Release Engineer

The Release Engineer has overall ensuring releases are applied to the various environments based on agreed SLAs. These releases include application changes, Infrastructure changes, operating system patches etc

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Operational Management

1. Maintain and monitor non-production environments that are reliable and efficient

2. Create automated software integration and deployment processes

3. Design, document, implement and maintain automated processes

4. Continually evaluate tools and technologies to improve the overall release process

5. Work in close coordination with development teams to automate the delivery of releases

6. Monitor build requests and ensure they are completing successfully

7. Ensure release requests are completed in line with established SLAs

8. Ensures that releases operate as per expectations 

9. Ensures that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with a release

10. Manages the development of deliverables into production

11. Validates release notes for completeness and accuracy

12. Manages the deployment of deliverables to the test environment particularly guaranteeing that external dependent items are available

13. Responsible for preparation of non-production environments including refreshes etc. to ensure that the data is as close to production as possible.

14. Responsible for tracking which releases are currently applied to various environments and producing reports on same as requested.

15. Responsible for recommending appropriate environments for releases to be applied to in non-production environments to reduce errors and conflicts with multiple releases being applied at the same time.

16. Weekly Release Reporting

17. Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

18. Implement/Manage/Improve Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) tooling.

19. Implement and maintain Application Automation.

20. Implement and maintain Infrastructure Automation. 

Strategy and Innovation

1. Recommend process improvements and alternative to roll out tools and processes.

2. Identify new tools and technologies to develop release streams and builds. 

Capacity Planning

1. Ensure environments are appropriately managed to support increased workloads post-patching.

2. Ensure work is distributed across the team to ensure that SLAs are met

EDUCATION, TRAINING & WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field from a recognised tertiary institution.

• Three (3) years’ experience in similar capacity

• Sound knowledge of a wide range of network, database and systems administration principles

• Excellent programming skills and experience

• Ability to manage software infrastructure & configurations

• Verse on ITIL principles

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

• Appreciation of software development lifecycle

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Structured thinking