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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- Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
- About 5 years of professional experience supporting AWS cloud environments
- Certified Amazon Architect Associate or Architect
- Experience serving as lead (shift management, reporting) will be a plus
- AWS Architect Certified Solution Architect Professional (Must have)
- Minimum 4yrs experience, maximum 8 years’ experience.
- 100% work from office in Hyderabad
- Very fluent in English
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for design, implementation, and continuous improvement on automated CI/CD infrastructure
- Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
- Responsible for designing topology to meet requirements for uptime, availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security
- Implement proactive measures for automated detection and resolution of recurring operational issues
- Lead operational support team manage incidents, document root cause and tracking preventive measures
- Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously validating/fixing vulnerability assessment reports and risk management
- Responsible for the design and development of tools, installation procedures
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- Responsible for the employment, timely performance evaluation, counselling, employee development, and discipline of assigned employees.
- Participates in calls and meetings with customers, vendors, and internal teams on regular basis.
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience with good technical knowledge regarding build, release, and systems engineering
Technical Skills:
- Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Bitbucket
- Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Prometheus ,Grafana
- Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
- Sound understanding of cloud technologies preferably AWS technologies
- Linux, Windows, Scripting, Configuration Management, Build and Release Engineering
- 6 years of experience in DevOps practices, with a good understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
- Good scripting skills (Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash)
- Experience with standard continuous integration tools Jenkins/Bitbucket Pipelines
- Work on software configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible)
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook) and other business productivity tools
- Working knowledge on HSM and PKI (Good to have)
Location:
- Bangalore
Experience:
- 10 + Years.
Excellent understanding of SDLC patching, releases and software development at scale.
Excellent knowledge of Git.
Excellent knowledge of Docker.
Good understanding of enterprise standards ond enterprise building principles,
In-depth knowledge in Windows OS
Knowledge of Linux os
Theoretical and practical skills in Web-environments based on .Net technologies, e.g. Ils,
Kestrel, .Net Core, C#.
Strong scripting skills in one or any combination of CMD Shell,Bash, PowerShell. Python.
Good understanding of the mechanisms of Web-environment architectures approaches.
Strong knowledge of cloud providers offering, Azure or AWS.
Good knowledge of a configuration management tools, Ansible, Chef, Salt stack, Puppet.
(Good to have)
Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure orchestration tools like kubemetes or cloud based orchestration.
Good knowledge in one or any combination of cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like
ARM Templates, Terraform, Pulumi.
In-depth knowledge in one or any combination of software delivery orchestration tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, etc.
Strong practical knowledge of CI Tools, ie, Azure Devops, Jenkins Excellent knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery approaches
Good knowledge on integration of Code Quality tools like SonarQube, Application or Container Security tool like Vera Code, Checksum, Chekov, Trivy.
In-depth knowledge on Azure DevOps Build infrastructure setup, Azure DevOps
Administration and Access management
Skills required:
Strong knowledge and experience of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP), systems, network design, and cloud migration projects.
Strong knowledge and understanding of CI/CD processes tools (Jenkins/Azure DevOps) is a must.
Strong knowledge and understanding of Docker & Kubernetes is a must.
Strong knowledge of Python, along with one more language (Shell, Groovy, or Java).
Strong prior experience using automation tools like Ansible, Terraform.
Architect systems, infrastructure & platforms using Cloud Services.
Strong communication skills. Should have demonstrated the ability to collaborate across teams and organizations.
Benefits of working with OpsTree Solutions:
Opportunity to work on the latest cutting edge tools/technologies in DevOps
Knowledge focused work culture
Collaboration with very enthusiastic DevOps experts
High growth trajectory
Opportunity to work with big shots in the IT industry
Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:
- Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
- Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
- Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak. When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
- Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?
Your bucket of undertakings:
This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.
- Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
- Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
- Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
- Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
- Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
- Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
- Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
- Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.
Accomplishment Set
- Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
- Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
- Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
- Highly organised and efficient.
- Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.
Experience :
- 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
- Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
- Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
- Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
- Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
- Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
- Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
- DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
- Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
- Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
Education :
- Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
- To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
- 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
- Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
- Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.
Job Description
- Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
- Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
- Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
- Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
- Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
- Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
- Good communications and Presentation Skills
Preferred Education:
Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field
Requirements
- Design, write and build tools to improve the reliability, latency, availability and scalability of HealthifyMe application.
- Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment
- Optimize performance and solve issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application, and network.
- Experienced in building infrastructure with terraform / cloudformation or equivalent.
- Experience with ansible or equivalent is beneficial
- Ability to use a wide variety of Open Source Tools
- Experience with AWS is a must.
- Minimum 5 years of running services in a large scale environment.
- Expert level understanding of Linux servers, specifically RHEL/CentOS.
- Practical, proven knowledge of shell scripting and at least one higher-level language (eg. Python, Ruby, GoLang).
- Experience with source code and binary repositories, build tools, and CI/CD (Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc)
- Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
Look forward to
- Working with a world-class team.
- Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings.
- Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie
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