Pre-release Engineer

Job Title: Pre-release Engineer

Location: Philadelphia, PA 19019 (Hybrid roles)

Duration: 6+ months Contract

Job Description :

Responsibilities

• As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for driving on-time, high quality releases across a large number of devices.
• You would be responsible for the complete release management lifecycle, which includes scheduling, coordination, and management of releases
• on number of deployed devices.
• The position will require daily collaboration with Development, Field Triage and QA teams at different geographical location.
• You will assess and implement new tools, plugins, etc. that are necessary to improve the software release engineering process.
• You will manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.

Required Skills:

• 6-7 years of experience in Engineering and Release Management in Broadband/networking domain
• A strong technical background in Software engineering including best practices and understanding of software development lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Continuous Integration & Delivery
• Good in Release Management experience in Agile environment.
• Lead and own activities that would drive Release excellence on all RDK devices
• Excellent organizational, technical, problem solving, and communication skills
• Document processes, identify potential points of failure, and perform root cause analysis.

Knowledge and experience in Build/Release technology such as:

• SCM Tools: Git, Gerrit, SVN,
• Languages: C , C++ & Linux
• Scripting: Python & Shell script
• JiRA plugins & Confluence
• Build tools: Jenkins
• Reporting Tools: Tableau & Splunk /Elk
• Knowledge with Linux and Embedded software .
• Knowledge and experience in Broadband software /networking is preferred.