Release Engineer

Role: Release Engineer

Duration: 8+ Months

Location: Denver, CO

Requirements:

• In depth knowledge of application development, and application design.
• Demonstrated a high level of understanding in development concepts, technical designs, application specifications and system integration.
• Experience selecting technologies to incorporate into an established release management tech stack.
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment and DevOps principles.
• Experience with Azure DevOps tool suite is strongly preferred: Boards, Wiki, Repos, Pipeline, Test Plan, Artifacts, etc.
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
• Effective time management. Must be able to prioritize and multi-task effectively.
• Passion for enterprise-level agile development, problem solving, the ability to quickly learn new concepts, and must be able to interact with all levels of technical and business teams.
• Team player, self-motivated and able to work collaboratively across organizations.

Duties:

Contractor, will be working on the Department of Human Services Trails Product and shall provide the Services as follows:

• Serve as gatekeeper, responsible for accepting all code or stopping production; ensure knowledge documents are submitted and meet OIT standards. Facilitates emergency releases from production incident identification to incident closure after release.
• Responsible for change, release, and production environment management processes including integrated process design, optimization, and strategy.
• Plan, coordinate, execute & complete all Production Release windows with minimal service disruption & any unplanned downtimes/service degradation.
• Coordinate and maintain deployment schedules for multiple environments to include Pre-Production and Production.
• Identify and automate manual processes necessary to support code promotion and deployment;
• Responsible for all release activities including planned and unplanned releases; ensuring minimal disruption to service delivery; escalations; changes and change management; processes, knowledge management; holding regular performance reviews. Implement key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Define and continuously improve enterprise processes and standards in collaboration with Release, foster collaboration, automation and adoption of DevOps practices within all steps of Secure System Development Lifecycle.
• Provides high-quality services and support to customers, OIT partners, and project teams rather than imposing requirements and constraints.
• Approving release management standards.
• Selecting appropriate release management techniques for a multitude of varying products and technologies.