Sr. Release & Configuration Engineer in Foster City, CA

Please respond back to sateesh@protegellc.com or call me on 703-957-5309.

Job Title: Sr. Release & Configuration Engineer

Location: Foster City, CA

Duration : 6+ Months

Interview : Phone and F2F

Key responsibilities include: 

• Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of agile scrum teams. 

• Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply build and release engineering best practices 

• Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures 

• Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications 

• Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 deployment support across multiple V.me non-production environments 

• Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running 

• Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem 

• Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development Operations, and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment support 

• Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security. 

• Participate and determine root cause for service failure and support escalation 

• Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific deployment problem 

• Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools 

• Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production 

• Champion and Evangelize the vision for the CM and Release Strategy 

• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team 

• Implement metrics, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for the process and the team 

REQUIREMENTS 

These are the basic requirements for this role 

 - 6+ years of experience in release and configuration management roles 

- Build and troubleshoot build issues in java applications 

- Exposure to CHEF (preferable) and Puppet 

- Linux and Shell Scripting and Automation 

- Advance knowledge with one or more build management tools (Anthill, BuildForge, CruiseControl, Bamboo, Hudson, etc.) 

- Expert knowledge of CM concepts (codelines, branching, merging, integration, versioning, etc.) 

- Experience with structured build files/tools (ant, Maven) 

- Experience with a scripting language (Perl, Python, bash) 

- Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX; 

- Should have working experience with monitoring tools like OPPNET and/or SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes. 

- Experience in working with Oracle and/or MySQL DB's 

- Experience with Java web environments (Websphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat) 

- Experience with multiple software version control systems (GIT, Subversion, ClearCase, Perforce, etc.) 

- Experience with Change Management tools (Jira, ClearQuest, etc.) 

- Good attention to detail, someone who takes ownership and pride in all work. 

- Good written and oral communication skills. 

- Demonstrated ability to work with and manage distributed teams. 

- Passion for quality in CM processes 

- Thrives in a fast paced environment with continuously changing priorities 

- Ability to move forward given ambiguous conditions 

- Strong analytical and organizational skills. 

- Results driven; does what it takes to get the job done and naturally goes the extra mile 

- Ability to manage multiple deployments simultaneously and prioritize time with minimal supervision 

- Complete understanding of the software development life-cycle. 

- Experience with agile software development methodologies (scrum, xp, etc.)  

Thanks & Regards

Sateesh | Sr. Technical Recruiter

Protege, LLC.

12020 Sunrise Valley Dr, Suite 100, Reston VA 20191

Email: sateesh@protegellc.com | Gtalk: recruiter.sateesh

Office: 703-957-5309; Fax: 877 481 9005

Visit us at: www.protegellc.com

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