• 10+ years of IT release or delivery management.
• 7+ 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 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
• Execution, AWS/Cloud Agents/Infrastructure. Etc.