DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

Career Guidant Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team in Atlanta. This role focuses on build, deployment, and release management for large-scale web applications, requiring expertise in continuous integration and delivery processes. You will collaborate closely with development and QA teams to streamline operations and enhance automation. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to drive improvements in software delivery, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and teamwork, and make a significant impact on their development processes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and deployment processes.
• Strong knowledge of version control systems and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex application releases and improve automation.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance build and release practices.

Skills

Continuous Integration

Deployment Management

Build Automation

Maven

Jenkins

Version Control (GIT, SVN)

Scripting (Bash, Shell)

Database Management (Oracle, MySQL)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Docker

Chef

Job description

DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

Contract

Career Guidant is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Career Guidant is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

Responsibilities:

• SCM Continuous Integration / Delivery Build Team Engineer with experience in Application Service and Web Application Build, Deployment and Release Management and experience in establishing and maintaining development, testing and production environments rollouts.
• Using your technical expertise, you will manage complex application releases for development, QA, production and develop major improvements to tools and processes.
• You will provide support on builds and aim to make the builds and releases as automated as possible.
• Interact with development, QA team, and production support team to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• You must have a passion for automation and agile methods. Collaboration with developers and architects to refine build, test, and release practices across the organization.
• Support and improve our SCM/Build & Deployment tooling for continuous integration, automated testing, and automated self-service release management.
• Manage multiple concurrent releases/builds and deployments from development to production rollout.

Activities:

• Build, Deployment and Release Management for large scale Web Applications.
• Deploy built software artifacts to Development, QA, Integration, UAT, Staging, Load and Production environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot software runtime environment, provide development support and Incident support.
• Lead the rollout, enforcement and continuous improvement of team and enterprise standards.
• Practical Experience configuring Continuous Integration and/or Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Experience with one or more Continuous Integration tools: Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Nexus, Rundeck, CHEF.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of our configuration management software architecture.
• Design and implementation of tools to streamline SCM, Integration and QA processes.
• Define, implement and champion policies to significantly increase the efficiency of our software development/delivery process.
• Ensure Continuous Integration and Delivery through SDLC. Work with Development, QA and Operations to guarantee prompt, accurate, and repeatable delivery of the builds.
• Provide up-to-date and accurate documentation on the SCM environment and Process Automation tools.
• Work closely with Development and Quality Engineering teams.
• Participate in an agile development process from analysis of detailed or high-level product requirements through design, and quick test development, execution and results reporting.

Required Experience:

• Experience and hands-on knowledge of Maven, Dependency Management and Maven Release.
• Experience and hands-on knowledge of SVN (Subversion), Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye/Crucible.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery Rollouts throughout SDLC environment including production rollouts and post support and transitions to support team.
• Experience with Web Application Build, Deployment and Release Management.
• Build tools experience: Maven, Java and other non-Java languages.
• Experience in Confluence and JIRA.
• Expert knowledge of Version Control tools: Subversion, GIT (Stash).
• Expert knowledge of Scripting languages: Bash, Linux Unix Shell.
• Database knowledge such as Oracle/MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB is a plus.
• Familiar with Open Source tools, and comfortable with enhancing them.
• Experience with automated build and deployment systems and usages of tools such as Chef is a plus.
• Ruby, Python, Chef, Docker experience is a plus.
• Experienced in Linux/Unix administration and installation (e.g. CentOS 6+, RHEL 6+, other).

U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

This is a Full-Time Permanent job opportunity for you.

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