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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What you will do
We are looking for an exceptional engineering lead to join our team. You will be responsible for building and owning the systems that would have critical impact for the business and the experience of our community from day one.
- Build and lead an agile engineering team
- Work closely with Founder on product development
- Collaborate with operations team to understand customer pain points and solve interesting problems
- Code, test, ship - manage the entire application cycle
- Build libraries and documentation for future references
- Research and develop best practices and tools to enable delivery of features
- Set up capabilities to track and report business and user metrics
- Design and improve architecture to ensure scalability
Requirements
- Proven experience at scaling tech companies, preferably in commerce or social network
- Keen to innovate, open-minded and collaborative
- Able to interpret product needs and suggest appropriate solutions
- Have led a team, also able to code hands-on
- Strong communication skills
- Strong work ethic: responsible, responsive, and detail-oriented.
Technologies we use
Go, Flutter, AWS, Google Cloud
Role Description:
● Own, deploy, configure, and manage infrastructure environment and/or applications in
both private and public cloud through cross-technology administration (OS, databases,
virtual networks), scripting, and monitoring automation execution.
● Manage incidents with a focus on service restoration.
● Act as the primary point of contact for all compute, network, storage, security, or
automation incidents/requests.
● Manage rollout of patches and release management schedule and implementation.
Technical experience:
● Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Golang.
● Expertise in using command line tools and shells
● Strong working knowledge of Linux/UNIX and related applications
● Knowledge in implementing DevOps and having an inclination towards automation.
● Sound knowledge in infrastructure-as-a-code approaches with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or
Terraform, and Helm. (preference towards Terraform, Ansible, and Helm)
● Must have strong experience in technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift,
etc.
● Working with REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs
● Knowledge in networking, firewalls, network automation
● Experience with Continuous Delivery pipelines - Jenkins/JenkinsX/ArgoCD/Tekton.
● Experience with Git, GitHub, and related tools
● Experience in at least one public cloud provider
Skills/Competencies
● Foundation: OS (Linux/Unix) & N/w concepts and troubleshooting
● Automation: Bash or Python or Golang
● CI/CD & Config Management: Jenkin, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Chef/Puppet, Git/GitHub
● Infra as a Code: Terraform
● Platform: Docker, K8s, VMs
● Databases: MySQL, PostgreSql, DataStore (Mongo, Redis, AeroSpike) good to have
● Security: Vulnerability Management and Golden Image
● Cloud: Deep working knowledge on any public cloud (GCP preferable)
● Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic
Come Dive In
The DevOps Engineer will execute the tools and processes to enable DevOps.
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement to efficiently deliver high-quality solutions. The candidate should bridge the gap between Development and Operational teams, working with the development teams to meet acceptance criteria and gather and document the requirements. Candidates should be able to work in fast-paced,
multi-disciplinary environments.
As An DevOps Engineer, You Will
● Work in a dynamic, agile team environment developing excellent new applications.
● Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
● Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers, support teams, and other stakeholders
● Promote great Kubernetes and AWS platform design and quality
● Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications and processes
● Continuously analyzing and evaluating our systems, products, and methods for potential improvements.
Mandatory Skills:
● Experience on Linux based infrastructure
● Experience in ECS - Amazon services*
● Should have hands-on containerized Services
● Must know about AWS CI/CD pipeline.
● Must know DevOps concepts and Agile principles
● Knowledge of Git, Docker, and Jenkins
● Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code.
● Experience in using Automation Tools
● Must have experience in Test Driven Development environment setup.
● Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
We recognize that asking you to give 100% of yourself daily requires us to show you the love.
PERKS: what can we offer you?
● Bi-Yearly performance audits and appraisals
● The flexibility of working days/hours
● 5 working days/week (Mon to Fri) and added payout for working Saturday
● Recognition and Appreciation
● A plethora of industry exposure and self-growth opportunities
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- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Responsive, reliable and results oriented with the ability to execute on aggressive plans
- A background in software development, with experience of working in an agile product software development environment
- An understanding of modern deployment tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), workflow tools (Jira, Confluence) and practices (Agile (SCRUM), DevOps, etc.)
- Expert level experience with AWS tools, technologies and APIs associated with it - IAM, Cloud-Formation, Cloud Watch, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC etc.
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Strong DevOps skills across CI/CD and configuration management using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
- Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters using Terraform, Helm, Helm Charts
- Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to manage and work with teams and customers across the globe
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What we are looking for
A DevOps Engineer to join our team and provide consulting services to our clients, below is the technology stack we are interested in
Technical skills
- Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline. ( either using Jenkins or Azure DevOps )
- At least one AWS or Azure Certification
- Terraform Scripting
- Hands-on experience with git and source code management and release management.
- Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps principles and the Agile Frameworks.
- Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Gradle, Yaml, Ansible or puppet or chef.
- Working knowledge of build systems for various technologies like npm, maven etc.
- Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google cloud.
- Hands on Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
- Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues. Experience with working with ticketing tools (Jira & Service now)
- A programming language like Java, Go , NodeJS is a nice to have.
- Work Permit for United Kingdom ( tier 2 visa ) total duration of visa will be 5 years ( first 2 years and then 3 year extension)
- At the end of the 5 years you will be eligible for British Citizenship by applying for Indefinite leave to remain in the UK
- Learn new technologies - We won’t ever expect you to do the same thing day in day out; we want to
- give you the chance to explore the latest techniques to solve challenging technical problems and help
- you become the best developer you can be.
- Join a growing agile team that are consistently delivering.
- Technical Development Program
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the
basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Development and maintenance of Continuous Integration System on JENKINS.
- Build management for the planned major/minor releases
- Release process management and maintenance
- Enhancement and development of build/release system features.
Required Qualifications:
- 2 - 3 years relevant work experience in Jenkins / Scripting / C / Linux
- Expertise in scripting languages like a shell, python, etc
- Work experience in handling Make/CMake build systems
- Expertise in GIT source revision control
- Experience with Yocto build systems and recipes
Minimum 4 years exp
Skillsets:
- Build automation/CI: Jenkins
- Secure repositories: Artifactory, Nexus
- Build technologies: Maven, Gradle
- Development Languages: Python, Java, C#, Node, Angular, React/Redux
- SCM systems: Git, Github, Bitbucket
- Code Quality: Fisheye, Crucible, SonarQube
- Configuration Management: Packer, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- Deployment: uDeploy, XLDeploy
- Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, PCF, OpenShift
- Automation frameworks: Selenium, TestNG, Robot
- Work Management: JAMA, Jira
- Strong problem solving skills, Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good knowledge of Linux environment: RedHat etc.
- Good in shell scripting
- Good to have Cloud Technology : AWS, GCP and Azure