DevOps / Release Engineer

Watertown, MA

Company Name :IBA Infotech LLC

Type : Contract

Primary Skills : Microsoft SQL Server, Go, JBoss, SDLC, Maven, Kubernetes, Git, Docker, Shell Scripting, Python, Jenkins, JIRA, AWS

Location : Watertown

CTC : DOE

Job Description:

  • Work closely with engineering, operations and testing teams to assure robust code line management, environment availability and smooth production deployments.
  • Automate and streamline processes to support continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • Serve the primary owner of build/release tools and processes and drive improvements to ease release management tasks.
  • Support environment monitoring and availability.

 

Accountabilities:

  • Define best practices for source code control, branching, and environment/release management.
  • Build code management tools for internal use to support software engineering best practices.
  • Manage complex branching/merging of repositories to support multiple development streams.
  • Deploy releases to various environments (Integration/test/Staging/Production, etc.).
  • Work closely with engineering, operations and testing teams to identify the release management needs.
  • Evangelize SDLC processes for infrastructure change.

 

Position Requirements:

  • B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in a release engineering or DevOps position, ideally working with SaaS offerings or public facing web applications.
  • Intimate knowledge of source control systems, specifically with Git/GitHub, and best practices for branching and deployment.
  • Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration with experience in tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Solid understanding of build tools such as Jenkins Pipeline, Travis, Maven.
  • Expert knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, Go.
  • Experience with Agile, Scrum and DevOps concepts. Ability to explain and evangelize cloud computing best practices.
  • Strong background in Linux / Unix administration.
  • Experience with cloud providers like GCE or AWS is a plus.
  • Experience with MS SQL Server database, Atlassian tools including JIRA, Wildfly/JBOSS.
  • Understanding of monitoring systems and log aggregators such as ELK.