DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

Career Guidant Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Guidant Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage and automate build and deployment processes for large-scale applications. The role involves working closely with development and quality assurance teams to enhance SCM tools and deliver high-quality software.

Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in Continuous Integration and Delivery, as well as knowledge of build tools like Maven and Jenkins. This full-time permanent position focuses on automation and improving deployment practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with Continuous Integration tools and processes.
• Hands-on knowledge of build and release management.
• Expertise in version control tools and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Manage application build and release processes.
• Automate builds and streamline deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams.

Skills

Continuous Integration and Delivery

Automation

Build Tools (Maven, Jenkins)

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Version Control (GIT, SVN)

Tools

Jenkins

JIRA

Confluence

Docker

Chef

Job description

DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

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.

Type: Contract

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 build 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, providing 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 the SDLC environment, including production rollouts, post-support and transitions to the 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 usage of tools such as Chef is a plus.
• Ruby, Python, Chef, Docker experience is a plus.
• Experienced 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.

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