Release Engineer-Manager

Release Engineer/Manager 

Primary Location – West Chester, PA

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V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a Release Engineer/Manager for our premier client in West Chester, PA. This is a contract/contract-to-hire position in the telecommunications industry.

Release Engineer/Manager would ensure the successful delivery of changes and releases of the Applications and services and other components to Production (& Pre-Production) environments. The Release Engineer/Manager is responsible for the change, release and production environment management process as well as integrated process design, optimization and policy.

You will anchor the day-to-day operations of the Einstein Change and Release management, working alongside geo-distributed teams to effect deployments, post deployment validation & logical conclusion of Release windows with zero unplanned service impact.

Education and Experience »

• Hands-on experience in generating executive & detailed reports for Change-and-Release Management windows
• Knowledge of Change-and-Release Management Processes for n-Tier Architecture (Frontend / Backend-API / Databases (SQL/NoSQL) / 3rd party components) based complex systems
• Exposure to Software Release management for Products/Systems based on Windows/Linux environment over Private Cloud / Azure/ Cloud Foundry / AWS ecosystem
• Well versed with Continuous integration and delivery, GitHub, TFS, JFrog Artifactory, Config Server/Steeltoe, GoCD, TeamCity, Octopus for .Net, Jenkins, Ansible and other CICD technologies
• Experience in branching for configuration management systems for complex enterprise applications with many stand-alone components which can be deployed in isolation to production/pre-production env.
• Deep Experience (at least 4 years) in Software Release Management – Planning, Change Approval Processes, Knowledge of QA/Certification checks & Deployment Processes
• Experience in independently anchoring Change and Release Management windows, coordinating with Deployment/DevOps, Delivery, QA teams
• Experience in handling adhoc releases based on business critical needs, making release rollback decisions based on health/challenges encountered during release windows
• Experience in anchoring/organizing Release management Calls with multiple stakeholders including Senior Leadership, Product Owners, QA & Dev Leads, Deployment / Operations leaders
• Experience in creating, monitoring & modifying Change and Release Management Processes-Policies through analysis of current methods
• Experience in Development/Testing of Web Applications & Web services for B2C / B2B needs, preferably in Telecom/eCommerce/Retail Domains

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities »

• Hands-on experience as a Release Engineer of Github base GoCD pipeline and other CICD technologies. 
• Experience with defining, monitoring, tracking, reporting & addressing challenges during Change and Release Management windows.
• Experience in working with diverse, multi-discipline teams spread across globe. Mandatory to have worked in an environment that had distributed Development teams Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, QA teams & L2/DevOps groups to accomplish overall project goals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Job Responsibilities »

• Prepare, Develop, implement and measure Gitflow based code branching strategy and GoCD pipeline for consistent code deployments in non-production & production environments.
• As needed, develop tools to ease code configuration management & merges for DevOps.
• Plan, co-ordinate, execute & complete all Production Release windows with minimal service disruption & any unplanned downtimes / service degradation.
• Anchor all activities related to Planned / Unplanned Releases with senior business management to ensure minimal disruption to service delivery
• Active Participation / Anchoring of Change Management process meeting to arrive at release go/no-go decisions
• Work with Release Management, Business-Product-Delivery teams in the creation/modification of SLA’s about change and release management processes, procedures.
• Creating, owning and ensuring the maintenance of any associated release or change documentation and processes, including negotiating agreement for these with senior business representatives
• Be available to manage situations in the event escalation is required following changes or releases in Pre-Production / Production environments
• Provide the relevant management information relating to all changes and releases, including detailed trend analysis to show performance
• To engage in continuous service improvement initiatives in order to deliver a more effective, consistent service to the business
• Hold regular change and release performance reviews with business, product & delivery teams to discuss areas of success and areas of concern.
• Completing the relevant minutes to track any actions and feedback
• Work with the L2 DevOps / incident manager and incident management processes to recover services as quickly as possible in the event of a failed, service affecting change
• Define, document and maintain full roles and responsibilities for Change and Release disciplines
• Implement KPI metrics for measuring overall and individual success rates, and provide reports based on output
• Challenging stakeholder teams during planning to ensure the best possible agreement is reached and the appropriate plans are in place for smooth delivery and deployment
• Undertake any other relevant tasks, determined required by the Release Management leadership team
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

Interested?

Qualified candidates should send their resumes to resumes@vsoftconsulting.com

V-Soft Consulting Group is headquartered in Louisville, KY with strategic locations in India and across the U.S., including Madison, Chicago, Denver, Harrisburg and Atlanta. Known as an agile innovative technology services company, we were recently rewarded the Large Business of the Year award from Louisville Business First, and were recognized among the top 100 fastest growing staffing companies in North America.

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