Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology. Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
- Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
- Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
- Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
- Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
- Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
- Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
- Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
- Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
- Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
- Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
- Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
- Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
- Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
- Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
- Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
- Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
- Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
- Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments
- Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
- Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
- Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
- Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

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Key Responsibilities:
• Hands-on experience with AWS tools and CI/CD pipelines, Redhat Linux
• Strong expertise in DevOps practices and principles
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Nice to Have:
• Redhat certification
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Specific responsibilities will include:
- Leading the team in the development and implementation of automation and continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Managing the organization's infrastructure using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications.
- Ensuring that the organization's systems are secure and compliant with industry standards.
- Collaborating with software developers to design and implement infrastructure as code.
- Providing mentorship and technical guidance to team members.
- Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in collaboration with other IT professionals.
- Participating in the development and maintenance of the organization's disaster recovery and incident response plans.
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- Hands on experience in AWS provisioning of AWS services like EC2, S3,EBS, AMI, VPC, ELB, RDS, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation.
- Good experience on Build and release process and extensively involved in the CICD using
Jenkins
- Experienced on configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Jenkins CI/CD
- Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous Integration and for end to end Automation for all Builds and Deployments.
- Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases.
- Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
- Good knowledge in version control system in Git and GitHub.
- Good experience in build tools
- Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes ,YAML and Manifest
Job Description:
- Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
- Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others.
- Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
- Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
- To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
- Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
- Good with Linux environment.
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- Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
- Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
- Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
- Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
- Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
- Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
- Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
- Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
- Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
- Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
- Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL
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Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
Setting up tools and required infrastructure
Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
Incidence management and root cause analysis
Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
Mentoring and guiding the team members
Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
- 7-10 years experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices such as automating security processes within CI/CD pipeline.
- At least 4 yrs. experience designing, and securing Data Lake & Web applications deployed to AWS, Azure, Scripting/Automation skills on Python, Shell, YAML, JSON
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience with software development lifecycle, Agile project management (e.g. Jira, Confluence), source code management (e.g. Git), build automation (e.g. Jenkins), code linting and code quality (e.g. SonarQube), test automation (e.g. Selenium)
- Hand-on & Solid understanding of Amazon Web Services & Azure-based Infra & applications
- Experience writing cloud formation templates, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice application architecture and deployment.
- Strong know-how on VA/PT integration in CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience in handling financial solutions & customer-facing applications
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- Accelerate enterprise cloud adoption while enabling rapid and stable delivery of capabilities using continuous integration and continuous deployment principles, methodologies, and technologies
- Manage & deliver diverse cloud [AWS, Azure, GCP] DevSecOps journeys
- Identify, prototype, engineer, and deploy emerging software engineering methodologies and tools
- Maximize automation and enhance DevSecOps pipelines and other tasks
- Define and promote enterprise software engineering and DevSecOps standards, practices, and behaviors
- Operate and support a suite of enterprise DevSecOps services
- Implement security automation to decrease the loop between the development and deployment processes.
- Support project teams to adopt & integrate the DevSecOps environment
- Managing application vulnerabilities, Data security, encryption, tokenization, access management, Secure SDLC, SAST/DAST
- Coordinate with development and operations teams for practical automation solutions and custom flows.
- Own DevSecOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
- Act as Release gatekeeper with an understanding of OWASP top 10 lists of vulnerabilities, NIST SP-800-xx, NVD, CVSS scoring, etc concepts
- Build workflows to ensure a successful DevSecOps journey for various enterprise applications.
- Understand the strategic direction to reach business goals across multiple projects & teams
- Collaborate with development teams to understand project deliverables and promote DevSecOps culture
- Formulate & deploy cloud automation strategies and tools
Skills
- Knowledge of the DevSecOps culture and principles.
- An understanding of cloud technologies & components
- A flair for programming languages such as Shell, Python, Java Scripts,
- Strong teamwork and communication skills.
- Knowledge of threat modeling and risk assessment techniques.
- Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, and the latest software.
- An understanding of programs such as Puppet, Chef, ThreatModeler, Checkmarx, Immunio, and Aqua.
- Strong know-how of Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure-based deployments
- On the job learning for new programming languages, automation tools, deployment architectures
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- Work on the deployment of code via Bitbucket, AWS CodeDeploy and manual
- Work on Linux/Unix OS and Multi tech application patching
- Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hotfixes on servers.
- Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
- Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
- Easing developers’ life so that they can focus on the business logic rather than deploying and maintaining it.
- Managing release of the sprint.
- Educating team of the best practices.
- Finding ways to avoid human error and save time by automating the processes using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bitbucket pipelines, CodeDeploy, scripting
- Implementing cost effective measure on cloud and minimizing existing costs.
Skills and prerequisites
- OOPS knowledge
- Problem solving nature
- Willing to do the R&D
- Works with the team and support their queries patiently
- Bringing new things on the table - staying updated
- Pushing solution above a problem.
- Willing to learn and experiment
- Techie at heart
- Git basics
- Basic AWS or any cloud platform – creating and managing ec2, lambdas, IAM, S3 etc
- Basic Linux handling
- Docker and orchestration (Great to have)
- Scripting – python (preferably)/bash

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Required Skills and Experience
- 3+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
- 3+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
- Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
- Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
- Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
- Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
- Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
- Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
- Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
- Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
- Good communication skills
Good to have:
- Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
- Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
- Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
Responsibilities
- Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
- Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
- Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.








