Job Title: Release Engineer

Duration: Long term

Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week)

Looking for Release Engineer with minimum 8 yrs of experience

Typical task breakdown:

• As a Release Engineer/Co-Ordinator, you will be responsible for monitoring CI/CD pipelines for smooth and successful builds and develop the UAT and production release plans.
• You will also be coordinating with important stakeholders such as QA, Infrastructure, Product and Business managers to resolve build problems, determine the release feature set and gathering of release documentation.
• Successful candidate also will perform DevOps role as secondary role. As a DevOps role successful candidate will demonstrate competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, Lambda.
• Proficient in Python programming language and tech stacks

Interaction with team:

Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team. Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.

Work environment:

Position is required to be hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week.

Education & Experience Required:

- Degree with 10+ years experience

- Master degree with 8+ years experience

Technical Skills

(Required)

• 5+ years of IT release or delivery management.
• 3+ experience with CICD pipelines, GIT and DevOps tools and technologies
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills Top candidates will also have:
• Experience in/with the following: o Azure DevOps o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) with multiple other teams as a Scrum Master or Program Manager or Project Co-Ordinator
• Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following, o AWS Cloud, automated CICD and BDD with Cucumber.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science
• Candidates need to be flexible on working hours.

Soft Skills (Desired)

High Communication skills