Release Engineer

Role: Release Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

W2 Contract

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Must-Have Skills

AWS

CI/CD tools

Release Management

Stakeholders

Description

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.