Job Description Summary
Responsible for Design and Development of CI and CD pipelines for multiple Grid Software Products into SIRE (Solution Integration Reference Environments) as part of the Grid Solution Test & Cert Team. Works independently and contributes to the immediate team and to other teams across business. You will also contribute to design discussions.
As a Staff Build & Release Engineer, you will be responsible for providing build and release strategy for highly complex as well as parallel and concurrent releases for a Software Products. Manages Continuous Code Integration pipelines. Works independently and is seen as a Technical Leader. The role demonstrates deep understanding of concurrent software development, its
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effect on build management and releasing the builds across versions and environment.
Job Description
In this role, you will:
- Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for large and complex releases of multiple products into SIRE environments
- 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, onboard new joiners and coach interns
- Contribute in 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 principals and promotes 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 direction to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
- Use industry best practices to improve Build, Release and Continuous integration processes
- Translate requirements / vision into prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards
- Work with product line leaders and architects to develop multi generation software technology plans
- Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
- Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
- Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
- Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
- Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results
- Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge
- Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
- Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
- Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
- Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using technology chosen
- Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness
Education Qualification
- For roles outside USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.
- For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience 8 years
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or in STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience
- Strong Knowledge and mastery of tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Python, Golang, Linux Scripting.
- Proven experience in the deployment and management of infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of cloud services such as AWS, Azure, code and version management tools such as Git.
- Strong knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).
- Should have knowledge in Ansible, Terraform.
- Experience with Agile software development, project management methodologies
- Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, Security mechanisms.
- Experience with Linux and Windows, good knowledge
- Having knowledge in Prometheus, Grafana, Istio service mesh
- Knowledge of transferring the artifacts to different environments.
- Should be a quick learner with good communication skills.
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 perspectives
Leadership:
- Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members
- Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
- Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct
- Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives
Personal Attributes:
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective team building and problem solving abilities
- Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit
- 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
Note
Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes