Senior Build & Release Engineer – CI/CD Automation

SmartRecruiters, Inc.

Alexandria (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

6 weeks PTO

401(k) retirement plan

Health/Dental/Vision/Life benefits

Training time off

Casual dress code

Lunch & Learn programs

Company events with lunches

Job summary

Steel Thread Software, Inc. is seeking a Build and Release Engineer for a fast-paced startup environment serving commercial and government clients.

The role focuses on automating and optimizing the software build and deployment system to reduce time from commit to customer, with scalable release pipelines and best-practice adherence. You will build and maintain the pipeline, train developers, and push continuous release improvements while collaborating with QA and Dev teams to elevate automation

Qualifications

Experience with testing, development, build and release tools.
Experience with Puppet, Sonar, Jenkins, etc.
Experience of writing Java.
Experience developing software build and deploy plans and automation tools.
Experience with Ant or Maven.
Experience with Continuous Integration and with Continuous Delivery; CD/CI for web apps preferred.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the build and deploy pipeline environment.
Coach and train developers on best practices for efficiency.
Automate release to manufacturing steps and optimize for continuous release at scale.
Raise build and deploy infra issues and suggest improvements.
Liaise with Build & Deploy Engineers across teams on common issues.
Develop code for internal and external web applications and push automation forward.