Senior Release Engineer

Description:

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Release Services is a team responsible for end to end release processes including coordination, deployment and managing retrospectives of both internal and external products releases across the organization.

The Impact

This is an opportunity to serve in a vital role in our technology organization. In this role, you will utilize your strong analytical and leadership skills to help the team to deliver on both small and large projects. You will use your skills and experience to help improve release management and delivery processes of our internal & external platforms. You will be involved in planning and execution that will include working in all areas of internal applications & external client facing products.

The Role

You will own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of multiple releases across the enterprise. The releases can be inclusive of application updates, database updates, configuration updates & improvements, Projects and Programs. The Release Manager job function works collaboratively in an Agile environment with all participants in software development projects and is supportive of developers and testers as they set up their build dev/test environments.

What's In It For You

• Explore a highly rewarding career path with room for professional growth, recognition and rewards.
• Build and improve your skills by working with new technologies and adopting DevOps Principles.

Responsibilities

• Forward Plan the release windows and cycles across an organization
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the Release Management Assignments and change request backlog
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different scrum teams at different locations
• Participate in Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Produce Deployment documentation, Run Books and Implementation Plans
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Develop scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
• Participate in Change Approval Board meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
• Expert knowledge of VSTS/Azure DevOps for code configuration management
• Sound understanding of Agile & DevOps methodology.
• Must have excellent written & verbal communication