Job Description Summary

Sr Staff Build & Release Engineer is responsible for defining, designing and implementing the Build and Release strategy for a product family across all versions and releases. The scope can include multiple products at times. Provides the vision to understand, design and embed continuous integration process within SDLC. Seen as a technical leader.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for large and complex releases of a product and at times expands the scope across multiple concurrent releases.
• Own, manage and improve release process. Focuses on scale and efficiency. Deploys the right builds across environments.
• Manage key deliverables and mentors junior team members.
• Contribute to driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Work cross-functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams.
• Determine best practices and principles and promote them across the team.
  Demonstrate expert knowledge in developing and executing automated builds and scripts.
• Learn new build and releases techniques and methodologies and trains the team in the same.
• Work with developers and stakeholders to deliver quality software through the build and deployment system.
• Partner with and provides directions to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Use industry’s best practices to improve Build, Release and Continuous integration processes.
• Skilled at discovering problems and identifying solutions.
• Experience with writing tests based on requirements.
• Comfortable interacting with other teams and building networks.
• Experience as a build manager and CI that can troubleshoot build tool issues.
• Experience as Artifactory Admin.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting issues for team.
• Experience with software tool qualification.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• This role requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.

Desired Characteristics and Technical Expertise:

• Contributes in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.

• Experience with Python, Perl, TCL, SCADE, C, SIMICS, NPSS, ARM compiler, makefiles, and postscript.

• Expert in developing code for other developers to learn from.

Business Acumen
• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments.
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks.
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.

Leadership
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions.
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill.

Personal Attributes
• Able to work under minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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