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Release Engineer/IT Software Engineer
KnackHook, LLCChicago, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Jul 2026
Why This Role Stands Out
This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape critical software releases and gain valuable DevOps experience with AWS and Python. You'll thrive here if you excel at coordinating complex projects and have a solid background in CI/CD pipelines and Agile methodologies. Apply today to join a dynamic team and advance your career.
Quick Overview
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
Release enginer/IT Software Engineer
Contract
Chicago, IL, USA hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA hybrid
Required Education/Experience:
Bachelor''s Degree with 10+ years of experience
Or
Master''s degree with 8+ years of experience
Required Qualifications:
• 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
• Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
• Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.
Required Technical Skills:
• 8+ years of IT release or delivery management.
• 6-7+ 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
• Execution, AWS/Cloud Agents/Infrastructure..Etc.
Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:
• Consistent job hopping/ choppy tenure
• If candidate is not local but open to relocation on their dime and being there in office day 1, please make that clear on the resume.
• Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
• If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
• WD will look at candidates who are local over those who are open to relocating on their own dime.
Bachelor''s Degree with 10+ years of experience
Or
Master''s degree with 8+ years of experience
Required Qualifications:
• 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
• Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
• Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.
Required Technical Skills:
• 8+ years of IT release or delivery management.
• 6-7+ 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
• Execution, AWS/Cloud Agents/Infrastructure..Etc.
Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:
• Consistent job hopping/ choppy tenure
• If candidate is not local but open to relocation on their dime and being there in office day 1, please make that clear on the resume.
• Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
• If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
• WD will look at candidates who are local over those who are open to relocating on their own dime.
Skills
AWS
Scrum
Agile
Azure
BDD
CloudFormation
Cucumber
Git
Python
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