DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

Contract

Career Guidant is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Career Guidant is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

Responsibilities:

• SCM Continuous Integration / Delivery Build Team Engineer with experience in Application Service and Web Application Build, Deployment and Release Management and experience in establishing and maintaining development, testing and production environments rollouts.
• Using your technical expertise, you will manage complex application releases for development, QA, production and develop major improvements to tools and processes.
• You will provide support on builds and aim to make the builds and releases as automated as possible.
• Interact with development, QA team, and production support team to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• You must have a passion for automation and agile methods. Collaboration with developers and architects to refine build, test, and release practices across the organization.
• Support and improve our SCM/Build & Deployment tooling for continuous integration, automated testing, and automated self-service release management.
• Manage multiple concurrent releases/builds and deployments from development to production rollout.

Activities:

• Build, Deployment and Release Management for large scale Web Applications.
• Deploy built software artifacts to Development, QA, Integration, UAT, Staging, Load and Production environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot software runtime environment, provide development support and Incident support.
• Lead the rollout, enforcement and continuous improvement of team and enterprise standards.
• Practical Experience configuring Continuous Integration and/or Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Experience with one or more Continuous Integration tools: Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Nexus, Rundeck, CHEF.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of our configuration management software architecture.
• Design and implementation of tools to streamline SCM, Integration and QA processes.
• Define, implement and champion policies to significantly increase the efficiency of our software development/delivery process.
• Ensure Continuous Integration and Delivery through SDLC. Work with Development, QA and Operations to guarantee prompt, accurate, and repeatable delivery of the builds.
• Provide up-to-date and accurate documentation on the SCM environment and Process Automation tools.
• Work closely with Development and Quality Engineering teams.
• Participate in an agile development process from analysis of detailed or high-level product requirements through design, and quick test development, execution and results reporting.

Required Experience:

• Experience and hands-on knowledge of Maven, Dependency Management and Maven Release.
• Experience and hands-on knowledge of SVN (Subversion), Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye/Crucible.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery Rollouts throughout SDLC environment including production rollouts and post support and transitions to support team.
• Experience with Web Application Build, Deployment and Release Management.
• Build tools experience: Maven, Java and other non-Java languages.
• Experience in Confluence and JIRA.
• Expert knowledge of Version Control tools: Subversion, GIT (Stash).
• Expert knowledge of Scripting languages: Bash, Linux Unix Shell.
• Database knowledge such as Oracle/MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB is a plus.
• Familiar with Open Source tools, and comfortable with enhancing them.
• Experience with automated build and deployment systems and usages of tools such as Chef is a plus.
• Ruby, Python, Chef, Docker experience is a plus.
• Experienced in Linux/Unix administration and installation (e.g. CentOS 6+, RHEL 6+, other).

U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

This is a Full-Time Permanent job opportunity for you.

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